Newsletter
March 2017
In This Issue
Conferences
 
April 10 -13, 2017
Kenya:
"The I in the Process of Becoming"
    Mbagathi Steiner School,         Nairobi    

    April 8 - 12, 2017        
South Africa: 
Pan-African Waldorf Teachers  Conference 
"Unfolding Future Human Potential"
Johannesbur g
 
April 28 - May 5, 2017
China:
Asia Waldorf Teachers Conference
Chengdu

May 19 - 21, 2017
France:
"Free Play: How to Make it Possible Every Day"
Lyon

    June 3 - 6, 2017      
Germany: 
Waldorf Early Childhood  Whitsun Conference
Hannover

   July 3 - 6, 2017      
Australia: 
Waldorf Teachers Conference  2017  
"Building on the Foundations"
Sydney
 
July 23 - 29, 2017 
 Germany: 
Workshops for translators of Ellersiek Hand Gesture Games, 
Stuttgart

You can find detailed information on these conferences on the IASWECE website in the section "News and events"  under
"Other Conferences"

If you would like to announce a conference, please contact us at  info@iaswece.org
 
Recent Research
Imitation, Interaction and Recognition. Communication between Children and Adults in the Waldorf Kindergarten.  Article by Arve Mathisen and Frode Thorjussen from the Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo, Norway.

Summaries and link to this and other articles:

Collaboration with other Organizations

Joint ECSWE/IASWECE Meeting in Tartu, Estonia, October 2016

Read the article in the ECSWE Newsletter


The Save Childhood Movement is preparing an International Festival of Childhood
in Bath (United Kingdom) from the 29th June to 2nd July 2017.  
"Transitions in Childhood from Birth to 14 Years" - New Publication!

The lectures from the 2015 "Transitions" conference by Clara Aerts, Ursula Flatters, Elizabeth Hall, Florian Osswald, Claus-Peter Röh and Susan Weber are now available in print
 
 H ow You Can Help 
   
I ASWECE gives financial and pedagogical support to projects in order to develop and maintain the quality of Waldorf early childhood education throughout the world. 
 
International Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Positions and Internships
Steiner/Waldorf kindergartens:
Are you looking for a trained kindergarten teacher from outside your country?

Waldorf kindergarten teachers: 
Are you looking for a position in another country?

Waldorf Early Childhood training students:
  Are you looking for an international internship?

In future issues of the newsletter,  we can post your request here. Please write to info@iaswece@org. 

Current postings: 

 Job offer in a kindergarten in the UK

 
Our Sponsor:

Mercurius International
Dear friends and colleagues,
 
In this issue you can read about a Waldorf kindergarten in the Dominican Republic which is free of charge for all those who cannot afford to pay tuition, about Early Childhood educators in Indonesia who are organizing public events on the importance of grandparents, about the Waldorf kindergarten curriculum which has now been approved by the Russian government, and about outreach and deepening of the ideals of Waldorf education as the 100 year celebration of the first Waldorf school approaches in 2019.

Also: please don't forget to have a look on the impressive list of study material that the IASWECE Birth to Three Working Group has gathered as study preparation for regional conferences on "Sleep". 

With warm wishes on behalf of the IASWECE Coordinating Group, 
 
Philipp Reubke  
Waldorf 100
  Plans for Celebrating 100 Years of 
Waldorf Education 
  Philipp Reubke   

In addition to the many outreach projects you can find here, the International Forum and the Council of IASWECE would also like to encourage teachers and parents responsible for Waldorf institutions to work intensively with the question: What is Waldorf pedagogy? 

Those who ask this question and expect to get a package of recipes and methods, as well as a suitcase full of "Waldorf materials," are always disappointed. 

Henning Kullak-Ublick, the coordinator of the Waldorf 100 celebrations, writes: "Waldorf education is much less bound to traditional forms than to the shared pedagogical ethos that always arises anew from working with the evolving human being."

Waldorf Early Childhood Education Worldwide
 
"Life Rhythms in Various Phases of Human Life"
Waldorf Kindergarten Conference in Russia
 
Svetlana Efremova and Elena Gramotkina

Waldorf Education in the Dominican Republic  
 
Louise deForest 

Fiji: The "Flame Tree" Waldorf Kindergarten
Edith van der Meer
 
Seeds Planted in Indonesia -
Jag Alit Kindergarten in Bandung

Manda Wellang

News from IASWECE
Conferences 
on the Importance of Sleep - 
 
New Study Material 
 

The IASWECE Birth to Three Working Group has gathered an impressive list of study material for all those who want to prepare regional conferences on the importance of sleep. 

In the section "Resources for IASWECE Meetings on Sleep" on the IASWECE website,  you can find seven articles on this theme from the point of view of Waldorf education, and twelve general research reports on sleep and education. 
You can also find articles in Portugese, Spanish and Russian.

A collection of quotes by Rudolf Steiner on this theme will be available soon.

If you would like more information or want to organize a conference on sleep, please contact info@iawsece.org. 



The IASWECE Newsletter is published on behalf of the IASWECE Council by Philipp Reubke, with support from Clara Aerts, Susan Howard and Lara Radysh.

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