Great Barrington Waldorf High School
Waldorf education in the Berkshires
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The Winter 2010 issue of the Globe is now available for download. Read about trips to New York City, arts intensives, and eye-opening interviews with current students. Many thanks to Editor-in-Chief Evan Crispell ’10 for putting this issue together.
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On Friday, January 9, 2010, the Waldorf High School held its first Forum of the New Year. The panel of guests included Waldorf High alums Nadia Bedard, Emma Franco, Eliot Stier, and Samantha Stier. They presented a brief background of how the school began, their roles in pioneering the early years, and why they wanted a high school. Then they answered questions about life after high school, including college strategies, what they wished they’d known, and what they appreciated the most.
photo:David Graves
Steve Sagarin’s article on “What Is Waldorf Education?” has just been re-issued in Southern Cross Review.
The article begins:
“Waldorf education does not exist. It is not a “thing,” and it cannot necessarily be distinguished from good education anywhere. Because it does not exist, it cannot be found in the boxes we call Waldorf schools. To narrow its definition to identify it with schools named Waldorf or Steiner schools, or to identify it with a particular curriculum or technique is to reify Waldorf education in a way that may describe part of what is but necessarily ignores what may also be. What we call Waldorf education may perhaps be found in any school, or anywhere that teachers teach and students learn. There is no characteristic or quality that is unique to what we call Waldorf education that cannot potentially be found somewhere else. Waldorf education, as an idea or set of ideas, slips through the cracks of any structure erected to define it.”
You can read the complete article by going here:
http://southerncrossreview.org/68/sagarin-waldorf.htm
