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A New Chapter in Education

One does not need to look very far to see the growing dissolution with current mainstream models of education. Increasing pressures are being placed on both students and teachers to provide more and more data-driven results that are leading to occupational burnout with no notable improvements in desired outcomes.A deep crisis in the Australian education sector is afoot. It…

Anthroposophy in Steiner Education

Anthroposophy in Steiner Education

Steiner education has foundations in Steiner’s vision of anthroposophy, in particular his understanding of child development. Steiner viewed human maturation as a metamorphosis of awakening. The process of growing up evolves from the ‘sleep of infancy’, to the ‘dream of childhood’, the ‘lighting-up of adolescence’ to the ‘responsible thinking of the adult’. The curriculum and…

What Is Anthroposophy?

In 1924, Rudolf Steiner defined anthroposophy as ‘… a path of knowledge, which intends to lead what is spiritual in the human being to what is spiritual in the universe’. Anthroposophy is fundamentally a study of the human being, our nature, development and task. The lens that Rudolf Steiner gives us is the view that…

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner—An Oevre By John Davy

All over the world anthroposophic initiatives have been founded which acknowledge a special debt to Rudolf Steiner. These initiatives are wide-ranging and include schools, communities for people with disabilities, biodynamic farms, medical clinics, architectural practises and enterprises. Rudolf Steiner was born in Kraljevec (then in Austria, now in Croatia) in 1861, and died in Dornach, Switzerland…