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  River Song Waldorf School - Fort Collins, CO - FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Waldorf education is a unique and distinctive approach to educating children that is practiced in Waldorf schools worldwide.
The best overall statement on what is unique about Waldorf education is to be found in the stated goals of the schooling: "to produce individuals who are able, in and of themselves, to impart meaning to their lives".
Waldorf education is deeply bound up with the oral tradition, typically beginning with the teacher telling the children fairy tales throughout kindergarten and first grade.
www.fortnet.org /rsws/waldorf/faq.html   (3123 words)

  
 Waldorf Education, Rudolf Steiner College
Waldorf schools provide a program that not only fosters conventional forms of academic achievement, but also puts a premium on the development of imagination and the refinement of the sensibilities.
Waldorf education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child.
In the Waldorf schools, for example, the goal is the education of the whole human being by paying attention to the needs of the human spirit.
www.steinercollege.org /waldorf.html   (1253 words)

  
 Waldorf
Although they are not directly associated with any specific religious organization, Waldorf schools recognize the essential divinity within each human being and seek to instill within the child a sense of wonder and reverence for the divine purpose that expresses itself through all creation.
In addition to the changes we have made in the Waldorf curriculum, there are a few areas in which we have philosophical differences, not with the Waldorf principles themselves, but with the way in which these principles are applied in the current educational and cultural environment.
First, although Waldorf schools recognize that parents serve as valuable role models and teachers for their children when they are young, they traditionally believe that parents should not serve as the primary teachers of their children beyond the change of teeth.
www.oakmeadow.com /resources/articles/Waldorf.htm   (2167 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs is striving to find the right balance, honoring its belief in the natural spirituality of the child with renewed sensitivity to family traditions and the need for a broader base of celebration.
Waldorf education is deeply bound up with the oral tradition, typically beginning with teachers telling fairy tales in kindergarten and first grade.
The Waldorf school is dedicated to the development of the imagination and the healthy physical and psychological aspects which will be the basis for a strong individuality to unfold.
www.waldorfsaratoga.org /faqs_t.html   (1697 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: Waldorf Charter School Controversy
Waldorf advocates have the noble goal of "impart[ing] meaning to [children's] lives" while educating the whole child, "head, heart and hands" (Ibid.).
Waldorf educators cannot help but promote Anthroposophy at least implicitly, since Anthroposophy is foundational to Waldorf educational method and curriculum, and thoroughly permeates both its theory and practice.
Waldorf educational advocates have been motivated to respond to these problems by attempting to be positive agents of change to address this situation in the promotion of Waldorf education.
www.watchman.org /reltop/waldorfcontroversy.htm   (1668 words)

  
 Waldorf Critics Archive 9909 Part 1/2 (September 1-20, 1999)
Many Waldorf people say to me that the powers that be in the movement (whoever they are) and the staff of its schools have realized that there is a need to explain themselves better to the outside world than they have in the past.
Waldorf graduates are=20 unlikely to have a clear notion of the electromagnetic spectrum,=20 despite having taken physics in both grammar and high schools." I wonder what the source of that statement is, since I haven't come=20 across it yet in my readings of Steiner's books.
Waldorf graduates are unlikely to have a clear notion of the electromagnetic spectrum, despite having taken physics in both grammar and high schools." I wonder what the source of that statement is, since I haven't come across it yet in my readings of Steiner's books.
www.waldorfcritics.com /active/archives/WCA9909.1.html   (15170 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Waldorf School
The heart of the Waldorf approach is the conviction that education is an art.
The Waldorf philosophy recognizes a basic need in children up to the age of fourteen or so for genuine authority, rooted in love and respect by the child for the teacher, and in respect by the teacher for the child.
Waldorf graduates find that their learning has become a part of them, a resource upon which to draw, a guide to full and responsive living.
www.scwaldorf.org   (1554 words)

  
 Waldorf Critics Archive 9802 (February, 1998)
In fact, the audience was packed with RSC staff members, Waldorf teachers and supporters from outside the community, and beautiful Aryan Waldorf graduates that testified to the wonderful influence Waldorf had on their lives.
A woman who dropped out of Waldorf teacher training after attending sessions in England reported being told in a lecture that a woman will be followed around by the soul of her aborted foetus.
Waldorf is not the end of the world and other people are just as intelligent as you, and have just as much right to their views of the world as you do.
www.waldorfcritics.com /active/archives/WCA9802.html   (17178 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions
Waldorf teachers strive to transform education in to an art that educates the whole child—the heart and the hands, as well as the head.
Just as Waldorf schools are nonprofit organizations that are not created for the financial benefit of any individual, so their founding must also have an element of selflessness rather than being created to benefit certain children and their families.
Waldorf Education is devoted to contributing to spiritual, social, and economic renewal.
www.awsna.org /awsna-faq.html   (6459 words)

  
 Waldorf answers on Waldorf schools and the philosophy and practice of Waldorf education
Waldorf or Rudolf Steiner education is a unique form of education from preschool through high school, which is based on the view that the human being is a being of body, soul and spirit.
Waldorf education was developed by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) at the beginning of the 20th century.
Some of the ideas in Waldorf education and anthroposophy are complex and require a degree of good will on the part of the reader to grasp.
www.waldorfanswers.org   (543 words)

  
 Waldorf education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Waldorf education's described aim is to educate what it terms the "whole child", incorporating a balance of physical activity, artistic creativity and academic work against the backdrop of its well-defined stages of child development.
Waldorf schools employ a curriculum that focuses on the developmental stages of childhood.
Waldorf education was developed by Rudolf Steiner as an attempt to establish a school system that would facilitate the inclusive, broadly based, balanced development of children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waldorf_School   (5246 words)

  
 Waldorf Education: Learning With Rhythms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Waldorf schools where children are learning to create an inner balance which helps more fully prepare them for creating lives of outward balance.
In addition to Waldorf, there are a growing number of other organizations that tap into music, movement, and the rhythms of life to help children as well as adult learn to live in greater balance with the world.
As you explore Waldorf Schools, one draw back as far as resources go is that for the most part they are all internally generated by people already committed to Waldorf education.
www.pathsoflearning.net /library/waldorf.cfm   (1627 words)

  
 Waldorf 101   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Additionally, Waldorf education has been primarily developed in a school setting and many of the hallmarks of Waldorf education only apply in schools.
Waldorf education was founded by the Austrian philosopher, scientist and spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner.
It is one of the so-called 'daughter movements' of the anthroposophy (or 'spiritual science') that Steiner worked to develop in the early part of the 20th Century (along with Biodynamic Agriculture, Anthroposophical Medicine, Curative Education for children with special needs, and various artistic expressions including the new art of movement, Eurythmy).
www.christopherushomeschool.org /waldorf_101.htm   (1227 words)

  
 WALDORF
Nearly five years ago, Waldorf won the hearts of many jaded analog devotees with the release of the Q analog-modeling synthesizer.
With the much-anticipated (and delayed) launch of the Q+, Waldorf decided to crank up the thermostat a little more, this time adding some hardware — 16 discrete, true-analog filters with resonance and analog distortion to be precise.
Waldorf's famous Comb+ and Comb- filter types are also available for integrated chorus and flange effects, with the Cutoff knob controlling the number of teeth (frequency of colorization) and the Resonance knob controlling the feedback depth.
remixmag.com /mag/remix_waldorf/index.html   (2372 words)

  
 An Introduction to Waldorf Homeschooling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In Waldorf schools, Third Graders study Building and Farming, two practical Main Lesson blocks which, on a subtle level, can really speak to the inner experiences of a child who is ‘creating her own self’.
At heart, Waldorf education aims to be therapeutic and its goal is to foster the development of healthy well-balanced individuals.
Waldorf seeks to avoid the scenario of hothouse flowers, plants which bloom early and bright, but often lack the strength and substance to grow and flourish over time.
christopherushomeschool.org /an_introduction_to_waldorf_education.htm   (1819 words)

  
 Waldorf Education . . . An Introduction
Waldorf schools are designed to foster this kind of learning.
Waldorf Education has its roots in the spiritual-scientific research of the Austrian scientist and thinker Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).
According to Steiner's philosophy, man is a threefold being of spirit, soul, and body whose capacities unfold in three developmental stages on the path to adulthood: early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
www.awsna.org /education-intro.html   (327 words)

  
 The Midtown Book - The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The hotel is in the base of the building while the top is devoted to the Waldorf Towers apartments, which have their own entrance on 50th Street.
The Biltmore clock was the one referred to the phrase "Meet you under the clock," as it straddled the gates leading to the Biltmore's central court lounge.
To the north of the Waldorf clock, however, is Peacock Alley, which has over the years changed from a cocktail lounge to a cocktail lounge and major dining room.
www.thecityreview.com.cob-web.org:8888 /waldorf.html   (1000 words)

  
 Waldorf Homeschoolers Home Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Waldorf Homeschoolers is a proud Affiliate of the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children.
Waldorf ideals for education emphasize and awaken disciplined creativity, wonder, reverence and respect for nature and human existence.
Waldorf methods have proven to offer a holistic educational model designed to provide the right stimulus at the right time and allow each child's abilities to fully unfold.
www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com.cob-web.org:8888   (859 words)

  
 Waldorf answers - What is Waldorf education?
Waldorf or Rudolf Steiner education is based on an anthroposophical view and understanding of the human
While anthroposophy forms the philosophical and theoretical basis of the teaching methods used in Waldorf schools and is reflected in the attitudes of many Waldorf teachers and in the general structuring and orientation of Waldorf education during the different
, it is done against the basic Waldorf tradition and in complete contradiction of the intention of Waldorf education, as expressed by Rudolf Steiner as the founder of Waldorf education.
www.waldorfanswers.org /Waldorf.htm   (366 words)

  
 Waldorf.ca | Waldorf Education in Canada
The whole focus of Waldorf Education is to awaken these capacities and draw them forth within the framework of a sound academic school experience.
Through a program that is rich in both affective and cognitive experiences, all Waldorf students acquire the ability to express themselves through painting, drama, music, crafts, movement, and writing.
All lessons are reinforced through the learning community that is established around each class where one teacher, one group of children, and their parents remain together for eight or more years.
www.waldorf.ca /index.cfm?PID=13324&PIDLIST=13324   (778 words)

  
 Welcome to digital symbiosis the home of anthroposophical art and research, Waldorf Steiner art and science in Totnes, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It is during years nine and ten, when the students move from an experiential curriculum to a more abstract, conceptual level of learning, that they are introduced to ICT and its use as an artistic, scientific, documentation and research tool.
The Digitalsymbiosis research project aims to explore the role and impact of applied digital technology within Waldorf education by developing an effective, anthroposophical research system, thereby enhancing the development of digital media curriculum, prospective educational programs and attainment of technical and pedagogical goals.
Estelle Morris, when she was Education Secretary, and Andrew Adonis, now an education minister, have pushed for it to happen, but attempts to set up a voluntary-aided school in London foundered, and three years ago it was decided to go down a different route.
www.digitalsymbiosis.com.cob-web.org:8888   (2138 words)

  
 Waldorf Resources :: On-Line articles relating to Waldorf Education
An excellent overview of basic Waldorf principles and the areas in which the Oak Meadow curriculum/philosophy diverges.
An interesting statistical report on the age variances of sexual maturity between Waldorf school and public school students (in Germany).
An explanation of the philosophy behind the Waldorf approach to literacy.
www.waldorfresources.org /readroom/articles.php   (581 words)

  
 Waldorf, Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Waldorf is an unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland.
Waldorf is either named after the town of Walldorf, Germany, or has a similar derivation: that is, either a German word meaning "forest village," or named after the Waldenses, a 12th Century religious sect.
Waldorf is predominantly a bedroom community for many residents who commute to work at other points in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, especially personnel at Andrews Air Force Base.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waldorf,_Maryland   (777 words)

  
 Waldorf answers on Waldorf schools and the philosophy and practice of Waldorf education (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Waldorf answers on Waldorf schools and the philosophy and practice of Waldorf education (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu)
This view is carried into Waldorf education as striving to develop in each child their innate talents and abilities.
If you think something is unclear and difficult to understand on the site, or have suggestions for improving it, please feel free to write to us about it.
www.waldorfanswers.org.cob-web.org:8888   (546 words)

  
 WaldorfWorld: Waldorf/Homeschooling
A Complete Resource for Waldorf Homeschoolers and parents interested in schooling their child with Waldorf inspired methods.
Waldorf Inspired Students at Home is THE place to start on a wonderful journey of homeschooling....
Lilac Children's Garden was conceived by Rochester parents in 1998 to bring the influence of Waldorf education to homeschooling families.
www.waldorfworld.net /Waldorf/Homeschooling   (541 words)

  
 SteinerBooks
The first free Waldorf school opened its doors in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 1919, under the auspices of Emil Molt, director of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company and a student of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, and particularly of Steiner's call for social renewal.
Although each Waldorf school is independent, and although there is a healthy oral tradition going back to the first Waldorf teachers and to Steiner himself, as well as a growing body of secondary literature, the true foundations of the Waldorf method and spirit remain the many lectures that Rudolf Steiner gave on the subject.
To remedy this situation and to establish a coherent basis for Waldorf education, SteinerBooks has decided to publish the complete series of Steiner lectures and writings on education in a uniform series.
www.steinerbooks.org /aboutwaldorf.html   (380 words)

  
 Waldorf Resources :: information, support, and inspiration
Waldorf Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information, support, and inspiration based on an underlying respect for the principles of Waldorf Education.
Consumer Reviews is the place to discuss, recommend, or research Waldorf or Waldorf-appropriate books, products, and vendors.
After a bit of a haitus we will slowly but surely be changing and updating Waldorf Resources in the months to come.
www.waldorfresources.org   (308 words)

  
 Waldorf.ca | Waldorf Education in Canada
Currently there are over 2000 Waldorf schools and kindergartens in over 40 countries worldwide.
If you are a parent or prospective parent of a Waldorf child, we hope this site will provide you the background and answers to your questions.
We have presented the ideas and the underlying educational philosophy behind the Waldorf pedagogy and its amazing curriculum so that you can become fully informed about the goals of the education that you are choosing for your family. 
www.waldorf.ca   (169 words)

  
 The Waldorf Astoria Hotel - New York City - The Waldorf Astoria Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
I read a mixed bag of reviews on the Waldorf but as it is an iconic hotel and somewhere i have always wanted to stay i thought i would give it a go.
Before the cruise we stayed in a small hotel called the Blakely on West 55th and it comparison to the Waldorf it was fantastic!!!The...
We stayed at the Waldorf Astoria for one night and have to say that the experience was a bit dissapointing.
tripadvisor.com /Hotel_Review-g60763-d93618-Reviews-The_Waldorf_Asto...   (1101 words)

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