Christof J. Wiechert

Since 2024 // Senior Research Fellow at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences

Since 2010 // Visiting lecturer in the Master’s degree program in Education/ Waldorf Education

2001 – 2010 // Head of the Pedagogical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum (Dornach/CH)

1999 – 2001 // Collaboration with Heinz Zimmermann in the Pedagogical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum (Dornach/CH)

Until 1999 // Teacher at the Waldorf School in The Hague

1975 // Co-founder of the teacher training seminar in Zeist (NL)

1973 – 1996 // Board member of the Anthroposophical Society (NL)

1963 – 1968 // Studied Education and Geography in Amsterdam

Born in 1945

Monographs

Wiechert, C. (2021). In het midden de mens. De bronnen van goed onderwijs. Amsterdam: Ef & Ef Media.

Wiechert, C. (2017). You Shall Solve His Riddle…Verlag am Goetheanum.

Wiechert, C. (2014). The Waldorf School: An Introduction. Verlag am Goetheanum.

Wiechert, C. (2010). Looking Forward to Being a Teacher?!. Verlag am Goetheanum.

Editorship

Leubin, A. & Wiechert, C. (eds.) (2019). Conferences with the Teachers of the Independent Waldorf School 1919 to 1924. Volumes One to Three. 5th edition, Basel: Rudolf Steiner Verlag.

Contribution in an edited volume

Wiechert, C. (2019). A methodological indication by Steiner on the practice of anthroposophical anthropology. In P. Lutzker, T. Zdražil, (eds.), Approaches to Rudolf Steiner’s General Anthroposophy. Scientific, artistic and school-practical perspectives (pp. 299 – 311). Stuttgart: Pädagogische Forschungsstelle beim Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen e. V.

Wiechert, C. (2013). Teachers at Waldorf schools – A small polemic on the professional profile of teachers and what is connected with it. In: Heiner Barz (ed.), Teaching at Waldorf Schools. Professional Profile of Waldorf Teachers: New Perspectives on Practice, Research, and Training (pp. 53 – 71). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Wiechert, C. (2013). On the capacity for relationships in the professions of educator and teacher. In: J. Kautz & J. Schieren (eds.), Personality and Relationship as the Foundation of Education (pp.210 – 220). Weinheim et al.: Beltz Juventa Verlag.

Wiechert, C. (2007). Lord, keep my memory green! (Charles Dickens). In: Heiner Barz & Dirk Randoll (eds.), Graduates of Waldorf Schools. An Empirical Study on Education and Life Design (pp.377 – 389). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Journal articles

The image in education, in Erziehungskunst – Waldorf leben, December 2022

The general-human in the art of education, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 71/ June 2021

Space and time in education, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Sectionat the Goetheanum, RB 70/ December 2020

Leadership issues of a new Waldorf school, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 69/ June 2020

The Waldorf school in its second century, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 68/ April 2020

Train a dog…, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 62/ December 2017

Suggestions for daily and timetable planning, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 58/ September 2016

Do you love your teachers?!, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 41/ April 2011

Educational practice, Part 2, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 39/ June 2010

On the question of the three-part structure of the main lesson, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 38/ April 2010

Collected essays in Dutch, working material for Waldorf teachers No.20, Paidos 2010

Developmental pedagogy, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 37/ December 2009

What is contemporary education, in Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, RB 36/ September 2009