For the training and further education of educators, teachers and lecturers, the question arises of identifying, deepening and updating the pedagogical foundations and principles in ways that are timely and sustainable.
In particular, seminars and specialist conferences will focus on the deepening of spiritual science, the anthroposophical study of the human being and the educational approaches and methods already developed and those waiting to be developed.
The global growth of the Waldorf movement has led to more variety and complexity in teacher training. Therefore today and in the future we need people who adapt Rudolf Steiner's educational impulse to their own culture and implement it in a contemporary way. The «International Teacher Education Project» by the Pedagogical Section and the «Hague Circle – International Council for Steiner Waldorf Education» addresses this issue.
The project group organized colloquia on each continent as platforms for teacher educators from early childhood to high school to meet and find their common ground.
The results of the continental colloquia will be collected by a project group composed of colleagues from different continents. It has the task of designing a target image of «teacher education» and describing its implementation. The project group meets three times a year to work with feedback and suggestions for refining and expanding aspects of education.
Questions we have asked ourselves: