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Ausgabe 07-08/26

Form drawing: Lines and Traces to the Self

In Waldorf education, form drawing is more than just an artistic exercise. Through movement, it guides the child toward an experience of order, rhythm, and space. Our author is conducting research in Brazil on form drawing in Waldorf classrooms and explores how this practice can be described not only from an educational perspective but also in light of medical and humanities perspectives. The focus is on movement and what it leaves behind: the trace.

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Boredom is a Long Wait

During the school break, our author experienced once again that boredom creates a space in which ideas suddenly flourish. In her article, she reveals…
During the school break, our author experienced once again that boredom creates a space in which ideas suddenly flourish. In her article, she reveals whether it really helps to spin around in circles on the floor, whether boredom causes gray hair to…
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Where the Clocks Tick Differently

A school bell, 45-minute lessons, a fixed class group – that's how school is known. In Windrather Tal in North Rhine-Westphalia, the teachers at the…
A school bell, 45-minute lessons, a fixed class group – that's how school is known. In Windrather Tal in North Rhine-Westphalia, the teachers at the school of the same name deliberately do without such classic features. In an interview with…
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Free Storytelling can be Learned

The two authors have been storytellers for many years and have been passing on their knowledge to interested parties at the Storytelling Academy in…
The two authors have been storytellers for many years and have been passing on their knowledge to interested parties at the Storytelling Academy in Bern and Dornach, Switzerland, since 2010. In this article, they share their experiences, their…
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More than a Workplace

Our author Luka Mescher never had any contact with people with disabilities – until he completed a social internship during eleventh grade. Luka…
Our author Luka Mescher never had any contact with people with disabilities – until he completed a social internship during eleventh grade. Luka deliberately chose a workshop for people with disabilities because he «wanted to experience something…
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Self-education Based on the World

In the lower and middle school at Waldorf schools, learning takes place in the protected space of the school. Skills are tested, tried out and…
In the lower and middle school at Waldorf schools, learning takes place in the protected space of the school. Skills are tested, tried out and practiced in the safety of the classroom. In the upper school, from ninth grade onwards, students are sent…
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Waldorf education and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
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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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