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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Central QuestionHow 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 Most Effective ForCultivating 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 Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationWaldorf 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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