Waldorf Association Austria
The Waldorf Association Austria is the union of the Austrian Rudolf Steiner and Free Waldorf Schools. It is the Austrian counterpart to the German Federation of Waldorf Schools . The Waldorf Association has its seat in Vienna . The offices are located in the school building of the Rudolf Steiner School Vienna-Mauer in the 23rd district of Liesing .
Self-image and areas of responsibility
Self-image and areas of responsibility
- Bundling of creativity and innovative work done by the individual schools.
- Help and relief for the individual schools through advisory and service offers.
- Representation of the interests of all Waldorf schools towards national socio-political institutions.
- Establishing the pedagogical autonomy of the individual schools led by teachers and parents as a central requirement for the education of free people.
- Pedagogical, economic and legal autonomy should be recognized as a basic principle.
- Promotion and coordination of research and further education in the field of education and self-administration.
- Exchange with representatives of other educational concepts.
- Positive influence on the public education discussion.
- Further development of Waldorf education in Austria at the intersection of current trends and changing anthroposophy.
Regional efforts
In the context of the discussion about the complete assumption of the costs of the Viennese kindergartens by the City of Vienna in 2009, the Waldorf Association, together with the umbrella association of Viennese private kindergartens and after-school care centers, endeavored to achieve full equality of privately and publicly run kindergartens. The motto taken up in the joint efforts was "Every child is worth the same to us" , which the Mayor of Vienna Michael Häupl had actually brought up in a courier interview at the beginning of March 2009 as an application for his efforts for the free kindergarten.
At that time, the Waldorf Association formulated as a medium-term goal for the education sector the assumption of the salaries of teaching staff for the Waldorf schools by the Austrian Federal Government. In mid-March 2009, the news magazine Profil also spanned the arc from the free kindergarten to private schools with the motto mentioned above in an article by Peter Michael Lingens , who explicitly mentioned Waldorf schools.
Web links
- Official website of the Austrian Waldorf Association
- Website Master's degree in Waldorf Education ( Danube University Krems in cooperation with the Center for Culture and Education, Vienna)
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of the Waldorf Association, "Leitbild" , accessed on January 6, 2010.
- ↑ Presentation Dachverband-Grafik.ppt of the umbrella association of the Viennese private kindergartens and after-school care centers, e-mail mailing of the kindergarten college Vienna-Mauer to the parents, April 1st, 2009.
- ↑ derStandard.at, "Nobody knows anything about talks" from March 9, 2009, accessed on January 7, 2010.
- ^ Letters sent to parents of kindergarten children in summer 2009
- ↑ profile online, "The same money for every child - everywhere!" dated March 14, 2009, accessed January 7, 2010.