Crafting a Curriculum of Coherence

Martyn Rawson is Professor for Waldorf Education in International Contexts at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Germany where he is responsible for the International Waldorf Master Programme, following 45 years as teacher and school leader in Waldorf education. He is co-editor of the English-language Waldorf Curriculum, a co-creator of a Waldorf e-learning platform (www.e-learningwaldorf.de) and the author of Steiner Waldorf Pedagogy in Schools and many articles on curriculum, learning theory, second language teaching and teacher education. He also teaches part-time in the high school at the Christian Morgenstern School in Hamburg.Kath Bransby is the Education Coordinator for Waldorf UK and a board member of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education. With Martyn, Kath co-edited an updated English Language curriculum for UK Waldorf schools, and has co-written a number of articles. Kath also works as a senior lecturer in teacher education at Sheffield Hallam University, where she recently completed her Master’s thesis, ‘Why Waldorf?’, an exploration of parents’ and carers’ reasons for choosing Waldorf education for their children.

• 1. Society or Person? Different ways of seeing education 2. A (new) third way 3. What is curriculum? 4. A pedagogical anthropology 5. A developmental approach 6. Potentialities as a basis for dispositions and skills 7. Skills and dispositions 8. Teaching and Learning: some generative principles 9. Teacher Connoisseurship and pedagogical tact