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Waldorf in India: The Tridha Rudolf Steiner School in Mumbai & Kashmir-A Meeting of Three Cultures by Aban Bana

August 15, 2011

Tridha Rudolf Steiner School in Mumbai was started in the year 2000 by a group of parents who wanted a human approach to school education for their young children. They wanted a school where their children could study and play without stress and without fear, a school where there was an emphasis on moral values and high thinking, a school where slow or disabled children would not be ridiculed or feel left out. It so happened that in December 1996 there was an exhibition on Waldorf Education in Mumbai, sponsored by the UNESCO. Some of the members of this parent group made their way to the exhibition and liked what they saw. In January 1997, this group met with a view to starting a Rudolf Steiner School in Mumbai. They attended workshops, organized study groups to read Steiner’s books and prepared themselves thoroughly. In June 2000, the Tridha Rudolf Steiner School opened its doors to 20 children in kindergarten and class one in a small bungalow in Kalina, Santa Cruz west, Mumbai. Today, six years later, there are over 200 children in three kindergartens and seven classes, and the numbers are growing steadily. More »

Changing Education Paradigms by Sir Ken Robinson

August 5, 2011

Sir Ken at the crossing point between mainstream education, Waldorf and the future. Great! More »

Resilience by Christof Wiechert

August 2, 2011

What makes one child strong in taking life’s knocks, what makes another child react so much more sensitively? Resilience is definitely connected with the experiences of the early years of childhood. One researcher thinks it is a matter of the first four or five years, while another thinks the whole time of childhood is significant, that is, until the tenth year. Leaving aside the different viewpoints, there is agreement that the soul’s power of resistance, or resilience, is nurtured and developed, if children have had the following five experiences. More »

Eurythmy Flash Mob

July 29, 2011

A picture (or a video) is worth a thousand words. Hundreds of students assembled for the world's first eurythmy flashmob in Cologne to christen the launching of the Rudolf Steiner Sesquicentennial Express Train in February. The students from Alanus College, an anthroposophical college near Bonn, assembled on the steps of the Great Cathedral in Cologne, performed a “Hallelujah” in eurythmy, then moved across the plaza to the main train station where they did more eurythmy on the platforms as the train came in for boarding. More »

From Cursive to Cursor: The Death of Handwriting by Merry Gordon

July 16, 2011

You might have called it longhand, or Spencerian script, or Palmer penmanship. Whatever you remember it as, the graceful loops and whirls of your childhood may be a thing of the past for today’s grade schoolers. Can’t believe that your kid might know script only as a font style? Believe it: in the ever-changing and increasingly technocentric world of public education, penmanship is passé. When the SAT required a handwritten essay section a few years ago, many thought that cursive might see a revival, but by 2007 85% of test-takers were responding to their prompts in print. If cursive is seen as irrelevant in high-stakes testing, our data-driven schools seem likely to abandon it altogether within the next few years. More »

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