Waldorf explained

Issue 09/24

Touching the Universe From One Side

All parents whose children learn to play an instrument are familiar with the question of what the point is of being able to play the violin, cello or piano. Our author has three children and quotes a dialog with her eldest son here. In it, she has expressed a lot of beautiful thoughts that we strongly recommend to all parents affected by similar conflicts to read.

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Waldorf Education in the Jungle

Samira Fürmetz reports about her internship at a Thai jungle school. When everything that is usually part of the idea of school is missing, what do…
Samira Fürmetz reports about her internship at a Thai jungle school. When everything that is usually part of the idea of school is missing, what do you do? And is it then still “school”?
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The Art of Making Music

In Waldorf education, the use of musical instruments already begins in kindergarten. The author is a Waldorf teacher and instrument maker and…
In Waldorf education, the use of musical instruments already begins in kindergarten. The author is a Waldorf teacher and instrument maker and describes elementary experiences with a range of Choroi instruments in the first and second…
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Permanence in Change

Class teacher Hiltrud Kamolz takes great pleasure in creating the seasonal table and incorporates the seasons daily in short narratives at the…
Class teacher Hiltrud Kamolz takes great pleasure in creating the seasonal table and incorporates the seasons daily in short narratives at the beginning of class in the form of a meaningful story. The story can be entirely focused on the seasonal…
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The Image in Education

One of the fundamental features of Waldorf education is the work with images. Language can create images in people that remain powerful and…
One of the fundamental features of Waldorf education is the work with images. Language can create images in people that remain powerful and unforgettable. Christoph Wiechert describes how parents and teachers can use them for successful education.
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Archetypes of human existence in the course of the year

The cycle of festivals of the year not only reflects astronomical events such as the solstice or the equinox. Natural events evoke soul and spiritual…
The cycle of festivals of the year not only reflects astronomical events such as the solstice or the equinox. Natural events evoke soul and spiritual experiences which are expressed through pictorial narratives. Religion and class teacher Stefan…
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Images grow with you

Friederike Gläsener explains why pictorial teaching shapes the soul and stimulates its development. Images are mobile, alive, changeable, individual…
Friederike Gläsener explains why pictorial teaching shapes the soul and stimulates its development. Images are mobile, alive, changeable, individual and never quite finished. They create meaning, which does not diminish with growing understanding of…
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Information literacy as an educational task

Media education in Waldorf schools ideally begins on the first day of school. For the author thinks that the anthroposophical understanding of the…
Media education in Waldorf schools ideally begins on the first day of school. For the author thinks that the anthroposophical understanding of the human being and media education are not contradictory. In his opinion, age-appropriate teaching that…
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The head needs hands and feet

Lisa's feet have been marvelling since she climbed out of the car barefoot. They feel coolness, gunge, moistness, softness, darkness in some way. Then…
Lisa's feet have been marvelling since she climbed out of the car barefoot. They feel coolness, gunge, moistness, softness, darkness in some way. Then something firmer, spiky, needle-like, warmer, stony, softer again, dry, huge, tart, warm, bright. A…
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"We would like to have grades so we know where we stand."

Do grade reports really help to find our position?
Do grade reports really help to find our position?
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Time for media parents' evenings?

For many years, Waldorf schools have been dealing with the question of what exactly is meant by "media literacy", how it comes about and what can and…
For many years, Waldorf schools have been dealing with the question of what exactly is meant by "media literacy", how it comes about and what can and should be done for it in school. Existing beliefs about the necessary maturity and the real,…
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