Education for the Future: How to Nurture Health and Human Potential: Experiences and Perspectives from the Global Waldorf School Movement for Education in the 21st Century

"Almost every day you can read somewhere that a fundamental change is needed in schools and the education system.... With this book it is my deep wish to make a contribution to this." --M. Gl�ckler, pediatricianHow do we accompany and support the development of children and adolescents to motivated them to face coming challenges? What skills are needed to solve global problems of social injustice and to deal creatively with the consequences of today's ecological and economic crises? What must the education system become so that it prepares adults to be less molded by existing conditions and thus more capable of seeing the needed changes for the future? Which activities in the classroom are needed so that initiative and entrepreneurial motivation can develop for the realization of new ideas? What does age-appropriate media education look like to teach the best ways to become mature and competent in dealing with information technology?Regardless of the problem we are considering, we ne