Thoughts on curriculum
Fresh thoughts prompted by protests The protests connected with the Black Lives Matter have prompted us all to reflect on our work and especially curriculum. I have been working on questions of curriculum [...]
Learning and life processes
Here are two articles that Martyn published recently on learning and the life processes (they were referred to in the paper on online learning). Research_Bulletin_23.2_Rawson Rawson learning
Digital Waldorf
Doing the same things digitally is different! Re-thinking learning-online through an online Elewa course Digital Waldorf: cooperative, creative, collegial Dear colleagues and friends, We would like to draw your attention to the new elewa [...]
My letter to the Guardian
...and to Zoe Williams in response to her article on 18th January 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/18/steiner-free-school-michael-gove? Dear Ms. Williams, since there is no chance of a reader’s letter of this length being published, nor indeed [...]
Pedagogical feedback culture
I’ve just returned from a very interesting meeting with upper school teachers from various UK Waldorf schools. We met at St. Michael’s in London to talk about the NZCSE (insiders know what that is) [...]
Developing Waldorf curriculum locally
California - Thor some guidelines on a generative approach Some time ago, Florian Osswald at the Pedagogical Section asked me if I had any texts on curriculum development in different [...]
Asian Waldorf Teacher Conference Chengdu, May 2017
Waldorf around the world Over a thousand people attended the seventh (and last) AWTC at the Mount Emei Resort (China’s Holy Mountain, except China is a secular country). Before the conference there was [...]
Waldorf conference in South Africa
Pan African Conference Johannesburg 2017 I was invited to attend the Pan African conference in Johannesburg in April (2017) and was happy to renew my acquaintance with friends and colleagues I had got [...]
Stages of learning – a Waldorf perspective
As promised in my blog following English Week, I have now written up my thoughts on the seven learning processes or stages of learning. I would be very happy to hear from readers what [...]
Step together – Waldorf in Lebanon
This blog is about my visit to Lebanon in January and some ideas that it prompted in me. My return journey was rather eventful, since my flight via Istanbul was cancelled because of heavy [...]