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Parenting Lessons I Learned From a Waldorf Kindergarten
June 16, 2014
It was my dream job and I didn’t get it. All I wanted was to work in that beautiful, quaint school with the wooden toys and the sheer silks where everything smelled of lavender. The Waldorf School looked like the calmest, coolest place on earth and when I set foot in the spare, yet homey kindergarten classroom where I was interviewing for a kindergarten aide position, I felt like I’d found the place where I was meant to be. A few days later, the teacher called and told me the position had been given to someone else and I was crestfallen. A week after that when she called me again to tell me that the person they’d hired had changed his mind about the job after all, I knew that fate had intervened on my behalf. More »
The Impact of Technology on the Developing Child
June 9, 2014
Today's families are different. Technology's impact on the 21st century family is fracturing its very foundation, and causing a disintegration of core values that long ago were the fabric that held families together. Juggling school, work, home, and community lives, parents now rely heavily on communication, information, and transportation technology to make their lives faster and more efficient. Entertainment technology (TV, Internet, video games, iPads, cell phones) has advanced so rapidly, that families have scarcely noticed the significant impact and changes to their family structure and lifestyles. A 2010 Kaiser Foundation study showed that elementary aged children use on average 7.5 hours per day of entertainment technology, 75 percent of these children have TV's in their bedrooms, and 50 percent of North American homes have the TV on all day. Gone is dining room table conversation, replaced by the "big screen" and take out. More »
Max Stibbe Waldorf School
May 28, 2014
We are situated on a beautiful, organic farm, in the tranquil Mooiplaats area, about 20 minutes east of central Pretoria. We have successfully applied the Waldorf approach to the South African context, in a manner that addresses the issues of identity and multi-culturalism. Our educational principles resonate with the African notions of self-respect and dignity, combined with a comprehensive curriculum that is based on the worth of the whole individual. At Max Stibbe School, children are inspired to become effective and purposeful in the world. Imbued with a love of learning, they are prepared to face their future with confidence, competence and initiative. More »
Design Wonder: Marecollege Waldorf School in Leiden, Netherlands
May 20, 2014
Due to urban developments in the city of Leiden, the Marecollege had to move to a new location. At the Sumatrastraat, an abandoned existing school building was transformed into a new school building that was fit for the Marecollege, a secondary Waldorf school with 450 students. 24H was commissioned to make a design for a 3800 m2 program, partially within the existing straightforward building from the 60's and partially in new extensions. The design strategy that was developed was to use the newly built structures to give the existing building a new and expressive identity in the exterior as well as interior. A 'lemniscate' shape was added to the building, forming a new entrance guided by the organic shape, a new central hall where all the dynamism is concentrated. More »
Why Do We Do What We Do? An Interview with Christof Wiechert
May 12, 2014
I have seen main lessons where the real teaching takes three minutes out of 120, or classes in America where they did the alphabet the whole first year. That is because of this misunderstood gesture that everything has to be wrapped with imagination. But, if you bring too much imagination, the children get fuzzy. The archetype is that the alphabet is done around Christmas of the first year and then the reading and writing starts. Steiner said that you should teach out of the reality of life, and so you would use endless comparisons, but you are not building artificial worlds of dwarfs and whatever in the first three grades. More »
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