Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) education balances artistic, academic and practical work educating the whole child, hand and heart as well as mind. Its innovative methodology and developmentally-oriented curriculum, permeated with the arts, address the child's changing consciousness as it unfolds, stage by stage. Imagination and creativity are cultivated as well as cognitive growth and a sense of responsibility for the earth and its inhabitants.
The Rudolf Steiner approach aims to support a harmonious development of the three soul faculties — willing, feeling and thinking — taking full account of the physical and emotional growth phases of the child. There is a particular emphasis on the development of the will during the first seven years of home and kindergarten education. The children learn most by what is worthy of imitation, through activities and this is practiced in the Playgroup and Preschool programs. "The uniqueness of the curriculum lies in how the children are taught. In presenting material, first comes the encounter; then encounter becomes experience; and out of experience crystallizes the concept. "
Excerpted from The Waldorf Schools: 32 Questions and Answers by Wade B. Holland
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