Category:Waldorf

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Waldorf education (also known as Steiner or Steiner-Waldorf education) is a pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrates practical, artistic, and intellectual elements, and is coordinated with "natural rhythms of everyday life".

The Waldorf approach emphasizes the role of the imagination in learning, developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component. Studies of the education describe its overarching goal as providing young people the basis on which to develop into free, moral and integrated individuals, and to help all students fulfill their unique destiny. Schools and teachers have broad freedom to develop the curricula as they deem appropriate for their particular classes.[13]

The first Waldorf school was founded in 1919; there are now more than 1000 independent Waldorf schools and 1400 independent Waldorf kindergartens located in approximately sixty countries throughout the world, making up one of the world's largest independent educational systems, as well as Waldorf-based government-funded schools and charter schools, Waldorf homeschooling environments, and Waldorf schools for special education. Waldorf methods have also been adopted by numerous teachers within other state and private schools. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education)