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Geometric shapes, AI and the creativity of young people and trained musicians – these are the components of a project in Potsdam that has resulted in a unique symphony. Classes six and seven from the Freie Waldorfschule Werder/Havel also helped…

«Do atoms really exist?» This question makes you pause and think. In an innovative project, a physicist and a chemist open up new paths to understanding atoms for students and teachers. Using modern technology, they immerse themselves in the world of…

We share our earth with all the other people who live on it, and we only have this one. Class teacher Nina Luckner wants to convey this to her students. To do this, she combined four subjects and, among other things, built globes out of balloons and…

«What if I would have been on the other side?» Noor Khatib-Thorn asked herself this question as a little girl in Jerusalem. Today, she is an English teacher at the Intercultural Waldorf School in Mannheim. In her lessons, the woman with Palestinian…

Why is the class eight play part of the Waldorf curriculum? Our author, a teacher, explains based on the example of Michael Ende's Momo which she performed with her class, which processes are tiggered by such a large stage project and how they enable…

As one of the oldest crafts in the world, basket weaving is an integral part of the ninth grade curriculum. However, tradition alone is not enough to justify its existence. In her article, our author Hiltrud Kamolz explains how adolescents come into…

Pupils at a Hamburg Waldorf school immerse themselves in Russian lessons. In doing so, they not only discover a new language, but also valuable lessons about tolerance and respect. Our author explains how learning a language can become a commitment…

As part of his year project, 17-year-old Waldorf pupil Ilian Rosenbruch launched a weather balloon he had built himself into the stratosphere to explore the secrets of the weather. However, the launch brings more challenges than expected: official…

What is the state of resilience among teachers at Waldorf schools? This was the subject of a study conducted by Alanus University around ten years ago. Our author Jürgen Peters outlines the results and relates them to the current situation.

Alienation from nature, loneliness and loss of meaning are linked to the threefold human constitution: body, soul and spirit. The consequences of neglected human needs are reflected in the current health crisis as part of the civilisational crisis,…

The Moving Classroom is one of the Waldorf school concepts that is attracting increasing attention in school and inclusive education, but is controversial within Waldorf’s own ranks. Children, parents and teachers in lower school are easy to…

Homework and assignments finished in no time at all? Many pupils and some teachers have been using it for quite some time, the ChatGPT software. Robert Neumann is a lecturer in media education and other subjects at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart –…

When children start school, they should have the following skills: attentiveness, impulse control, independence, cooperation skills and a sense of time. From this finding, the concept of the Moving Classroom emerged in the 1990s, which is also…

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…

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.

Martyn Rawson, Albert Schmelzer,

How can anti-racism be anchored in the curriculum of Waldorf education so that pupils are sensitised to exclusion and defamation? In addition to generally making empathy part of education, the authors advocate, among other things, addressing racial…

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…

Do grade reports really help to find our position?

In March, our class visited the Holocaust memorial in Bergen-Belsen together with class 10 of our school. The trip was part of the curriculum for class 10, who were studying the Nazi period and the Holocaust in their history main lesson. Because we…

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,…

War in Europe. This was unimaginable for most of us until Russia's attack on Ukraine. Just as the war of aggression in Europe has shaken us adults, it has also made the pupils, children and young people pause in their everyday lives.

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

As a special feature at the Daglfinger Waldorf School there is a "Blaue Reiter" main lesson for our two class 7s right at the beginning of the school year. We start the colourful autumn with a trip to the artist towns of Kochel and Murnau. After an…

Motivated by the Basel school's concept of relationship studies and as a teacher of a class 8, I planned an anthropology and relationship studies main lesson together with a midwife which I carried out in 2019. I took an in-depth look at the sex…

According to Gert Biesta, all education must pursue three goals: socialisation, qualification and individuation. In every teaching unit I want to experience, as a learner, how I can better integrate into my social environment, I want to acquire new…

Christian Breme,

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…

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.

Science

The Israeli scientist Yael Guter (Ph.D.) has studied the integration of pupils with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Waldorf schools in Israel. Waldorf education, based on anthroposophy, features multi-sensory learning and regular transitions, which…

Harald Lesch, born 1960, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, lecturer in natural philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. TV presenter for programmes such as "alpha Centauri", "Leschs Kosmos" or the…

Historical

Together with the economist and philosopher Philip Kovce, our author will take over the management of the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach in spring 2025. According to the editorial plan, the publication of Steiner's complete works should be…

In his day, Rudolf Steiner moved in a widely Jewish and very cosmopolitan milieu. Professor Tomáš Zdražil, who has been working in the field of the anthropological and anthroposophical foundations of Waldorf education at the Freie Hochschule…

When Rudolf Steiner introduced the ideas of the threefold social organism into the discussion on a new social order in 1917 – at the same time as the violent implementation of a new order in Russia – he took up the ideals of the French Revolution and…

At the end of 1918, a small initiative group of Stuttgart entrepreneurs led by Emil Molt decided to launch a campaign for social renewal. It met with Rudolf Steiner in Dornach at the end of January 1919 to prepare a concept for the project.

#waldorflernt

The colourful main lesson books with beautiful illustrations and polished texts are an integral part of education for Waldorf pupils in the first eight years as well as for their parents and teachers. In upper school, the traditional exercise books…

The European Commission's working group on schools recently published an important policy paper on blended learning.

The series #waldorflernt shows new, sometimes provocative perspectives on current issues that challenge the Waldorf movement to learn. This issue is about how pupils can learn to assess the quality of information and its sources.

Periphery

A hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner gave twelve lectures that have since become known as the Curative Education Course. Based on these lectures, numerous organizations for educational and social work with children, young people and adults with…

The writer Gunna Wendt initially had no connection to anthroposophy. Until she came across Ita Wegmann, the doctor and friend of Rudolf Steiner. It was through her that she became aware of Steiner's wife Marie and was fascinated by the moving…

Waldorf 360! A Global network for Middle School and High School teachers, starting in January 2024.

The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America publishes a magazine which is comparable to Erziehungskunst, published by the German Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen.

Constanza Kaliks, Goetheanum Pedagogical Section,

The six-day pedagogical conference held in July 2023 in the city of Juiz de Fora, in eastern Brazil, was a great inspiration. With 450 participating teachers, it was the largest conference in the history of the Brazilian Waldorf movement so far. The…

The World Child Forum (WCF) brought together young visionaries from around the world in an impressive premier event in Davos at the end of July. More than 120 young people took part in the open and flexible lab format, including participants from…

Calling It Like It Is: Uncovering and Dismantling Racism in the Waldorf Movement was first presented by Sunbridge in September 2020. The need for and interest in the event proved to be so widespread, it has been repeated to new audiences several…

Dorit Binder, Stefanie Keinki,

Since 2020, a team of highly committed people has been supporting Waldorf schools and other institutions in their process to become climate neutral. Until now, the CO2ero initiative was a project of the German Association of Waldorf Schools, but from…

The author and professor of Waldorf education in Mannheim, Ulrike Barth, has ensured that violence prevention is included in the curriculum for students. She explains why this is important.

“No child is born racist”. In the village of Neve Shalom (Arabic: Wahat al-Salam) in Israel, where Jews, Muslims and Christians try to live and work together in peace and harmony, the author read this sentence on a poster. In the following article,…

Platzhalter

Bernhard Pörksen, born in 1969, is professor of media studies at Tübingen University. In 2008 he was voted “Professor of the Year” and honoured for his teaching. He has researched and written about scandals, truth and lies, and communication as an…

The International Campus Waldorf (ICW) is an academic network of universities and institutions worldwide that offer Waldorf teacher education in BA/MA programs and other educational pathways. In this context, the ICW provides an online platform for…

How do we come together again?

Axel Eichenberg,

The four-hammer signal sounds for the descent to level 8 at a depth of 826 metres. Three times twelve miners descend at a rate of nine metres per second.

Albert Vinzens,

When I think back to an event in an extreme situation that changed my personal relationship with heaven and earth forever, I go back in my mind forty years to the base of the El Capitan rock face in Yosemite Valley, California.

Bruno Sandkühler, Christine Arlt,

“Sabah Al-Kheer – Good morning, dear Selma! This is how the ten-year-old is greeted by her teacher Ahmed. Together with 30 other children, she is still a little tired as she sits in the classroom but she is looking forward to a varied day at school.…

Karin Michael, Tomáš Zdražil,

Second round table on the consequences of coronavirus in Stuttgart.

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