Promoting curiosity
Curiosity is a wonder of the human mind. It goes to the heart of modernity, as a driving force for learning, novel insights and innovation, both for…
International Curriculum: Choosing story material
After almost 100 years of Waldorf pedagogy the question as how to adapt the curriculum to different places continues to be a challenge. Today we can…
Fundamental Aspects of Sports Lessons in the Waldorf School
Why do I practice certain movement sequences in class? How should they be practiced? What movement qualities do I train? What effect do they have on…
The Art and the Science of Classroom Management
Classroom Management- is there really any more to it than knowing where the scissors are kept? Or, how a teacher might get a class of children to line…
Learning to Take Your Life Into Your Own Hands
The film introduces „School as a Whole“, a topic by the Waldorf School movement. In the film ‹Tea(cher) Talk› by waldorf-resources.org, Waldorf…
Destroyed Soul Landscapes
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…
Polyhedric educational experiences
The main focus of this video is the recent development of the upper classes of the Scuola Novalis. The Libera Scuola Steiner-Waldorf “Novalis” is…
Googlification in the Classroom - The High-Tech Invasion of our Schools
The posters on the classroom wall say, ‘Dream!’ ‘Laugh!’ It seems ironic that these posters remind us of a childhood which is long gone. Some third…
1100 Schools and The Challenges of Teacher Education
Currently, there are 1100 Steiner Waldorf Schools worldwide. One of the challenges to do with this development is the education or professional…
Having 28 daughters. Waldorf Education in India
An interview with Manorama Kamineni, Sloka Waldorf School Hyderabad
Engaging (or not) with community
Neil Boland suggests that we scrutinize time, place and community. Does everyone experience a sense of belonging within the school? Which communities…
Waldorf: An education of its time?
To what degree is Waldorf education of its time? Is it contemporary? These questions are put forward by Neil Boland, senior lecturer at Auckland…
Possibilities for the Development of New Waldorf Festivals
To conclude her research on the development of new festivals in Kusi Kawsay, Peru and Nairobi Waldorf School, the author Vera Hoffmann summarizes in…
Between Glittery Façades and the Largest African Slum
In the third part of Vera Hoffmann's series on festivals at Waldorf schools she describes some examples from Kenya. Vera has investigated the latest…
Between Coca and Noodles
This is the second part of an article about the creation of festivals at Waldorf schools. Here, the author refers to an example from Peru. In an…
From the campfire to enzyme kinetics
In 2013 Dirk Rohde published a teacher's resource book called Chemistry Reader on how to establish chemistry teaching at Waldorf schools. The handbook…
A Sense of Place within the Waldorf Curriculum
Provocative. Critical. That's how this article wants to be. As the reach of Waldorf grows, Neil Boland asks if the time has come to 'decolonise'…
Developing Pedagogical Quality – but how?
Thomas Stöckli and his team at the Institute for Action Research in Switzerland have developed a method to develop the educational quality of…
On the Back of the Turtle. Culture and Waldorf Education
The Waldorf movement is becoming more and more international. There are already more than a thousand schools and eighteen hundred kindergartens in…
Waldorf education: a continuous cycle of renewal
For many people the Waldorf Curriculum (whatever they understand by this term) is integral to the definition of Waldorf education. They think a school…