Waldorf Schooling

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free creative thinker capable of self-actualization, and all children should have the right and access to this form of schooling.” (Follari, 2011, p. 243). When creating the Waldorf School, Steiner made sure that the schools were running under four key conditions. The four conditions were that, “the school was open to all children (race, class, ethnicity, ability level), the school was coeducational (accepting boys and girls), the K-12 curriculum was viewed as a unified, complete program, and the teacher bored the primary responsibility for control of the administration of the school, with minimal outside interference.” (Follari, 2011, p. 243). The first Waldorf School opened in Germany in 1919. This school was for the children of the workers at the Waldorf –Astoria cigarette factory. The first Waldorf School in the United States was in 1928 in New York City. Throughout the world including Europe, North & South American, Africa, Australia, and Japan, there are now over nine hundred ...

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For Waldorf education, it is essential that the curriculum for K-12 is unified but also age appropriate. Foreign languages, literature, arts, movement, discussion, experiment, and debate are a few ways in which children explore content and topics. The curriculum encourages individual expression when they are a child all the way to when they are adults and out of the program. The education addresses subjects on three different levels. The first level is the head or intellect. This education and curriculum try to teach and make sure that the student is able to think for themselves and to make their own judgments and thoughts. The second level is the heart. The goal of Waldorf education ...

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