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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Hunger for anthroposophy?

The relationship between Rudolf Steiner's views and today's dominant forms of educational and scientific thinking. Questions for Wolfgang Müller,…
The relationship between Rudolf Steiner's views and today's dominant forms of educational and scientific thinking. Questions for Wolfgang Müller, journalist with NDR for many years and author of »Zumutung Anthroposophie«.
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Education for Sustainable Development: An assessment of the current situation

How can we empower our children and ourselves to live a sustainable life?
How can we empower our children and ourselves to live a sustainable life?
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Christian Breme,

The dignity of shame

Standing in front of a class eight, I spoke about initiation rituals among indigenous peoples: "It can be that you leave the village as a 14-year-old…
Standing in front of a class eight, I spoke about initiation rituals among indigenous peoples: "It can be that you leave the village as a 14-year-old child, and after a few weeks of strict trials you return as a man or woman and are an adult, an…
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Relationship and Sex Education. Overview with Closer Look at Puberty

Sex education is not a separate subject at Waldorf schools, even if special lesson sequences are as a rule repeatedly devoted to it at all age levels.…
Sex education is not a separate subject at Waldorf schools, even if special lesson sequences are as a rule repeatedly devoted to it at all age levels. Due to its complexity, it is a cross-curricular component of the overall educational mission.
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Karin Michael, Tomáš Zdražil,

“We need a complete reform of the education landscape”

Second round table on the consequences of coronavirus in Stuttgart.
Second round table on the consequences of coronavirus in Stuttgart.
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Martyn Rawson,

Transforming materials and the maker

From an evolutionary perspective tools and the social practices they were embedded in and how these responded to the environments people dwelled in,…
From an evolutionary perspective tools and the social practices they were embedded in and how these responded to the environments people dwelled in, were crucial to the emergence of human societies.
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Maria Lyons,

Why can’t you just sit still?

Most parents at some point in their child’s life have given in to sheer frustration and cried out ‘Why can’t you just sit still?’ This is the question…
Most parents at some point in their child’s life have given in to sheer frustration and cried out ‘Why can’t you just sit still?’ This is the question van Dort addresses in her short guide to movement and play in child development.
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Jill Taplin,

Movement: Your Child’s First Language

I am pleased to be able to review another book from by Sally Goddard Blythe. Her previous publications, such as What Babies and Children Really Need…
I am pleased to be able to review another book from by Sally Goddard Blythe. Her previous publications, such as What Babies and Children Really Need and The Well Balanced Child, have proved informative and helpful to parents, carers and teachers…
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Frances Hutchinson,

Free, Equal and Mutual: Rebalancing Society for the Common Good

Twenty chapters by thirteen individual authors presenting their views on practical implementation of Rudolf Steiner’s societal vision present the…
Twenty chapters by thirteen individual authors presenting their views on practical implementation of Rudolf Steiner’s societal vision present the reviewer with a daunting task.
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Valerie Taylor,

12 really essential Qualities

This book uses ‘12 essential qualities’, or values, to go on a journey in parenting children. The author encourages us to firstly look at the habit…
This book uses ‘12 essential qualities’, or values, to go on a journey in parenting children. The author encourages us to firstly look at the habit patterns we have, both of word and deed, and how appropriate they are and, where necessary, to…
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