Living Education would like to welcome our new readers and we hope you will find this a worthy successor to Child and Man and Steiner Education

Living Education would like to welcome our new readers and we hope you will find this a worthy successor to Child and Man and Steiner Education. The intention is that it also becomes a vehicle of debate as well as being informative and inspiring. This journal is primarily aimed at Waldorf teachers, parents and all those involved in Steiner Education. That circle is expanding rapidly in many new directions and as the international debate on education and childhood increases in volume and intensity Living Education is there to serve all those who wish to participate in developing a spiritually based approach to education that tries to meet the inner needs of the growing child.


Living Education would like to welcome our new readers and we hope you will find this a worthy successor to Child and Man and Steiner Education. The intention is that it also becomes a vehicle of debate as well as being informative and inspiring. This journal is primarily aimed at Waldorf teachers, parents and all those involved in Steiner Education. That circle is expanding rapidly in many new directions and as the international debate on education and childhood increases in volume and intensity Living Education is there to serve all those who wish to participate in developing a spiritually based approach to education that tries to meet the inner needs of the growing child.

Issue 3 Summer 2007 At a joint hearing of the European Parliament and the Commission entitled “Towards a EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child" held in Brussels in April this year, Franco Frattini, European commissioner for Freedom, Securityand Justice, announced that "families and schools are in crisis". He appealed for a broader vision regarding policy towards children and childhood because “ a legal approach is good, but insufficient”. The hearing was mainly concerned with what had gone wrong and how this crisis could be “repaired” rather than how these particular problems had arisen in the first place. more..	Issue 2 Spring 2007 Kofi Annan gave a speech in Istanbul on the occasion of the release of a report by a high level research group under the title of the Alliance of Civilisations in November 2006. The work of this group is intended as a riposte to the prevalent and widely disseminated concept of the clash of civilisations. In his presentation he spoke of the need to “unlearn intolerance” and thereby touched on a theme that is increasingly debated in educational world more...
Issue 1 Winter 2006 In Europe at the end of the 19th century there was a firm consensus that the education of children should be directed towards nation building. This was the foundation on which national systems of compulsory schooling were built. Industrialized thinking allied with academic traditions led these policies well into the 20th century. more...	Produced by the SWSF Living Education welcomes contributions please send them to the SWSF (click here for contact details) Living Education is produced three times a year: The views expressed in these articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the SWSF. Download the following issues as pdf files Issue 1 - November 2006 Issue 2 - Spring 2007 Issue 3 - Summer 2007
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