Articles

Reshaping a Brain through Play - An Interview with Ruth Codier Resch

Added: 24th October 2011

by Ruth Cody Resch, published in Volume 3, Number 3, (Winter 2011) of the American Journal of Play

Facing a dilemma

Added: 28th April 2011

"There are now over 1000 schools worldwide and the Waldorf movement, as a whole, faces new responsibilities and challenges.
"At more or less the same time, we are marking the centenary of Steiner's lecture of January 1907 in Berlin "The Education of the child in the light of Anthroposophy", which gave birth to the Waldorf educational impulse."
Christopher Clouder, published December 2007

Small is beautiful Or Waldorf Primary School

Added: 28th April 2011

"The Waldorf School will soon be 100 years old. It has not been easy to find its way through the thorns of the 20th century.
"The school has already died once and arisen again.Who knows how its destiny will turn out in this century. The Waldorf School is now spread over the entire earth; at the present time approximately 1,000 schools and 2,000 kindergartens are active on all the continents."
Peter Guttenhöfer, Kassel, 13.03.2007

Does participation in pre-primary education translate into better learning outcomes at school?

Added: 11th April 2011

"The benefits of pre-primary education are evident and nearly universal.
"It's elementary: students benefit from pre-primary education. The OECD's PISA 2009 results show that in practically all OECD countries 15-year-old students who had attended some pre-primary school outperformed students who had not.."
PISA IN FOCUS 2011/1 (February)

BRIDGING THE GAP IN SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH THE ARTS - summary report

Added: 6th April 2011

'Bridging the Gap' is an independent research report, looking at the benefits of arts education.
"Our standard of living in Australia is one of the highest in the world according to the UN Human Development Index, including our ranking in education. Unfortunately, however, we have large gaps in equity of educational and social outcomes, for example the significant disparities in school completion and attainment for students from low socio-economic circumstance, non-English speaking or Indigenous backgrounds."
Dr Tanya Vaughan, Dr Jessica Harris & Professor Brian J Caldwell. Published by The Song Room, 2011.

Reaching Across The Ages

Added: 31st March 2011

'Reaching Across the Ages' is a story of a classroom evolving over time.
"It is a story very much of the present, yet equally of remembering the past and of contemplating the future, a future that is faced by primary schools throughout the world, a future that embraces teaching in combined classes."
Published in New View, January 2011.