The tenth World Teachers' Conference takes place in Dornach from 28th March to 2nd April 2016. Teachers and educators from all over the world will be exploring current educational questions under the…
The author describes the soul life of twelve-year-olds at the transition from childhood into adolescence. She considers the teachers' tasks in grade six to eight, how the Waldorf curriculum answers…
Katherine Estember, the initiator of Tuburan Institute, quit her job because of her desire to mainstream a better, more nurturing way of teaching and learning. Together with a colleague she opened…
So-called Child Study or Child Observation is a central aspect of Steiner Waldorf schools, curative schools and institutions worldwide. Why is it so important to observe children today? How do we…
Silviah Njagi is a kindergarten teacher at the Nairobi Waldorf School in Kenya. She has been working with 4 to 6 year olds for the past 15 years and is currently involved in the East African Waldorf…
In 2012, around 58 billion text messages were sent in Germany alone (i); globally there were about 7 trillion messages sent and the figure is expected to rise to 9.4 trillion in 2016. (ii) People in…
Whenever the consequences of media use are discussed, the discussion usually centres on the effect on the consumer. People focus a lot less on the effect on the producer, particularly on the…
Technology frees people from certain tasks, but there is always a danger that the corresponding skill might be lost as well, just like a muscle which weakens when it is not used.
When my daughter was five, she explained to my wife how our fax machine works. She had never sent a fax, she had only sometimes watched her dad sending one. This anecdote seems rather nostalgic by…
Children in the early years of formal schooling should work with materials which activate all the senses, from smell to colour to touch. This is deeply engrained in the methods and traditions of…