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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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Waldorf education. Yesterday's future – (II): The beauty of revolution

How can Waldorf education fulfil its central task for the future and become an open gateway for pupils in our uncertain present and future? In the…
How can Waldorf education fulfil its central task for the future and become an open gateway for pupils in our uncertain present and future? In the second part of a three-part series, Walter Riethmüller argues in favour of re-reading Rudolf Steiner's…
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Rethinking and Redesigning Waldorf curricula

The Waldorf curriculum is not a piece of museum art, preserved and curated, but an ongoing process. In the UK, a database was therefore created into…
The Waldorf curriculum is not a piece of museum art, preserved and curated, but an ongoing process. In the UK, a database was therefore created into which, on the one hand, elements of the Waldorf curriculum including their academic justification…
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Waldorf education. Yesterday's future – (I): Nietzsche's lion

How can Waldorf education fulfil its central task for the future and become an open gateway for pupils in our uncertain present and future? This…
How can Waldorf education fulfil its central task for the future and become an open gateway for pupils in our uncertain present and future? This three-part series by Walter Riethmüller deals with an educational provision for circumstances not yet…
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Mindful Institutions

Sexual violence in schools must not be covered up; it requires education, a safeguarding concept and good communication. Kirsten Heberer, an expert in…
Sexual violence in schools must not be covered up; it requires education, a safeguarding concept and good communication. Kirsten Heberer, an expert in violence prevention, sexual abuse and discrimination, explains how schools can become mindful and…
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Communication – The Basis for Non-Violence

Successful communication is unlikely, social scientist Niklas Luhmann once said. However, it is urgently necessary for non-violent coexistence. School…
Successful communication is unlikely, social scientist Niklas Luhmann once said. However, it is urgently necessary for non-violent coexistence. School social worker Susann Wartmann shares her critical observations and thoughts on communication in…
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Platzhalter
By Editorial Staff, April 2023,

A brief history of Erziehungskunst

In October 1927 the bimonthly Zur Pädagogik Rudolf Steiners is published for the first time as the organ of the Verein für ein freies Schulwesen…
In October 1927 the bimonthly Zur Pädagogik Rudolf Steiners is published for the first time as the organ of the Verein für ein freies Schulwesen (Association for Free Schools) in Stuttgart. The editor-in-chief is Dr Caroline von Heydebrand, an…
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Platzhalter
By Angelika Lonnemann, April 2023,

Working for Good Schools

The German Association of Waldorf Schools (BdFWS) is the publisher of Erziehungskunst. The member institutions currently comprise 253 schools with…
The German Association of Waldorf Schools (BdFWS) is the publisher of Erziehungskunst. The member institutions currently comprise 253 schools with around 90,000 pupils and 37 training centres. They are autonomous but bound by the statutes and…
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Platzhalter
Angelika Lonnemann,

Come On In

When I first came to Wagenburgstraße in Stuttgart and saw the house with the number 6, I was very surprised about how small the house is where the…
When I first came to Wagenburgstraße in Stuttgart and saw the house with the number 6, I was very surprised about how small the house is where the German Association of Waldorf Schools (BdFWS) has its home. An association that looks after 253…
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Platzhalter
Sven Saar,

Waldorf worldwide – where is the centre?

Should Waldorf curricula in other countries be guided by a European ideal? Does such a thing exist at all? And what can European Waldorf schools learn…
Should Waldorf curricula in other countries be guided by a European ideal? Does such a thing exist at all? And what can European Waldorf schools learn from other cultures? Sven Saar, who works internationally in teacher training, looks at questions…
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Waldorf Diversity

When I took my youngest daughter to kindergarten for the first time, two girls, about four years old, came running up, pointed at her and called out,…
When I took my youngest daughter to kindergarten for the first time, two girls, about four years old, came running up, pointed at her and called out, "We will never let you play with us!" My maternal heart bled. A short time later, another, older…
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