The Child’s Changing Consciousness | Live-translation

The Child’s Changing Consciousness

A lecture by Constanza Kaliks, Philipp Reubke and Peter Selg, held at the World Teachers' Conference 2023 at the Goetheanum on 14th of April 2023.

Children, young people and adults need inner strength, health and resilience. They need intellectual, emotional and social skills to understand and accept the earth, themselves and their fellow human beings. What can we renew in our educational practice to develop what is needed to live together?

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Constanza Kaliks was born in Chile. Studied mathematics and Waldorf education, doctorate in education with dissertation on Nicolaus Cusanus. Worked for 19 years as a Waldorf teacher and lecturer in teacher training in São Paulo, Brazil.

In 2012 she took over the leadership of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum and became a member of the Executive Council of the School of Spiritual Science. Since 2015 she has been a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society and since the beginning of 2022 she has been Leader of the Pedagogical Section.

Philipp Reubke was born in Stuttgart. Studied philosophy and German language and literature. Since 1989 he has been working as a Waldorf teacher in France, first as a German teacher at the Waldorf School in Colmar, since 1996 as a Waldorf kindergarten teacher.

From 2011 to 2020 member of the coordination group of IASWECE (International Association for Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood Education). Member of the International Forum and since October 2020 head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum.

Peter Selg is a member of the leadership of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum, director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Anthroposophical Research and a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy.