School and kindergarten on the move?
«Resist the fearful weakness of not moving, in petrifying moments and in killing the living!» While children particularly enjoy movement and motion, this is…
Braving the weather in turbulent times
This article is an extended version of a short lecture by Trevor Mepham, which he gave on 22 June 2024 at the Steiner Waldorf School «Michael Hall School» in…
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Creating «pedagogical pull»
How do electronic devices like tablets affect young children? What is important for healthy child development? And what does this have to do with…
The educator's personality
At the end of the foundation course which Rudolf Steiner gave in 1919 for the teachers who were about to become the first faculty of the first Waldorf School be therefore…
Schoolchildren in the lower classes
Questions that educators could ask themselves are: How can we stimulate schoolchildren in ways that will enable them to build on and expand their own realm of…
Change of teeth – a time of transformation
According to Rudolf Steiner's teachings, a first significant transformation process takes place around the age of 7, when the child gets its second…
Gesamtschweizerische Weiterbildungstage 2026
Am 16. und 17. Januar 2026 finden die Gesamtschweizerischen Weiterbildungstage am Goetheanum statt. Mehr Infos folgen.
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Just as flowers, vegetables and trees need certain conditions to develop well, so do children. Just as it makes little sense to artificially force plants to produce flowers and fruit that are not…
20.8 - 12 April: World Conference for Steiner Waldorf Kindergartens and Early Childhood
Self-education is also like working in the garden and kindergarten. Little or nothing can be achieved through coercion and rules. Everything depends on me wanting certain qualities and abilities…