Author: Waldorf Critics
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Is “spiritual science” science? The flawed legacy of Rudolf Steiner
By J. Paul Greenaway REPOSTED WITH PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was an unconventional Austrian philosopher, spiritual explorer, educationalist and environmentalist. Centres, groups, schools and other associations descending from his work are now widespread throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, with further centres scattered through numerous other countries, including Egypt and parts…
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He Went To Waldorf
The following is a translation of Grégoire Perra’s “L’endoctrinement des élèves à l’ Anthroposophie dans les écoles Steiner-Waldorf”, or “The Anthroposophical Indoctrination of Students in Steiner-Waldorf Schools”
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“Partial Vision” in Alternative Education
Author’s Note The following article was published in Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall, 1998). It originally appeared in SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, Vol XIV, No. 3, Summer, 1997. The author would like to make it clear that by permitting it to be included on the PLANS website, he is…
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Warm and Woolly? An anthroposophical experiment
This article is copied, with permission, from the Nowegian Waldorf critics page Steinerkritikk. By Kristin A. Sandberg and Trond K.O. Kristoffersen Is Jrna the society of the future? asks A-magasinet (24.nov. 2006) presenting children joyfully playing outdoors, eating organic food. Wool for the children and apples for all. How romantic! It’s almost enough to make…
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A Pedagogy for Aryans
Small classes, no mad scramble for high marks, and a motivated teaching-staff—Waldorf schools have earned a good reputation for their feigned ability to benefit students on an individual level. Still, to this day, these disguised religious schools pursue the idea of the anti-modern. By Peter Bierl[2] The German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs[3] has asked…
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Sex Abuse Cases: Waldorf School Suspends Teacher! Translated by Tom Mellett
Colleagues and parents are shocked by the allegations against the teacher. The investigation of other perpetrators continues. A former student of the accused speaks out. The reaction of school administrators, pupils and teachers at the [Berlin] Waldorf School in the “Märkisch” [Brandenburg] district on Saturday was disbelief at the news that one of the three…
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Waldorf: A Very Alternative Education
By Northernrefugee It must have been May, because I remember the sheets of bluebells and the children whooping as they tore through them, the heady sweet smell rising. I felt strongly this was how childhood should be, prolonged and carefree, and one reason we’d moved from London to the rural North was to give our…