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Waldorf is a Pretzel

Our author is a mathematics and science teacher at the Freie Waldorfschule Magdeburg. He recently returned to Germany from China and views the Waldorf world with the benevolent gaze of someone who is familiar with different cultures.

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Raising Peace

Raising one's own children to be peaceful inhabitants of the world – many parents see this as an important task. Is this even possible in the face of…
Raising one's own children to be peaceful inhabitants of the world – many parents see this as an important task. Is this even possible in the face of our own countless inner demons, and in this violent and torn world to boot? On a Tuesday morning,…
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Food is full of life

These are dangerous times for good soil: more and more land is being built on or is threatened by erosion. In Germany alone, an area the size of 90…
These are dangerous times for good soil: more and more land is being built on or is threatened by erosion. In Germany alone, an area the size of 90 soccer fields is sealed every day. Yet soils are the focus of many of the United Nations' explicit…
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What is Biodynamic Farming?

It was ridiculed for a long time, repeatedly defamed as esoteric nonsense and yet became the blueprint for organic farming, which has long been…
It was ridiculed for a long time, repeatedly defamed as esoteric nonsense and yet became the blueprint for organic farming, which has long been regarded worldwide as a sustainable model for healthy nutrition: the Demeter biodynamic farming method.…
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Was Steiner a Racist?

Steiner does indeed make ugly, derogatory statements – very scattered throughout his work – about the people of Africa or the indigenous peoples of…
Steiner does indeed make ugly, derogatory statements – very scattered throughout his work – about the people of Africa or the indigenous peoples of America, for example. Some critical voices see the danger of such evaluations as inherent in his…
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Waldorf Education in the Context of Social Inequality

One in five children in Germany grows up in poverty. This means that children and young people are disproportionately affected by poverty compared to…
One in five children in Germany grows up in poverty. This means that children and young people are disproportionately affected by poverty compared to other age groups in society. This is accompanied by restrictions on educational pathways and…
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Far from the Ideal of the Workers' School

Across Germany, the proportion of people with a migration background is around 30 percent. In Waldorf schools, however, this figure is only around…
Across Germany, the proportion of people with a migration background is around 30 percent. In Waldorf schools, however, this figure is only around four percent. Erziehungskunst spoke to Susanne Piwecki and Christiane Adam about how this could be…
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Platzhalter

Universal spirit or dilettante

Steiner, the know-it-all: this is how it may appear from today's perspective. But first you should see that he actually — quite the opposite — started…
Steiner, the know-it-all: this is how it may appear from today's perspective. But first you should see that he actually — quite the opposite — started out extremely narrow and focused: his early works, from Truth and Science to The Philosophy of…
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Waldorf Schools Ask the World – An Idea in Tima and Space

A more than one hundred year old impulse with modern and innovative ideas - that is Waldorf education today. What began in 1919 with the first school…
A more than one hundred year old impulse with modern and innovative ideas - that is Waldorf education today. What began in 1919 with the first school in Stuttgart is now evident worldwide in new initiatives, ideas and concepts. There are many…
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Stockmar – A synthesis of color and wax for 100 years

Our author went in search of the people who not only supply Waldorf institutions with wax blocks, chalk, modeling wax and watercolours. His path led…
Our author went in search of the people who not only supply Waldorf institutions with wax blocks, chalk, modeling wax and watercolours. His path led him to the Stockmar company in Kaltenkirchen, around 40 kilometers north of Hamburg.
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What does Education Mean Today?

What do didactics, pedagogy and schools have to achieve today when artificial intelligence is able to take over most of the cognitive aspects? Our…
What do didactics, pedagogy and schools have to achieve today when artificial intelligence is able to take over most of the cognitive aspects? Our author looks at the history of Western education and the essential value of being touched.
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