Media as a Provider of Education
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…
Indirect and Direct Media Pedagogy
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…
Media and Waldorf Education
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…
Time with the class teacher
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…
Painting Problems
Have you ever heard the complaint, "Why do all the children's paintings look the same?" If you've asked yourself this question after having viewed the…
What can parents do for their child's healthy brain development?
Susan R. Johnson, the well-know US American pediatrician, has compiled a list of tips for parents, regarding television viewing. Her suggestions could…
Evaluating, Assessing, Testing and Learning
For as long as there have been schools – in the sense we understand them today – one of the teacher’s main tasks has been to observe, evaluate, assess…
Strangers in our Homes: TV and our Children’s Minds (i)
The US American pediatrician and Waldorf teacher Susan R.Johnson explains the fatal consequences of watching television and playing computer games on…
The omnipresent companion
Why are we so infatuated with our little gadgets? Smartphones and similar devices have become an indispensable part of our lives, of ourselves.…
Educational Horticulture: Arguments for and against and how you can do it anyway
Everyone is connected to the cultivation of edible plants, be it as producer or as consumer. We cannot live without plants. Peter Lange shows the…
Audrey McAllen’s ’The Extra Lesson’
The origin and source of the Extra Lesson: anthroposophy and Waldorf pedagogy / The archetypal steps of a child’s development / Extra Lesson in…
Tending the Chrysalis - Interview with Paul Hougham
Paul Hougham, teaches citizenship, politics and history and is also the class eight teacher at Steiner Academy Hereford in England. This is a rural,…
The Quadratic Equation – this is a topic to be taught in an inquiry based way after all
Some teachers of mathematics claim that the formula for the quadratic equation is incompatible with modern teaching methods and therefore has to be…
Implementing Dialogic Learning in Primary Schools
Through conventional teaching, children often loose their natural interest in mathematics. Prof. Dr. Peter Gallin shows in his research article how…
Teaching Horticulture in the Digital Age
A female stag is a Bambi. The sun rises in the north. A chicken lays an average of three eggs a day. UHT cows give UHT milk.
We might find these…
Ten Pylons: Foundations of a Waldorf Approach to Teaching Human Sexuality
This article comes from a new collection of essays entitled Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays on Human Sexuality and the Education of Youth in Waldorf…
Movement Education - The Origins of Bothmer Gymnastics
Sport, movement, exercise and active leisure pursuits are central to our culture and enormous amounts of time, money and creative endeavour are poured…
Furthering knowledge and linguistic competence: Learning with kernel ideas and journals
Children who want to learn care little for traditional subject barriers. From the beginning, their curiosity and thirst for knowledge are directed…
More than baking cakes
Parent partnership - or parent involvement - is a central concept at Steiner Waldorf schools, but what do we mean by it? Are we thinking of parents…
Combined Classes in Langnau - Almost Family
From crisis to success: Due to low numbers of pupils, the Rudolf Steiner School in Langnau, Switzerland began teaching combined classes in 2009. This…