Given the current lockdown and the enforced need for distance learning at home, it is worth thinking about what the principles of learning are from a Waldorf perspective. In the past few years I have
… that all subjects in school contribute in making young people aware of this, not only within their immediate surroundings, but in relation to all the cultural and political connections they are involved in. And…
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
The Black Lives Matter movement has given us much to think about, as have Covid-19, Fridays for Future, #Me Too, 9/11, the digital age and globalization generally. Waldorf education is not
Dorit Winter calls us to question our authority, to strive for objectivity, to remain firm and thus to practice good habits. If we achieve these goals, today’s young people will be ready to face the
“Jack and the Beanstalk” is David Mitchell's point of departure to explore meditation, resilience, cooperation and the inner tasks of teachers. Concrete examples illustrate some of the obstacles we
… due to its historical context, features both the typical and the individual, and this is much more immediately comprehensible than a modern novel. The medieval worldview is fixed and unified. Here the search…
Schools today are asked to strengthen the young people's self so that they are able to emerge from adolescence as self-directed, emotionally stable, social beings; a task which once belonged to the
The US American pediatrician and Waldorf teacher Susan R.Johnson explains the fatal consequences of watching television and playing computer games on child-development. Drawing from brain research,
What began with a football World Cup in 2006 and Waldorf Youth Festival in Stuttgart ended for some in the Lebanon war. A group of students could not travel back to their home country. This was the