Rudolf Steiner was not the only one to call for a change in pedagogy in the 20th century. It was no longer the rules of church and state that were to be decisive for the teachers of the time, but the nature of the child. The methods and contents of the living and learning conditions were to be newly developed from the child's understanding.

Under the title «Voices of a humane pedagogy», the Pedagogical Section presents in a series of lectures eight such reform pedagogues. These are Henryk Goldszmit alias Janusz Korczak, Emmi Pikler, Martin Buber, Paulo Freire, Edouard Claparède, Célestin Freinet, Denis de Rougemont and Adolphe Ferrière.

Here you can find all published videos of the lecture series:

• 3 May 2022: «Life is prepared by life»: Henri Louis Go, Lecturer at the Universtity of Lothringen, about Célestin Freinet (lecture in French with English subtitles, duration: 1 hour)

• 15 March 2022: «Impulses for healthy and child-friendly growing up»: Claudia Grah-Wittich, Social worker at the «hof» in Frankfurt, about Emmi Pikler (lecture in German, subtitle in English, duration of the video: 56 min.)

• 15 February 2022: «Becoming human thanks to the presence of the other»: Constanza Kaliks, Head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, about Martin Buber (lecture in German, subtitle in English, duration of the video: 57 min.)

• 18 January 2022: «Copernican Turn in Pedagogy»: Philipp Reubke, Head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, about Adolphe Ferrière, Edouard Claparède und Denis de Rougemont (lecture in German, subtitle in English, duration of the video: 54 min.)

• 16 November 2021: «Each child, a star»: Tomas Zdrazil, Professor of Education at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart, about Janusz Korczak (lecture in German, subtitle in English, duration of the video: 53 min.)

• 5 October 2021: «Pedagogy of the Oppressed»: Jonas Bach, Professor of Philosophy at the University Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, and Constanza Kaliks, Head of the Pedagogical Section, about Paulo Freire (lecture in German, subtitle in English, duration of the video: 35 min.)