Category: Waldorf Curriculum
Here we explore the Waldorf curriculum, which integrates academics, arts, and spiritual elements guided by anthroposophy. Emphasizing developmental stages, imaginative learning, and hands-on activities, the curriculum prompts both admiration for its creativity and concerns over academic rigor and transparency.
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Weird Science At Steiner School
© Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 16 (Fall 1991), page 23, reproduced by permission When Dan Dugan attended an open house at the San Francisco Waldorf School, he thought he’d found the most beautiful school in the world. The teachers were the most dedicated he’d met since the nuns he remembered from Catholic school. The teaching methods…
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Charter For Indoctrination?
Why A San Diego Teacher Gives Tax-Funded Waldorf Charter Schools An ‘F’by Rob Boston© Church & State, April, 1996, reproduced by permissionAmericans United for Separation of Church and State Critics Charge That The ‘New Age’ Waldorf Movement And Other Religious Groups Are Trying To Use Tax-Funded Charter Schools To Advance Religion After 25 years…
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Waldorf Schools Teach Odd Science, Odd Evolution
© 1994 Eugenie C. Scott National Center for Science Education 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 voice (510) 601-7203 fax (510) 601-7204 ncseoffice@ncseweb.org scott@natcenscied.org According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal magazine, “Wisconsin,” the Waldorf program is “the largest and fastest growing non-sectarian school movement in the world.” (1/12/92, p. 16) The…
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Are Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf Schools ‘Non-Sectarian’?
Dan Dugan and Judy Daar© Free Inquiry, Spring 1994 (Vol. 14 No. 2), reproduced by permission Public funding of schools in Milwaukee and Detroit operated by a cultlike religious sect is a new crack in the wall of separation between church and state. The establishment in law of this separation was a great social innovation of…
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Is Anthroposophy a Science? Examining Rudolf Steiner’s Claims
by Sven Ove Hansson, UppsalaConceptus XXV (1991), No. 64, pp. 37-49. Reproduced by permission of the author. Abstract Anthroposophy is one of the most successful occult movements in Europe. In this paper, its claim to be a science is examined. Two criteria are used that have both been accepted by the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf…