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Added: 30/09/11
"Childhood being eroded by modern life, experts warn.
"Childhood is being eroded by a 'relentless diet' of advertising, addictive computer games, test-driven education and poor childcare, a powerful lobby of more than 200 experts warns today..."
By Graeme Paton, telegraph.co.uk
Added: 11/05/11
"Singing to children may help development of language skills"
by Amelia Hill, guardian.co.uk
Added: 25/01/2011
Articles on Poverty and Social Inclusion; and Social Integration in the German 'Waldorf-Hessen' newspaper.
Added: 21/12/09
"Research Finds No Advantage In Learning To Read From Age Five"
Contributed by the 'Voxy News Engine'
Added: 01/12/09
"Steiner schools - has their time come? - Steiner schools are hoping the time could soon come for them to be given state funding. Are they right?"
by Adharanand Finn, guardian.co.uk
Added: 10/09
"Waldorf-Inspired Public Schools Are on the Rise"
by Malaika Costello-Dougherty
Added: 05/09
"Assessment without High-Stakes Testing: Protecting Childhood and the Purpose of School"
by David Mitchell, Douglas Gerwin, Ernst Schuberth, Michael Mancini & Hansjörg Hofrichter
Added: 02/02/09
"Steiner schools: learning - it is a wonder."
by William Little
"Robotic Children."
by Nick Kettles
Added: 01/02/2008
"Playing with their minds."
by Matthew Harvey
Added: 21/11/2007
"Think global and act on local ways of reaching pupils."
by Sam Phipps
"Mucho tiempo para ser adulto, poco para ser niño."
by Ima Sanchís
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Added: 11th April 2013
ECSWE Newsletter 38 (March 2013) includes:
"WOW-Day – 26 September 2013"
"Assessment for Learning: ECSWE Review of Current Practice"
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Added: 21st February 2013
"Review of studies raises concerns over screen time, while the department of health highlights instead the dangers of inactivity..."
Added: 5th February 2013
ECSWE Newsletter 37 (January 2013) includes:
"Report of INSWAP 2012 – International Network of Steiner-Waldorf Parents. Florence, Italy"
"Steiner Academies in the UK"
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Added: 11th December 2012
Christopher Clouder, an inspiring co-founder and mainstay of ECSWE has resigned.
Added: 29th November 2012
Click - broadcast on the BBC News Channel, 25th Nov 2012
Added: 15th November 2012
ECSWE Newsletter 36 (November 2012) includes:
"European Waldorf Diploma EWD Leuven Conference Report – 31 August to 2 September 2012"
"The Link between Waldorf Pedagogy and Improving the Situation of Disadvantaged Roma Children Project of the Waldorf Pedagogical Institute – Hungary, Solymár"
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Added: 23rd October 2012
Article published in the Watford Observer, October 2012
Added: 5th October 2012
ECSWE Newsletter 35 (September 2012) includes:
"The Enigma of Creativity, Ljubljana - Slovenia"
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Added: 3rd October 2012
A short summary (SWSF Blog) and the full article (de Welt website) in de Welt on 26 September 2012 on a study by Andreas Schleicher
Added: 10th July 2012
ECSWE Newsletter 34 (July 2012) includes:
"Improving Assessment for Learning through working with the European Waldorf Diploma"
"News from the EU"
"Quality of Childhood Working Group; European Parliament"
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Added: 29th June 2012
"Improving assessment for learning through working with the European Waldorf Diploma in the classroom"
Invitation & Registration available to download now.
Added: 19th June 2012
ECSWE Newsletter 33 (June 2012) includes:
"The Development of Waldorf Pedagogies in the World and its influence on Pedagogical Art - A Conference at the Dnepropetrovsk University" by Alan Swindell
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Added: 19th June 2012
A flyer promoting the new MA Education course 'Steiner Waldorf pathway'
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Added: 19th June 2012
An article written by Gilad Goldschmidt about the Waldorf school today
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ECSWE Newsletter 32 (May 2012) includes:
"Improving the Quality of Childhood in Europe 2012"
by the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education / Alliance for Childhood European Network Group
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ECSWE Newsletter 31 (February 2012) includes:
"Schools as Learning Communities - A Conference in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair of Education at the Centro Universitario, La Salle in Madrid"
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ECSWE Newsletter 30 (December 2011) includes:
"First international European Waldorf Diploma conference at Emerson College"
"Saying it With Song and Dance - An International Music and Movement Week at the Ringwood Waldorf School"
"Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework Recognised"
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The Conference will be held with the collaboration of the UNESCO Chair of Education at the Centro Universitario La Salle in Madrid.
News that the Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework has been officially recognised as an alternative curriculum.
ECSWE Newsletter 29 (November 2011) includes: "Science, Maths and Creativity – Reflections from Vienna"
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ECSWE Newsletter 28 (September 2011) includes: "WOW-Day 2011 - The Europe wide WOW-Day 2011 is almost here. It will take place on the 29 September and almost 150 schools in 18 countries have already applied..."
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