A summary of the main features Waldorf Pedagogy was created by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, and the first school to use it was founded in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. It becomes more widespread every year, and is already adopted in about 1100 schools and 2000 Kindergartens in more than 80 countries on 5 continents. This because…
INTRODUÇÃO – A educação para enfrentar os desafios do futuro por Rubens Salles “Nossa mais elevada tarefa deve ser a de formar seres humanos livres, que sejam capazes de, por si mesmos, encontrar propósito e direção para suas vidas.” Rudolf Steiner Em 2019 comemoramos 100 anos desde a criação da primeira escola onde foi…
The social trimming by Rubens Salles The anthroposophical vision of the social organism, conceived by Steiner, is one of the mainstays of Waldorf Pedagogy, and you will see below that it is reflected in the very structure of Waldorf schools. It seeks to answer the following question: What society do we want?
Community Schools by Rubens Salles In principle, Waldorf schools are community schools, created at the initiative of a group of parents and teachers. Only a few small kindergartens are run by independent private initiative, and some larger schools that started out as private schools ended up becoming associations over time.
The quality of the relationship between teacher and student by Rubens Salles In primary education in Waldorf schools, the class teacher is adopted, who accompanies the class from 1st to 8th grade and teaches the main subjects (Portuguese, mathematics, history, etc.) of the day, lasting two hours, every day.
The science of the human being by Rubens Salles Waldorf Pedagogy was developed and carried out taking into account that the human being is formed by a set of forces that go beyond his physical body, and that need to be understood and considered so that education does not whether just to teach subjects to children,…
Unraveling human behavior by Rubens Salles The theory of temperaments – melancholic, choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic – that represent “spices” of human behavior, dates back to Empedocles, in ancient Greece, who related them to the four natural elements – earth, fire, air. , Water. Hippocrates called them the four humors. Later they were also studied by Kant, Wilhelm Wundt,…
In the Waldorf curriculum, teaching follows a progressive methodological sequence. The way we understand the world changes throughout life, and that happens…
Waldorf Pedagogy is an integral educational project Article by Wenzel Götte The child is a being in development. From this point of view, all pedagogical activity must observe two aspects: that development comes from the past and goes into the future, and that the child transforms throughout this…
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