EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR STEINER WALDORF EDUCATION
EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR STEINER WALDORF EDUCATION
Latest News last updated February 11th 2010
Download and read ECSWE Newsletter #19. Contents include:-
Do you want to visit sacred sites in the Holy Land and Waldorf schools for Jewish and Arab children that are transforming polarized societies in the region? Do you want to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath and a Passover Seder in Jerusalem? Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of the Abrahamic connections between Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Do you want to meet Jews and Arabs working for peace in the Holy Land?
This Spring brings the family on an Interfaith Philanthropic and Spiritual Pilgrimage, March 21 - April 2, 2010 co-lead by Waldorf parents Jewish Renewal Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross, Rabbinic Seminary for ALEPH, Shepha Schneirsohn Vainstein, co-founder of Salaam Shalom Educational Foundation. Below is a link to a recent article on Salaam Shalom's work that mentions Waldorf education in the Jewish Journal:
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The Pilgrimage will also be co-led by peacemaker Imam Jihad Turk - see below for an article on Imam Turk recently featured in the Los Angeles Times:
For more information please contact shephav@earthlink.net.
We will:-
"Steiner schools: learning - it is a wonder." by William Little
No.18 - November 2009. Available to Download now.
Download and read Schulkreis_3-09_ECSWE.pdf.
Download and read "What is the religious element in school?".
No.17 - October 2009. Available to Download now.
Waldorf One World Day Newsletter 2009-2010. Available to Download now.
General report EU Stakeholders Forum 2009 Word Document. Available to Download now.
Key Messages from the stakeholders 2009 Word Document. Available to Download now.
"Social and Emotional education: the arts as a foundation for a healthy personal development in childhood". May 8th 2009, Timisoara, Rumania. Venue: Philharmonic Hall
For further information contact the ECSWE office: ecswe@waldorf.net Tel: 0044 1342 822115
New website for Foreign Language teachers to connect with each other, share materials and activities and ask questions. It's free and there are more than 300 members (Foreign Language teachers) from all over the world.
ROBOTIC CHILDREN - Article in THE ECOLOGIST. Available to Download now.
International Steiner Waldorf Parents Network (ISWPN). ISWPN is a forum for the mutual support of parents through the exchange of ideas and experiences concerning Steiner Waldorf education.
An English - Hungarian bilingual Quality Care Conference in Budapest Town Hall (62-65 Váci utca, Budapest 1056) from Friday, 19th September 2008. 19.00 hours until Saturday, 20th September 2008. 17.00 hours, organised by the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education and the Hungarian Waldorf Fellowship.
Waldorf schools against discrimination (Stuttgart Declaration). Available to Download now.
The original declaration in German can be found under www.waldorfschule.info/index.19.280.1.html
EAC 30/07. Lifelong Learning Programme General call for proposal 2008.
Working group on Quality of Childhood in the European Parliament. Brussels, ECSWE together with the Austrian MEP Karin Resetarits, has founded a working group on Quality of Childhood in the European Parliament. This group has been meeting every 2 months to discuss issues related to its remit, starting on the 5th of December 2006 with the Toxic Childhood Syndrome that has been so prominent in the UK media of late. Two University representatives from Spain and the Netherlans and six other NGOs from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium have joined ECSWE to support this initiative on a new platform called the Alliance for Childhood - European Network Group.
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On June 29 2006, representatives of various European anthroposophic associations and organisations founded ELIANT (European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy), an Alliance with the aim of establishing legal safeguards for anthroposophic cultural initiatives. The Alliance is seeking joint representation of its interests in Brussels via a petition campaign.
1,000,000 signatures are necessary. Please, support ELIANT with your signature!
The Institute for Social Threefolding is an initiative of the Movement for Social Threefolding Germany e.V. It tries to make Rudolf Steiners point of view about general social questions visible within the new media.
Waldorf Researchers and Educators Network (WREN) is online! May 2007.
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