Waldorf

Waldorf education (also known as Steiner or Steiner-Waldorf education) is a pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrates practical, artistic, and conceptual elements, and is coordinated with "natural rhythms of everyday life". The Waldorf approach emphasizes the role of the imagination in learning, developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component.

Studies of the education describe its overarching goal as providing young people the basis on which to develop into free, moral and integrated individuals, and to help every child fulfill his or her unique destiny (the existence of which anthroposophy posits). Schools and teachers are given considerable freedom to define curricula within collegial structures.

The first Waldorf school was founded in 1919; there are now about 1000 independent Waldorf schools and 1400 independent Waldorf kindergartens located in approximately sixty countries throughout the world, making up one of the world's largest independent educational systems; there are also Waldorf-based public and Charter schools, homeschooling environments, and schools for special education, and the methods have also been adopted by numerous educators teaching in other schools, both state and private.

The structure of the education follows :

• Early childhood learning, experiential, imitative and sensory-based, learning through practical activities.
• Elementary school years (age 7-14), artistic and imaginative.
• During adolescence, developing capacity, conceptual judgment , intellectual understanding, ethical thinking and learning social responsibility.

Information about other syllabus

• SSC and SSLC
• National Institute of Open Schooling
• Alternative Education
• Montessori
• CBSE
• ICSE and ISC
• IGCSE - International General Certificate of Secondary Education
• IB - International Baccalaureate