Lessons

Ausgabe 07-08/26

New Approaches to Learning

This is what high school classes can look like when learning is not primarily taught and assessed through the written word: project-based work, digital tools, and diverse forms of expression open up new avenues for young people’s development.

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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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In the footsteps of the "Der Blaue Reiter" group of artists

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…
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…
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"It could continue like this ...": What a young Waldorf teacher wishes for the future

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…
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…
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Life and love. A main lesson on life and sex education

According to Gert Biesta, all education must pursue three goals: socialisation, qualification and individuation. In every teaching unit I want to…
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…
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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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