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Online lecture series by Waldorf education lecturers is back.

School as a place for resilience development. A contribution by Ioana Viscrianu.

Lecture series on reform pedagogues of the 20th century.

The tasks of the Pedagogical Section

3 September: Speeches on 100 years of Steiner's education courses.

Chronological order as in 1919

A new website makes the worldwide network of Waldorf education tangible.

We are shocked to hear the news of the war in Ukraine, of destruction, hatred and fear, of the traumatic experiences of many parents and children.

Dear colleagues in Waldorf and Rudolf Steiner schools and kindergartens around the world; dear friends!

Here is the Christmas edition of the…

The International Campus Waldorf (ICW) is an online platform for students of Waldorf teaching programs and Waldorf teachers around the world. It…

The course will offer four live events online with interesting and well-known speakers and opportunities

for exchange and discussion in groups. The…

A group of School doctors and educators worked on a description of the tasks of a school doctor.

#KidsOnTech.Film

Waldorf 100: The fifth and long awaited film is here!

Dear colleagues worldwide,

We would like to invite you to join an initiative of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum.

In kindergartens, child care centres, therapeutic facilities and doctors' offices, as everywhere,  posters indicate protective measures against the…

Basic principles underlying the “Here I can thrive” campaign of the Working Group Pregnancy – Birth – Early Childhood of the Medical and Pedagogical…

by Constanza Kaliks as part of the series "Building trust. Education in times of Corona" of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

by Florian Osswald as part of the series "Building trust. Education in times of Corona" of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

by Claus-Peter Röh as part of the series "Building trust. Education in times of Corona" of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

by Philipp Reubke as part of the series "Building trust. Education in times of Corona" of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

Or the Art of Awakening the Intellect from out of the Whole Human Being

Can we comprehend what is foreign to us? Interculturality in the 21st century - A contribution by Constanza Kaliks and Paula Edelstein on November 16,…

Contributions by Florian Osswald and Claus-Peter Röh on December 7, 2020 as part of the lecture series of the Goetheanum Leadership Signature of the…

Just before end of this year you will receive some information from the Pedagogical Section. Our Journal is finished and offers at the end of this…

During 2020, the schooling of the large majority of the world’s children has been disrupted at some stage by the coronavirus pandemic. To investigate…

Here is an insight into everyday life in the Waldorf kindergarten in Chengdu/China during COVID-19. We go to the kindergarten with bowls and…

Colleagues from Luxor in Egypt report on their handling of the Corona measures. They found a good way of getting to the parents and children at home…

In all 32 Waldorf Schools in Norway teachers had to cope with distance learning. They built a facebook group to share teaching methods, ideas and gave…

Imagination is always necessary in the classroom and it is especially in demand in the current exceptional situation. How can the best be tried in the…

The title of the WTC 2023 is: The Battle for Intelligence - Mind the Gap. This short article attempts to give an insight into the questions underlying…

For some years now, well-founded statements by Waldorf teachers concerning meaningful media education have been published time and again.* In short,…

Leadership changes in the Goetheanum‘s Pedagogical Section

Changes to the Pedagogical Section‘s leadership will be gradually introduced during…

The World Teachers’ Conference 2023 will put the question of the nature of the body in the centre of its work.

The 11th World Teachers’ and Educators’ Conference will take place at the Goetheanum, in Dornach, Switzerland, probably in spring 2023. This will be…

"Middle School in the Waldorf School,” an initiative group of the Pedagogical Section and the International Forum for Waldorf/ Steiner Education, has…

It looks as if some form of remote learning and distance, online teaching will be with us in some form for a while. Therefore we have updated our…

Just as it happened and continues to happen in a large part of the planet, in Argentina, since March 20, space has been confined and we are immersed…

An updated version of the complete list of Waldorf Schools and kindergartens worldwide, as well as the training centres for Waldorf teachers and…

Themes in our new Journal: Waldorf Education in Future, China, Middle Classes, Morning Verses…

With the urgent of the Friends of Waldorf Education we would like to support Waldorf Schools affected by the economic consequences of the lockdowns in…

by Leon Liu, father of a Waldorf school in China 

At this moment, I was sitting in the middle of my yard surrounded by green trees, preparing the…

by Dorothee Prange, Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum/ Switzerland

In this article I summarize the experiences that the Pedagogical Section has…

by Philipp Reubke, member of the IASWECE coordination group

The kindergartens are empty, the indoor plants went home with the teachers, and the…

by Uta Stolz, Mentor with focus on learning therapy, Germany

Are we suddenly thrown into the digital world or are there other pathways to bridge…

by Christof Wiechert, Freelance work Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

Having pointed out in an earlier contribution of fourteen points how…

02/04/2020

by Martyn Rawson, teaches in Kiel at the Waldorflehrerseminar/ at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart/ at the Christian Morgenstern Schule in…

Matthias Braselmann, teacher at Windrather Talschule, Germany

In the book Towards the Deepening of Waldorf Education we read on page 58:

“With such…

Elewa has set up a course in which they

• offer some ideas of how we can “invite our pupils into meaningful, creative and fun activities and…

As part of her work for Caritas Switzerland, the educationalist Beatrice Rutishauser Ramm has developed an approach to help children with learning…

by Georg Jürgens, European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education

In the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education, we follow the developments…

by Matthias Girke, Georg Soldner, leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum

The current corona pandemic gives rise to completely new questions,…

by Kathy Hu, Nanshan Waldorf School Beijing, China

The situation in China is getting better and our school started digital school 4 weeks before. We…

by Bonnie Freundlich, Vanessa Kohlhaas, and Anouk Tompot

Dear SWS Families,

As we enter our first full week of Beyond the Classroom, we hope that…

by Thomas Stöckli, leader of the Academy for Anthroposophical Education, Switzerland

We are currently in an exceptional international situation in…

by Joep Eikenboom, grade 5 teacher at the Dordtse Vrije School, the Netherlands 

We live in unexpectedly unreal times. This coronavirus crisis…

by Christof Wiechert, Freelance work Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

Over the past few weeks, various schools have asked for help with…

by Florian Osswald, leader of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum

We find ourselves living in an extraordinary situation. In many parts of the…