Neil Boland would like to focus on Waldorf education as an education for social justice, to explore how Rudolf Steiner phrased this a century ago and then consider how it can be approached in a twenty-first century context. What the author wants to encourage here is a wider conversation, wider debate on social justice within Waldorf education,...[more]

Thoughts on 'The First Teachers Course'* from Urs Dietler[more]

We can distinguish three types of children who challenge our social system for very different reasons. It is possible, however, that several categories overlap and combine, for example, premature birth disorders of the nerve-sense system with a pronounced disruption of social relationships in the family and a volitional temperament. The following...[more]

Thoughts on 'The First Teachers Course'* from Ben Cherry[more]

How do we find our way from a purely neuro-biological perspective to a fully human one? Disturbances of attention and activity and their associated social behaviors are the most common psychiatric diagnoses in children today in countries with a "Western” lifestyle. The following article (part 1) attempts to develop a differentiated understanding...[more]

Thoughts on 'The First Teachers Course'* from Ellen Fjeld Koettker[more]

Thoughts on 'The First Teachers Course'* from Prof. Dr. Jost Schieren[more]