Editorial
Cultivating Your Child’s Creativity
Why is creativity so important in Waldorf education?
“If you’ve had the experience of binding a book, knitting a sock, or playing a recorder, then you feel that you can build a rocket ship or learn a software program you’ve never touched. It’s not bravado, just a quiet confidence. There is nothing you can’t do. Why couldn’t you? Why couldn’t anybody?” Peter Nitze, Waldorf and Harvard graduate Executive Vice President of Martek Biosciences Corp
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AHWS Alumna awarded Rhodes Scholarship. Bruce Nicol writes a few words about his daughter’s recent achievement.
“I can say a few words about what Rosanna might have taken with her from her time at the AHWS, both is terms of her immersion in Waldorf Education, and the time she spent with her teachers.
The Rhodes Scholarship is awarded on four attributes: academic excellence, natural leadership
ability, athletic ability, and an instinctive desire to help the weak… Read the rest
Educate children with deep understanding, balance, and an integrated curriculum not with boy/girl stereotypes.
Canada’s largest school board recommends boy-friendly instruction such as hand-on learning and movement for boys. However, all students need these qualities in education. Waldorf Academy teachers use an integrated curriculum practised since 1918 and addressing different learning styles and intelligences.
Wow! and heartbreak are my responses to plans for boy-friendly education in Canada:
- wow! for a gesture honouring a wider range of
Review of Atkinson Series “Brainstorm” “ Toronto Star, Saturday, November 07, 2009, p. L1 Story by Alanna Mitchell.
The series is based upon the results of a year long fellowship aimed at investigating the controversial push to use brain sciences to improve education.
Allison Hudgins delves into the series and sees how Waldorf Education holds up to ‘Brain Science’.
This is the essence of neuroeducation: an openness to let the brain grow as it needs to, fuelled by… Read the rest
