The young Romanian writer Lavinia Braniste describes her experience of lockdown in her story “Corona has aged us all”. We are living in “a nebulous, confusing time” that no longer supports and…
Since the early 1980s, Waldorf has been a registered trademark. Trademarks have a strong brand recognition value and consistent quality, the latter especially when they are located in the premium…
I encounter a fellow human being. I perceive them as an other, a foreign self, but also equally as a being endowed with a self as much I am. This elementary perception of the foreign I happens…
Confronting the capacity for polarisation. The courage for transformation in middle school
When young people in middle school break free from the “gold background” of childhood and undergo strong transformations in their soul, they also challenge their teachers to transform themselves. The…
To say it from the outset: this work is based on a deeply and thoroughly researched and understood remembrance in the spirit. And it has another a special merit.
Among the adults, parents and teachers at Waldorf schools, the spectrum of attitudes and opinions on the pandemic measures is as diverse as it is in wider society. If this were not so, we would be…
Relationships above subjects. New forms of cooperation
This article draws on experiences of the first lockdown and shows a possible form of cooperation between teaching staff that has already been successfully implemented in several schools.
There is no one single formula. Team-teaching at the Michaeli School Cologne
The educational concept of the Michaeli School in Cologne was still something unique in the year 2000. At that time, only very few Waldorf schools shared the goal of being a diverse school open to…
“Making peace with nature” – with these four weighty words, UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, provided a clear direction in mid-February towards the necessary and unavoidable steps…
Dr Edwin Hübner, professor at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart – Seminar for Waldorf Pedagogy and author of several books on media education, has come to the following conclusion: online teaching has…