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Steiner nurseries (Steiner Waldorf)
Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian writer and social reformer who was fascinated by the spiritual world. He had been seeing ghostly apparitions from a young age and worked as a clairvoyant during his life.
He was fascinated by ways in which people could harmonise with spirituality and become true individuals, and began applying this ideas to the schools he founded. The first of these, founded in 1919, educated a lot of children whose parents worked in the nearby Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory. This was a significant move in social equality and is why many Steiner nurseries to this day are known as Steiner Waldorf or Waldorf schools, nurseries and kindergartens.
His schools focused on children being able to exercise their will and emotions, as well as learning moral responsibility and exploring who they are as individuals.
Steiner nurseries involve:
- Including and valuing all children.
- Nurturing each child’s mental, social, physical and spiritual needs.
- Generating curiosity and enthusiasm for learning through a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities.
- Promoting independence and exploring individual interests and feelings, alongside awareness and respect for others’ interests and feelings.
