Conference for Health and Education
«Supporting Learning and Development – Challenges on the Path of Becoming»: The Conference will take from October 22 to 25 at the Goetheanum.
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«Put your smartphone in its cage»
At the 2025 Learning Support Conference, Karin Michael, Head of the Medical Section, highlighted, amongst other things, the role of sleep in learning.
Annual Report of the Pedagogical Section
«Learning in difficult times» – this theme, chosen for a colloquium, could serve as the motto for the whole of the 2025 working year.
The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting
A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults by Eva Ose Askvik, F. R. (Ruud) van der Weel and Audrey L. H. van der Meer.
«Rhythm cultivates the sense of life»
Here is a short extract from Philipp Reubke’s lecture at last year’s Learning Support Conference.
Language in Waldorf Teacher Education
Read Peter Lutzker’s introduction to the ITEF meeting in June here.
Impulses for working with young children
In its newsletter, the IASWECE looks back on the «World Early Childhood Conference 2026». You’ll find articles that are well worth reading.
UNESCO welcomes Steiner Waldorf
At the end of May, UNESCO welcomed the ECSWE delegation, which included Constanza Kaliks, to Paris to discuss the future of education.
You can find the directory of Steiner Waldorf schools, kindergartens and teacher education centres worldwide here.
An Introduction to Waldorf Perspectives on Learning and Development. An contribution by Frode Barkved.
«Echoing Giants, Stepping Toward the Unknown»
Here, Belle Leung describes how «Resilience and Pedagogy» has reached another milestone: the journey from the questionnaire to «ethical approval».
World Early Childhood Conference 2026 in Pictures
Here you can relive the whole conference through 51 photos. We’re glad you were there!
A brief insight into form drawing
Click here to read Harry Zárate Ceballos’s academic article (in Spanish) on Waldorf Resources.
Learning and teaching throughout life: Constanza Kalik’s lecture at last year’s Michaeli Conference is now available to watch on Goetheanum TV.
Free livestreams for all conference participants
Anyone who attended the World Conference on Nursery Schools and Early Childhood can watch the livestreams free of charge until 12 May 2026.
And just like that, it’s over! The World Early Childhood Conference took place at the Goetheanum from 8 to 12 April 2026.