Dear Friends of Waldorf Education, Dear Educators and Teachers
With this newsletter we would like to invite you once again to the World Teachers' Conference 2023. So far 750 people have registered, but only about 70 of them come from German-speaking countries. If you are looking for an intensive exchange with colleagues from all over the world, if you want to look beyond your own institution when discussing pedagogical
issues and if you want to tackle the question of what «Education for Future» could look like at a great festival of encounters: Here you will find the programme, registration and practical information about the conference. The large hall of the Goetheanum with 1000 seats will certainly soon be fully booked. We also recommend the following two articles on the conference theme: a text on the relationship between body, soul and spirit and a
contribution on dealing with cultural diversity.
With warm greetings from the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum
Constanza Kaliks and Philipp Reubke
«Affirming THE HUMAN BEING, Nurturing THE SOUL, Trusting THE BODY, an Education for Today and Tomorrow»
Trevor Mepham, member of the «Hague Circle – International Council for Steiner Waldorf Education»surprises us with a completely new perspective on our conference title of the World Teachers' Conference 2023 «Affirming – Nurturing – Trusting, an Education for Today and Tomorrow».
School is not a machine. It should be an organism that changes depending on the internal and external environment. This environment includes for instance the teachers, the children, the parents as well as the religious and social environment of the place where one is. According to Rudolf Steiner, all this has to be perceived.
Using the example of Christopher Columbus, Philipp Reubke shows very clearly how important
«context sensitivity» is.
Dear colleagues at Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf schools worldwide,
The project on «Pedagogy and Resilience» has taken off in the last few months, which gives us great pleasure!
Discussions on the content and ideas for the project have been held in various contexts. Groups of students and lecturers from the Netherlands and Germany, teachers and researchers dealing with questions concerning «pedagogy and health», as well as the Hague Circle have heard about the project and became part of substantive discussions about the topic of
the project. In addition, first interviews were conducted with former Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf students in order to gain deeper insights into which biographical experiences, including the school career, contributed to the development of a resilient attitude from today's perspective and can be named today. At the beginning of December, Gina Anghelescu and Ioana Viscrianu as a research team, in close collaboration with colleagues from the Pedagogical Section, initiated communication with the federations of Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf schools worldwide with the intention of gaining a picture from the upper
levels of schools worldwide. Thus an overview of the existing schools and their basic data in relation to the upper schools will form the basis for deciding on further methodological necessary steps for the research project.
Furthermore, if you would like to receive news regarding the development of the project, please register on the website of the Pedagogical Section.
In the coming period we will be in contact with you, with your school, again and again! We are looking forward to the resulting encounters and to a fruitful cooperation!
