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Waldorf Education

WAWL-dorf
Also Known As Steiner Education
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The holistic pedagogical approach based on Rudolf Steiner's educational philosophy, first put into practice at a school opened for the children of Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company workers in Stuttgart in 1919, that organizes schooling around three seven-year developmental stages and integrates arts into every subject.

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How can schooling develop a child's physical, emotional, cognitive, social and imaginative capacities together, in step with three successive seven-year developmental stages, rather than the intellect alone? 1
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Cultivating creativity, imagination and social development through arts-integrated, developmentally-paced instruction; research cited by the approach's own literature found Waldorf pupils produced more accurate, detailed and imaginative drawings than comparison groups. 1
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  • Waldorf education page
    based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner
  • Waldorf education page, child development section
    physical, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual
  • Waldorf education page, outcomes section
    drew more accurate, detailed, and imaginative drawings
  • Waldorf education page, alternate names section
    also known as Steiner education
  • Associated With: Freie Waldorfschule Stuttgart, Waldorf education page, origins section
    The first school based upon the ideas of Rudolf Steiner was opened in 1919
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