Rethinking Waldorf Curricula
Martyn has been working intensively with Kath Bransby over the past two years developing a new approach to the Waldorf curriculum, which has been very well received in a number of countries. We have [...]
Reconnecting
It’s been a while since we posted and a lot has happened in the meantime on other fronts. For those who haven’t seen this publication, here is one of the first ever books to [...]
Thoughts on curriculum
Fresh thoughts prompted by protests The protests connected with the Black Lives Matter have prompted us all to reflect on our work and especially curriculum. I have been working on questions of curriculum [...]
Some more thoughts on assessment
I have updated the text on assessment to include themes such as the importance of feedback and a statement of intent for Steiner Waldorf schools. There is some overlap with the earlier text, but [...]
Learning and life processes
Here are two articles that Martyn published recently on learning and the life processes (they were referred to in the paper on online learning). Research_Bulletin_23.2_Rawson Rawson learning
Digital Waldorf
Doing the same things digitally is different! Re-thinking learning-online through an online Elewa course Digital Waldorf: cooperative, creative, collegial Dear colleagues and friends, We would like to draw your attention to the new elewa [...]
My letter to the Guardian
...and to Zoe Williams in response to her article on 18th January 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/18/steiner-free-school-michael-gove? Dear Ms. Williams, since there is no chance of a reader’s letter of this length being published, nor indeed [...]
Pedagogical feedback culture
I’ve just returned from a very interesting meeting with upper school teachers from various UK Waldorf schools. We met at St. Michael’s in London to talk about the NZCSE (insiders know what that is) [...]
Creative teaching, sustainable learning
English Week Inspirations “…‘tis the season of the year…“ November has not always been one of my favorite months. However, since I started going to English Week many years ago, this generally rather [...]
Developing Waldorf curriculum locally
California - Thor some guidelines on a generative approach Some time ago, Florian Osswald at the Pedagogical Section asked me if I had any texts on curriculum development in different [...]