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Authority and School – on the Relationship between Class Teacher and Student in Waldorf Schools
Read the contribution from Walter Riethmüller on Waldorf Resources.
The next Learning Support Conference will take place from 23 to 26 October 2025 at the Goetheanum. Register now.
Are you interested in training issues?
The dates for the next ITEF meetings for trainers of Steiner Waldorf teachers have been set. Be there!
Connecting Agriculture and Education
«Living Farms Podcast»: Eduardo Rincón, Co-leader of the Section for Agriculture, in an interview with Philipp Reubke.
Rudolf Steiner as a Student and a Teacher
The conference of the General Anthroposophical Section will take place at the Goetheanum from 27 to 28 September 2025.
Education for freedom for all?
The relevance of contemporary theory to Steiner education. A contribution by Neil Boland and Joaquín Muñoz.
The most important points in brief
The August newsletter is here. You can subscribe to it or read it directly here.
Read the updated «Essential Characteristics of Waldorf Education» here. The Hague Circle adopted them in Budapest in May 2025.
«Kindness – Strength – Love. Seeds for Healthy Unfolding»: The World Early Childhood Conference will take place from 8 to 12 April 2026.
As the call for free schools grew in many places, Rudolf Steiner founded the Waldorf School. Constanza Kaliks in «The Goetheanum».
A paradise of Waldorf education
Philipp Reubke attended the ITEF conference in Taiwan in April 2025. Read his impressions here.
Adult Learning as a Transformative Experience
Here you can find the summary of the ITEF contribution by Clara Aerts from June 2025 and other contributions on teacher training.
Waldorf school design patterns
A master's thesis on the uniqueness of Waldorf school architecture and other academic publications can be found here in Waldorf Resources.
A Brazilian path to social change
The newly founded «Fundo Confluências para educação» supports people in their training to become teachers at the Brazilian Faculdade, Rudolf Steiner.
Waldorf Biology in a Reductionist Setting
Here you will find the latest article on our Waldorf Resources website - this time it is a contribution by Michael Holdrege.
Every research trip begins with a good question. Sometimes this is a silent act of rebellion. A contribution by Belle Leung and Jacinta Gorchs.
Student Enterprises and Double-entry Bookkeeping
On Waldorf Resources you will find an article by Oliver van der Waerden with a lesson example from an 8th grade class.
«Resilience and Pedagogy»: Register now!
Our academic research project is progressing. Click here to find out more.
The 37th training week will take place from 21 to 26 September 2025 in Baerenthal, France. Find out more here.
«The opening of the Waldorf School and Rudolf Steiner's pedagogical impulse»
To mark the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death, Constanza Kaliks gave a lecture in February 2025. Watch the video here.
