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Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson
August 5, 2011
Sir Ken at the crossing point between mainstream education, Waldorf and the future. Great! More »
Resilience by Christof Wiechert
August 2, 2011
What makes one child strong in taking life’s knocks, what makes another child react so much more sensitively? Resilience is definitely connected with the experiences of the early years of childhood. One researcher thinks it is a matter of the first four or five years, while another thinks the whole time of childhood is significant, that is, until the tenth year. Leaving aside the different viewpoints, there is agreement that the soul’s power of resistance, or resilience, is nurtured and developed, if children have had the following five experiences. More »
Eurythmy Flash Mob
July 29, 2011
A picture (or a video) is worth a thousand words. Hundreds of students assembled for the world's first eurythmy flashmob in Cologne to christen the launching of the Rudolf Steiner Sesquicentennial Express Train in February. The students from Alanus College, an anthroposophical college near Bonn, assembled on the steps of the Great Cathedral in Cologne, performed a “Hallelujah” in eurythmy, then moved across the plaza to the main train station where they did more eurythmy on the platforms as the train came in for boarding. More »
From Cursive to Cursor: The Death of Handwriting by Merry Gordon
July 16, 2011
You might have called it longhand, or Spencerian script, or Palmer penmanship. Whatever you remember it as, the graceful loops and whirls of your childhood may be a thing of the past for today’s grade schoolers. Can’t believe that your kid might know script only as a font style? Believe it: in the ever-changing and increasingly technocentric world of public education, penmanship is passé. When the SAT required a handwritten essay section a few years ago, many thought that cursive might see a revival, but by 2007 85% of test-takers were responding to their prompts in print. If cursive is seen as irrelevant in high-stakes testing, our data-driven schools seem likely to abandon it altogether within the next few years. More »
Pikler's Trust in the Wise Infant by Jane Swain
July 11, 2011
The Pikler Institute—often called Lóczy (pronounced Loh-tsee) after the street where it is located in Budapest, Hungary—was originally built in 1946 as an orphanage for children ages birth to three whose parents were killed in WWII or were in tuberculosis asylums. In continuous operation since it was founded by pediatrician Emmi Pikler, Lóczy today cares for children up to six-years-old, most of whom have been abused, neglected or abandoned, and a few of whom have special needs. More recently, the institute began offering parent-child classes and a day-care program. It also serves as a training and observation center that draws participants from around the world who wish to learn more about Lóczy renowned practices that support the healthy development of children. At the core of the institute’s philosophy is an understanding of the need to provide an environment in which children are nurtured, respected and allowed freedom of movement so that they may grow and develop in security, relationship to others, and self-mastery. More »
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