IASWECE Newsletter
June 2015

Dear friends and colleagues,

 

In this issue of the Newsletter we would like to take you on a trip around the globe, from the perspective of a Waldorf early childhood educator. You can find reports on conferences (in Japan, Romania, Dornach, Colombia and Costa Rica), further training (in Ukraine), work in country associations (India and Cezch Republic) and impressive descriptions of the joys and challenges involved in founding new Waldorf kindergartens (in Turkey and the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon).

 

Waldorf kindergartens are not islands - they are deeply woven into the political and social conditions of our times. This issue offers three short reports where you can read about the US government's expectation that five-year-olds can read and the EU ministry's recommendation to its member countries to support digital competence in early childhood education. What can we do? Several articles offer a response: we need to really look at the essential foundations of Waldorf education and - as a colleague from Turkey mentions - not lose our sense of humor!

Warm greetings on behalf of the IASWECE Coordinating Group!

Philipp Reubke 


In This Issue
Asia Waldorf Teachers Conference
Romania
Transitions - Looking Back
Colombia
Costa Rica
IASWECE Council Meeting
Ukraine
India
Czech Republic
Turkey
Lebanon

Susan Howard, USA

Philipp Reubke, France
 






Yaneth Beltran, Maria Rita Aristizabal,       Maria Isabel Vasquez  

 

Yolanda Guttierrez, Costa Rica 

 

 

 

Susan Howard, USA



Alla Kosak and Tatiania Sabrodina, Ukraine 

 

 

  

"Every Kindergarten is a Research Center"
Tania SmolkovaCzech Republic
 

Duygu Gümüs and Pınar Anıl Hacaloğlu,Turkey 

 

 

 

 

 

Bernard Merzenich, Germany

 

The IASWECE Newsletter is published on behalf of the IASWECE Council by Clara Aerts, Susan Howard and Philipp Reubke    

 

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IASWECE gives financial and pedagogical support to projects in order to develop and maintain the quality of Waldorf early childhood education all over the world. 
 




 "Learning to Read in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose"

"European Ministers of Education Want to Foster and Limit Childhood Creativity at the Same Time"

"Child Development in Education Integrating Neuroscience with Education in Policy and Practice"  
 

 



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