Glossary

The Temperaments in Teaching in Anthroposophy

The Temperaments in Teaching is the practice by which a Waldorf teacher recognises which of the four classical temperaments predominates in a child and adjusts seating, story, drawing and tone...

Drawing and Painting in Childhood in Anthroposophy

Drawing and painting in childhood name the artistic activity Rudolf Steiner placed before formal reading and writing, so that the young child works with line and colour while the head...

The Pictorial Imagination in Teaching in Anthro...

The pictorial imagination in teaching is the working heart of Waldorf method: between roughly seven and fourteen the child thinks in images, not definitions, so the teacher reaches that inner...

The Will in Education in Anthroposophy

The will in education is the Waldorf teacher's care for the deepest, least conscious layer of the growing child. Rudolf Steiner held that willing cannot be argued into being. It...

Rhythm and Repetition in Teaching in Anthroposophy

Rhythm and repetition in teaching name the Waldorf conviction that an action repeated shapes the human being more deeply than an idea grasped once. A concept lands in a single...

Memory and the Child in Anthroposophy

For Steiner, memory in the child is a riddle of will rather than of intellect. He told the first Waldorf teachers that we cannot order a child to remember any...