Our Pedagogy teachers

Pedagogy

 

Steiner-Waldorf pedagogy is not a "method", but an approach to children. Starting with a clear, wake and caring look, the Waldorf educator catches details on the child's growing process, and respecting this process founds the entire school curricula.

 

It's not just a matter of "slowing down". It's about giving the right thing at the right moment. To help a flower blossom, we need precise impulses in precise moments. Like any other living thing, a child also suffers if we ask him something he's not yet "muscled" for; and suffers also if we deny him something he deserves, given his skills and maturity.

 

That's why Steiner-Waldorf pedagogy doesn't just care about shaping a child with correct learnig steps: to have a complete human being, to help him develop all the talents he hides within, the school curriculum is enriched with artistic and practical subjuects. Music, painting, modeling, woodwork, agriculture, handwork, eurythmy... An anthroposophical approach to education aims to make us free to express our whole being, full of talent, creativity, initiatives, to work in a world who's tired of puppets, a world shouting for personalities full of ideas and will to innovate. 

 

In our Vivere l'Antroposofia course we'll explore also the themes related to pedagogy.

Responsibles for our Pedagogy teaching are Christopher Clouder and Luca Gastaldello.

 

Christopher is teacher and lecturer wide known worldwide; former coordinator of the European Commitee for Steiner-Waldorf Education (ECSWE), former responsible for the UK and Ireland Waldorf Federation. Lectures and gives seminars in the whole planet from decades. Author of various books published internationally about education and child development.

 

At present Christopher is working to build and organize the Liceo dei Colli in Pozzolatico (Florence, Italy), an anthroposophical-inspired high school, using his experience to put Waldorf education at the teenagers' service, to help them get out of school ready for our time's specific challenges.

 

In Vivere l'Antroposofia project Christopher is pedagogical supervisor and as responsible for the quality of our teachers.

 

 

Luca is a Waldorf teacher experienced by variuso teaching cycles: he teaches at the Aurora Waldorf School in Cittadella (Padua, Italy) and works as teachers' trainer in the Aldo Bargero Academy in Oriago (Venice), most important teachers' training centre in Italy.

 

Luca works in pedagogics, art, agriculture, leading activities inside and outside the Waldorf movement, paying special attention to an active exchange between anthroposophical activities, citizens and local governement, emphatizing our chanches to rediscover traditions renewing them thanks to Waldorf education stimuli. 

 

You can look some of his work on the website www.villanegricittadella.com , and contact him at antropospedagogia@gmail.com .