TEACHING FOR THE FUTURE

Teaching guidelines for the future

Of the ten guidelines for teaching and preparing young people for the 21st Century prepared by Australian researchers Beare & Slaughter, eight refer to important features of Steiner Waldorf education:


1. Appropriate imagery - choosing metaphors with care and imagination
2. Teach for wholeness and balance - holistic paradigm;
3. Teach identification, connectedness, integration - epistemological inter-connectedness;
4. Develop individual values - value the individual;
5. Teach visualisation - development of the picturing imagination;
6. Empowerment through active hope - distinguish between faith and hope;
7. Tell stories - use story telling and mythology as powerful teaching tool; and
8. Teach and learn how to celebrate - celebrate festivals.


Or, to summarise the spirit of the above in the words of Rudolf Steiner:

The need for imagination, a sense of truth
and a feeling of responsibility ---
these are the three forces which are the very nerve of education.

Steiner on RUDOLF STEINER EDUCATION