Personal Data
Born in 1957

Studies

Studied to become a secondary school teacher in German, History, and Social Studies 

First and Second State Examinations and Philosophicum at LMU Munich 

Professional Experience

1986-2000: Upper school teacher at the Freie Waldorfschule Prien 

since 1992: Lecturer in Waldorf education and subject didactics at various seminar institutions 

since 1997: Advisory board member of the Pädagogische Forschungsstelle 

since 2000: Coordination and teaching activities for the International Association for Waldorf Education in Central and Eastern Europe 

since 2006: Lecturer at the Teacher Training Seminar for Waldorf Education Kassel 

since 2008: Lecturer at Alanus University 

2012 Doctorate at Georg August University in Göttingen 

2013: Junior Professor of History Didactics at Alanus University 

2018: Professor of Didactics of Cultural Studies at Alanus University

Books

2021
History Middle School – The Emergence of Modern Civilization. Technology, Economy, Environment, and Society. A workbook for students. Kassel: Pädagogische Forschungsstelle.

History Middle School – The Emergence of Modern Civilization. A handbook for teachers accompanying the workbook for students. Download: https://www.waldorfbuch.de/_files_media/media_center/download/modernezivilisationbegleitheftendfassung_18.pdf

2020
History in Waldorf Schools. Creating an Individual Consciousness of History. Stuttgart: edition waldorf 2020.

2017 
Youth Pedagogy in the Waldorf School. Study Book. (Ed. together with Angelika Wiehl). Kassel 2017. 

2013 
(with Hans-Paul Fiechter): Reading Faust. Goethe’s “Faust” in Teaching Practice. Pädagogische Forschungsstelle, Kassel 2013. 

2012 
History Teaching at the Waldorf School. Genesis and Realization of Its Concept Against the Background of Current History Didactics Discourse. Frankfurt/M. 2012.

2011 
(with Hesse, S./ Voß, T.): Göbekli Tepe and the Process of Sedentarization. From Archaeology to Historical Insight. Pädagogische Forschungsstelle, Kassel, 2011.

2010 
(with Ketels, J.): Globalized Economy Using Cotton as an Example. With 21 worksheets as copy templates for a teaching unit in grade 11. Pädagogische Forschungsstelle, Kassel, 2010.

2006 
(with Maris, B.): Sex Education in Waldorf Education. Stuttgart 2006. 

Editorships

Handbook of Upper School Teaching at Waldorf Schools. (Ed. together with Stephan Sigler and Wilfried Sommer). Weinheim/ Basel: Belz Juventa 2019.

Youth Pedagogy in the Waldorf School. Study Book. (Ed. together with Angelika Wiehl). Kassel 2017. 

(together with Rita Schumacher) the series GESCHICHTE gestalten + entdecken (5 volumes to date, more to follow), published by Pädagogische Forschungsstelle Kassel. 

(together with Rita Schumacher) the series DEUTSCH gestalten + entdecken (4 volumes to date, three more currently in preparation), published by Pädagogische Forschungsstelle Kassel. 

the series Sozialkunde gestalten + entdecken (3 volumes to date), published by Pädagogische Forschungsstelle Kassel. 

Articles/Book Chapters

2024

History Teaching in Immigration Societies. Empowerment for Cultural Dialogue, Tolerance of Ambiguity, Decolonial Narration, and Individual Meaning-Making. In Martyn Rawson/ Frank Steinwachs (eds.): Waldorf School, Globalization and Postcolonialism – An Attempt at Approximation. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 237-267.

The Transformation of Historical Consciousness and Historical Images into a Culture of Dialogical History. In: Jörg van Norden/ Lale Yildirim (eds.): Historical Consciousness – Historical Images – Future. Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 124-137.

Cosmopolitanism as a Political Mandate of History Didactics. A Contribution to the Debate. In: Jörg van Norden/ Lale Yildirim (eds.): Historical-Political Education in Discourse. Perspectives of History Didactics. Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 22-32.

2023

We Cannot Go on Like This … Forum History – an Initiative to Establish the Understanding of Culture and History at Waldorf Schools. In: Journal für Waldorfpädagogik No. 5 May 2023, pp. 40-56.

School Autonomy and Collaborative Governance as Constitutive Elements of Waldorf Schools. In: Jost Schieren (Ed.): Handbook of Research on Waldorf Education. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 513-531.

The Anthroposophic Understanding of History from the Point of View of Waldorf Education, Education Science, and History Teaching. In: Jost Schieren (Ed.): Handbook of Research on Waldorf Education. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 438-461.

The Waldorf Curriculum: Curriculum, Teaching Plan, or Guideline? In: Jost Schieren (Ed.): Handbook of Research on Waldorf Education. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 303-317.

The War of Narratives. Cultural Belongings in the Russian-Ukrainian Sphere. In: Sozialimpulse. Rundbrief Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus No. 1 April 2023, pp. 3-15.

2022

The Transition from Childhood to Adolescence – an Essayistic Topography. In: Journal für Waldorfpädagogik No. 4, October 2022, pp. 32-47.

Reception-Aesthetic Reflections on Visiting Historical Sites. The Phenomenon of Atmosphere. In: Jörg van Norden/ Lale Yildirim (eds.): Historical Experience. Frankfurt/ M.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 126-146.

Is History Teaching at Waldorf Schools Scientifically Founded? In: Erziehungskunst. Waldorfpädagogik heute. 04/ 2022, pp. 27-30.

Understanding and Further Developing the Anthroposophical Idea. Rudolf Steiner on Sexuality and Gender. In: Sven Saar (ed.): Beziehungskunst. Humanity, Identity and Sex Education in the Waldorf School. Stuttgart: edition waldorf, pp. 20—29.

Relationship and Sex Education. An Overview from First to Twelfth Grade. In: Sven Saar (ed.): Beziehungskunst. Humanity, Identity and Sex Education in the Waldorf School. Stuttgart: edition waldorf, pp. 282—294.

Relationship and Sex Education. An Overview with a Closer Look at Puberty. In Erziehungskunst. Waldorfpädagogik heute. 01/02 2022, pp. XVIII-XXI.

2021

Waldorf Schools as Civil Society Institutions. In: Journal für Waldorfpädagogik 3. Special topic: Independent School, State and Social Diversity. November 2021, pp. 50-57.

Dialogical History. Reflections on History Teaching in the Immigration Society. In: Lars Deile/ Jörg van Norden/ Peter Riedel (eds.): Focal Points of Contemporary History Teaching. Joachim Rohlfes on His 90th Birthday. Frankfurt/ M.: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 113-124.

“Cosmopolitanism as a Political Mandate of History Didactics?” Reader for the KGD working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch” on 20/21.09.2021 at Bielefeld University on the topic “History Didactics – Political?”

History Middle School – The Emergence of Modern Civilization. Technology, Economy, Environment, and Society. A workbook for students. Kassel: Pädagogische Forschungsstelle.

History Middle School – The Emergence of Modern Civilization. A handbook for teachers accompanying the workbook for students. Download: https://www.waldorfbuch.de/_files_media/media_center/download/modernezivilisationbegleitheftendfassung_18.pdf

School and Teaching Autonomy as a Prerequisite for a Pedagogy of Individuation. In: Leonhard Weiss/ Carlo Willmann (eds.): Being and Becoming. Contributions to the Developmental Understanding of Waldorf Education. Vienna: LIT 2021, pp. 117-132.

2019 

The Significance of Imagination, Image, Myth, and Symptom for Historical Narration. In: Angelika Wiehl/ Matthias Bunge (eds.): Image Experiences in the In-Between Space of Art and Pedagogy. Salzburg 2019, pp. 186-204.

Tradition, Self-Understanding and Relevance of the Waldorf School. In: Angelika Wiehl (ed.): Study Book Waldorf Education.Bad Heilbrunn 2019, pp. 319-330.

Idea and Practice of History Teaching at Waldorf Schools. In: Jörg van Norden/ Wanda Schürenberg: Learning Progression of Narrative Competence in History Teaching. A Comparison of Waldorf and Mainstream Schools. Frankfurt/ M. 2019, pp. 27-46.

(Together with Jörg van Norden) Outlook on the Comparative Study of Waldorf and Mainstream Schools. In: Jörg van Norden/ Wanda Schürenberg: Learning Progression of Narrative Competence in History Teaching. A Comparison of Waldorf and Mainstream Schools. Frankfurt/ M. 2019, pp. 403-406.

“Nobody Understands Me…” – The Challenging Developmental Phase of Puberty. In: Stefanie Greubel/ Jost Schieren (eds.): Children, Children! Perspectives on Child Development, Support, and Educational Attitude. Weinheim/ Basel 2019, pp. 117-133.

Straightening Oneself Up in Relation to the World. In: Peter Lutzker/ Tomas Zdrazil (eds.): Approaches to Rudolf Steiner’s General Study of the Human Being. Scholarly, Artistic, and School-Practical Perspectives. Stuttgart 2019, pp. 127-140.

Intercultural or Transcultural Perspectives in History Teaching at Waldorf Schools. In: Christiane Adam/ Albert Schmelzer (eds.): Interculturality and Waldorf Education. Weinheim/ Basel 2019, pp. 138-157.

Gender as a Task of Waldorf Education. Interview. In: Info 3, June 2019, pp. 28—31

History Teaching at Waldorf Schools. – Historical Consciousness and Identity Formation in Hybrid Lifeworlds. In: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (GWU) vol. 70, issue 3/4 March/April 2019, pp. 199-215.

The Waldorf School, Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order Idea, and the Complex Mandate of a Republican School Administration. In: Lehrerrundbrief des Bundes der Freien Waldorfschulen No. 108. Special topic: Threefolding and School Administration. February 2019, pp.7-24. 

2018 

How Young People Find Themselves. In: Schulkreis. Journal of the Rudolf Steiner Schools in Switzerland. pp.5-8. 

Education Needs and Creates Trust. In: Erziehungskunst 12/2018, pp.16-19. 

Education and Waldorf Education. In: Handbook of Upper School Teaching at Waldorf Schools. (Ed. together with Stephan Sigler and Wilfried Sommer). Weinheim/Basel 2018, pp. 12-72. 

Subject-Didactic Contributions: History. In: Handbook of Upper School Teaching at Waldorf Schools. (Ed. together with Stephan Sigler and Wilfried Sommer). Weinheim/Basel 2018, pp. 289-346.

Formation of Judgment in Upper School Teaching at Waldorf Schools. In: Richard Landl (ed.): Setting Out into the World. Waldorf Educational Foundations of the Upper School with Teaching Examples. Dornach 2018, pp. 50-71

Interview on the Upper School. Richard Landl, Peter Lutzker, M. Michael Zech. In: Richard Landl (ed.): Setting Out into the World. Waldorf Educational Foundations of the Upper School with Teaching Examples. Dornach 2018, pp. 77-99. 

2017 

A Cultural Studies Approach to Opening Up Medieval Literature in Schools. Curriculum and Teaching Practice at Waldorf Schools. In: Detlef Goller, Sabrina Hufnagel, Isabell Brähler-Körner (eds.): Heroes in School. Proceedings of the Kloster Banz Conference 2014. Bamberg (MIMASCH 3), 2017., pp. 303-321. 

Anthroposophical Youth Pedagogy and the Challenges of the Early 21st Century. In: Angelika Wiehl/ M. Michael Zech Hrsg.): Youth Pedagogy in the Waldorf School. Study Book. (Ed. together with Angelika Wiehl),Kassel 2017, pp. 77-16. 

Paper for the conference of the KGD working group World and Global History Perspectives in History Teaching on the topic The Interwar Period 1919-1939 Viewed from a Global History Perspective – Perspectives for History Teaching on 12/13.02.2018 at Augsburg University: Nationalist or ideological self-concepts in the field of tension between democratic and autocratic-totalitarian concepts of the state. A global history view of the interwar period 1919-1939 using examples. 

Paper for the 4th workshop of the KGD working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch” on the topic “Theory Formation in History Didactics between Lifeworld and Science” on 19/20.03.2018 at Bielefeld University: Ten theses on history teaching in the field of tension between lifeworld and scholarly orientation. 

Paper for the 4th workshop of the working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch“ of the Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik (KGD) on the topic “Lifeworlds”, planned for 03.-04.03.2017 at the Ludwigsburg University of Education: Nine theses on history teaching and lifeworld – connecting, opening up, unlocking. (The workshop had to be canceled for organizational reasons.) 

Paper for the conference of the KGD working group “World and Global History Perspectives in History Teaching” on the topic “The First World War Viewed from a Global History Perspective – Perspectives for History Teaching” on 13/14 February 2017 at Augsburg University: From the genocide of the Herero via the genocide of the Armenians in the First World War to the Holocaust. Justification of a teaching sequence for initiating historical judgment formation. (Contribution on 13.02.2017) 

Gender Awareness. In: Erziehungskunst June 2017, pp. 16-19; also online 

History Teaching at the Age of Puberty. Contribution for the Lehrerrundbrief des Bundes der Freien Waldorfschulen No. 106, May 2017, pp. 67-85. 

2016 

Norm Formation Instead of Norm Transmission in History Teaching – Judgment Formation as a Process of Individuation. Paper for the 3rd workshop of the WG “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch” of the KGD on “Normative Questions of History” at FU Berlin between 06.-08. April 2016. 

Formation of Judgment in Upper School Teaching at Waldorf Schools. In: Lehrerrundbrief No. 104 of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen, February 2016, pp. 35-52. 

The Colloquium on Upper School Pedagogy of the Pedagogical Section (Report). In: Lehrerrundbrief No. 104 of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen, February 2016, pp. 7-8 

Anthropological Aspects of the Methodology and Didactics of the Upper School (with Tobias Richter). In: Tobias Richter (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. 4th, expanded and updated edition, Stuttgart 2016, pp.125-132. 

Horizontal Curriculum of the Upper School (with Christian Böttger). In: Tobias Richter (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. 4th, expanded and updated edition, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 133-160. 

Field of Gestaltung: Sex Education. In: Tobias Richter (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. 4th, expanded and updated edition, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 338-33; also: Sex Education – an overview from grades 1 to 12. 

Social Studies in Research and Teaching. In: Erziehungskunst 10, October 2016. 

LR: Exchange, Encounter, and Cooperation in Difficult Times. Armenian-Georgian-Russian-Ukrainian teachers’ conference in Yerevan 2016 (Report). In: Lehrerrundbrief No. 105 of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen, October 2016, pp. 64-69. 

International Professional Development Week in Kassel. In: Lehrerrundbrief No. 105 of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen, October 2016, pp. 94-97. 

International Conference of Steiner/Waldorf Education – Hague Circle. In: Lehrerrundbrief No. 105 of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen, October 2016, pp. 16-18. 

German as a Native Language (with Christine Krauch, Claus-Peter Röh, Rita Schumacher). In: Tobias Richter (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. 4th, expanded and updated edition, Stuttgart 2016. 

History. In: Tobias Richter (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. 4th, expanded and updated edition, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 284-312. 

Social Studies (with Till Ungefug). In: Tobias Richter (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. 4th, expanded and updated edition, Stuttgart 2016, pp. 313-337. 

The Waldorf Curriculum – Curriculum, Teaching Plan, or Framework Guideline? In: Jost Schieren (ed.): Handbook of Waldorf Education and Educational Science. Current Position and Development Perspectives. Weinheim 2016, pp. 572 – 597. 

The Anthroposophical Understanding of History Against the Background of Waldorf Educational, Educational-Scientific, and Subject-Didactic Positions. In: Jost Schieren (ed.): Handbook of Waldorf Education and Educational Science. Current Position and Development Perspectives. Weinheim 2016, pp. 812-856. 

School Autonomy and Self-Administration as Constitutive Elements of Waldorf Schools, In: Jost Schieren (ed.): Handbook of Waldorf Education and Educational Science. Current Position and Development Perspectives. Weinheim 2016, pp. 976 -1007. 

Connection Between Peoples in a Time of Conflict. Armenian-Georgian-Russian-Ukrainian Waldorf Teachers’ Conference in Yerevan 2016. In: Erziehungskunst 12, December 2016.

2015 

Topos and Site of Memory FOREST – a Cultural-Historical Consideration of the Central European Landscape. In: Research on Steiner Education (RoSE) Vol 6, 2015. 

Paper on “History Culture in Hybrid Lifeworlds”. Second workshop of the working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch”,04. to 06. March 2015, Ludwigsburg University of Education: “Historical Consciousness and Identity Formation in Hybrid Lifeworlds – an Insight into the Current Contexts of Justification of History Teaching at Waldorf Schools” 

Civil Society and Waldorf Education in Ukraine. Final Assessment on the Occasion of the “EXPERIMENT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WALDORF EDUCATION IN UKRAINE” In: Rundbrief Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners. Spring 2015. 

Individual Identity Formation and Civil Responsibility as an Educational Goal – an Interim Assessment on the Occasion of the Final Evaluation of the “All-Ukrainian Experiment “Development of Waldorf Education in Ukraine” (Decree of the Ministry of Education No. 363 of 06.05.2001) Translated and published for the Ministry of Education and Science in Ukraine, Dyke Pole Publishing House, Zaporizhzhia 2015. 

History Teaching and Identity Formation in the Field of Tension Between Individuality, Culturality, and Globality. In: RoSE Journal, Vol 6 Special issue / ENASTE pp. 133-141 December 2015 Hosted at www.rosejourn.com. 

On the Instrumentalization of Civil Society Reform Needs by Nationalism and Great Power Politics. In: Anthroposophie. Quarterly Journal Christmas 2015. 

2014 

History as Meaning-Making and the Problem of Reality. In: Research on Steiner Education (RoSE) Vol 5, 2014:90-99 

Young Meaning-Seekers Need Courageous Teachers: Erziehungskunst 02/2014 

2013 

The Founding Idea of Waldorf Schools and the Problem of School or Teacher Autonomy in the International Context. IN: Barz, H.: Teaching at Waldorf Schools. The Waldorf Teacher Profession: New Perspectives on Practice, Research, and Training. Wiesbaden 2013: 21-51. 

Waldorf Schools as an Example of Lived School Autonomy in the Free Market. IN: Randoll, D./ da Veiga, M.: Waldorf Education in Practice and Training. Between Tradition and Necessary Reforms. Wiesbaden 2013: 11-24. 

2012 

Foreword to: Curriculum of the Ukrainian Waldorf Schools for Grades 10 and 11 [Title translated into German]. Kyiv 2012. 

(with Riethmüller, W.): Setting the Course and Making Decisions for Teacher Education. IN: Lehrerrundbrief 02/2012: 6-10. 

Waldorf Schools Are Threatened with Becoming Profileless in the Upper School. IN: Erziehungskunst 02/2012: 20-23. 

2011 

Don’t Sell Off the Family Silver! A Plea for Retaining the Historical Overview Epoch in Grade 12. IN: Erziehungskunst Spezial 10/2011: 17-18. 

“Septennials” as a Heuristic Instrumentarium – or: Why Waldorf Education Is Effective. An Essay on Steiner’s Developmental Concept. IN: Newsletter of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum No. 42, Michaelmas 2011. 

2010 

Curriculum of Waldorf Schools in Ukraine: Grades 1-9. (translated into Ukrainian). IN: Grassroots Curriculum Work at Waldorf Schools in International Cooperation. Kiev 2010: 6-9. 

(with Patzlaff, R., Schirmer, H., Schuchhardt) Native Language (German). IN: Richter, Tobias (ed.): Educational Mission and Teaching Goals – from the Waldorf School Curriculum. (1st ed. 1995) Stuttgart, 3rd ed. 2010. 

2009 

90 Years of Waldorf Education – an Outline of the Founding Situation and the International Development of Waldorf Schools from 1919 to 2009. (translated into Ukrainian). IN: Waldorf Education in Ukraine. Kiev 2009: 9-66. 

2008 

Pregnant with the Self. Pedagogy in the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence. IN: Erziehungskunst May 2008, 521-528. 

Translation: Enfanter le moi. In: L’esprit du temps. Revue anthroposophique trimestrielle. Autome 2008. 

2002 

Outdated or Contemporary? The Nibelungen Saga as Teaching Material. IN: Erziehungskunst 01/2002: 11-18. 

Participation in the sixth colloquium “Image and Pedagogy” of Alanus University at the Freie Akademie Mannheim on 27/28.04.2018 

Lectures and Conference Contributions

2024

• 29.11.-01.12.24 Leadership of the 3rd working meeting of Forum History in Mannheim
• History teachers’ conference of the Bund der FWS in Berlin, lecture “The Atmosphere of Historical Places, the Constitution of Spaces through Presences, and the Qualities of Historical Experience – a Didactics of Walking Through”
• 29./30.08. Teacher training Helsinki Snellmann Institute: Three lectures 1. “Cultural Diversität and Modern Cosmopolitism versus Neonationalism and Closed Identy – Educational Tasks Freed from Tradition” 2. “Learn to Judge and to Think – Raise oneself up in Close Connection to the World”
  3. “Waldorf Pedagogy today and its Relation to Current Discourses and Challenges”
• Vienna Center for Culture and Pedagogy – affiliated institute of Alanus University: Summer Academy 08.-12.07.24: Lectures 1. “Cultural History in the Waldorf School – a Critique” 2. “The Great Metamorphosis – Transition from Childhood to Adolescence”
• Kosice/ Slovakia teacher training 01.-05.07.24 seminar on youth pedagogy
• 7./8.06.24 Teacher training Atelierschule Zurich “Transformations from Childhood to Adolescence. Training on pedagogical support for developmental tasks in grades 7-10”
• 16.05.24 Flensburg lecture
• Riejeka/ Croatia 22-24.03.24 teacher training “Physical and psychological development, age 14-21”
• Denmark 14./15.03.24 teacher training “Professional network meeting for teachers in grades 7-12 and Annual General Meeting for Steinerskolerne in Denmark

2023

• 7.12.23 Lecture in the lecture series at FH Stuttgart “History Teaching in Global and Culturally Diverse Contexts. A Critical Reflection on Cultural History at Waldorf Schools”
• International Campus online lecture “am 12.12.23 The Challenge with Cultural History in Waldorf Steiner Schools”
• 1.-3.12.23 Leadership of the 2nd working meeting “Forum History” in Mannheim
• Lecture on 07.07.23 “Youth Pedagogy – Foundations of a Waldorf Upper School Pedagogy” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “WALDORF SCHOOL AND ZEITGEIST” at Liceul Waldorf Timișoara
• Lecture on 04.07.23 “Pedagogical Framework Conditions of Our Time (Under what conditions will the life of the next generation be realized?)” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “WALDORF SCHOOL AND ZEITGEIST” at Liceul Waldorf Timișoara
• Lecture on 13.04.23 “From the Future into Bodily Presence – History as Educational and Self-Experience in the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence” at the 11th World Teachers’ Conference in Dornach/ Switzerland
• 06.04 Closing lecture at the International Professional Development Week for upper school teachers “History Teaching Today – Challenges, Perspectives, Tasks”     

2022

• Leadership of the founding meeting “Forum History” – a project to revise history teaching at Waldorf schools in Kassel 2.-4.12.2022
• Stuttgart Public lecture at Forum 3: The War of Narratives. Cultural Belongings in the Russian-Ukrainian Sphere on 21.10.2022 at the research colloquium of the Institute for Contemporary Social Issues “War in Europe – Driver or Blocker of Transformation?”
• Participation with a contribution in the KGD working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch” from 28.-30.09.2022 at the University of Luxembourg on the topic “Historical Images, Historical Consciousness, Future” with the contribution “The Transformation of Historical Consciousness and Historical Images into a Culture of Dialogical History”
• Lecture at the INASTE Congress 18.-20.05.2022 in Vienna on 20.05.2022: History Teaching in Immigration Societies – Empowerment for Cultural Dialogue, Tolerance of Ambiguity, and Individual Meaning-Making.
• Kassel 08.04.2022 Opening lecture at the 14th International Professional Development Week at the Teacher Training Seminar for Waldorf Education: The “grand metamorphosis from childhood to adolescence – on the anthropological foundation of upper school teaching
•   Online Frankfurt/ M. lecture on 25.02.2022 at the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt- series Waldorf IMPULS: How Does Waldorf Continue After Steiner? 100 Years of Waldorf School – development – original impulse – current relevance of Waldorf education.
• Munich 29.04.-01.05.2022: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Goethe
• Online Munich 18.-20.03.2022: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education II.
• Online Munich 28.-30.01.2022: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education I.
• Leadership and organization of the 14th cultural studies research colloquium of the Pädagogische Forschungsstelle in the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen with his own contributions on 07./08.01.2022 in Kassel.

2021

• Witten 12.11.2021 lecture at the delegates’ conference of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen:  “Signatures of the Times”
• Zurich 30.09./ 01.10.2021 Swiss teacher training for middle schools: lecture “Forms of Thinking and Judgment Formation in Upper School Teaching with Special Consideration of Grades 11 and 12” and seminar on history and art history teaching in grades 9-12 at WS
• Participation with a contribution in the working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch” of the KGD on 20./21.09.2021 at Bielefeld University on the topic “History Didactics – Political?” with the contribution “Cosmopolitanism as a Political Mandate of History Didactics?”
• Lecture 03.07.2021 “Faust- an Anthropology” at the conference in Dornach from 02.-04.07.2021 “To Stand on Free Soil with a Free People – On Faust, Freedom, and Law”
• Online Munich 23.-25.04.2021: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Goethe
• Online Munich 23.-25.04.2021: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Goethe
• Online lecture at the 13th International Professional Development Week at the Teacher Training Seminar for Waldorf Education 26.03.2021: “The Significance of Historical Imagination and the Atmosphere of Historical Places for Educational Processes”
• Online Munich 19.-21.03.2021: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education II.
• Online Munich 29.-31.01.2021: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education I.

2020

• Participation with a contribution in the working group “Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch” of the KGD on 02./03.03.2019 at FU Berlin on the topic “Historical Experience” with the contribution “Historical Atmosphere”
• Leadership and organization of the 13th cultural studies research colloquium of the Pädagogische Forschungsstelle in the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen with his own contributions on 10./11.01.2020 in Kassel.

2019

Mannheim 02.11.2019: Public lecture on the occasion of the book presentation Christiane Adam/ Albert Schmelzer (eds.): Interculturality and Waldorf Education. “Intercultural or transcultural perspectives in history teaching at Waldorf schools”.

Darmstadt 18.10.2019: Public lecture: “100 Years of Waldorf Education – Historical Conditions of Emergence and Current Challenges”.

Bad Nauheim 15.08.2019: Public lecture at FWS Wetterau “1919 – 2019. 100 Years  of Waldorf Education – historical conditions of emergence and current challenge”.

Berlin 01.-02.08.2019: Teacher training on middle and upper school pedagogy in three units.

University of Warsaw 07.-09.06.2019: Five lectures on self-education and self-management in educational professions

University of Warsaw: Opening lecture at an educational science congress on 17.05.2019 “100 Years of Waldorf Education”: 100 Years of Waldorf Education – facing the challenges of the 21st century. 

Munich 03.-05.05.2019: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Goethe’s phenomenology and phenomenological teaching approaches. 

Kassel 16.04.2019: Symbolism in Goethe and Cassirer – The Self-World Relationship in Upper School Teaching (plenary lecture at the 11th International Professional Development Week for upper school teachers, together with Rita Schumacher). 

Munich 15.-17.03.2019: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education II. 

Ostrava (Czech Republic) 27.02.-01.03.2019: Teacher training on upper school pedagogy at Waldorf schools and two public lectures on educational tasks in the 21st century. 

Ismaning 23.02.2019: Opening lecture at the Faust Festival at RSS Ismaning: Faust – an anthropology of modern humanity. 

Mannheim 22.02.2019: Opening lecture at the history teachers’ conference of the Bund der FWS at the Academy for Waldorf Education in Mannheim: Historical Education in the 21st Century – The Development of a Human, Dialogical, Individual Historical Consciousness in Waldorf Schools. 

Munich 15.-17.02.2019: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education I. 

Invited lecture on 12.02.2019 at Augsburg University for the KGD working group World and Global History Perspectives in History Teaching: 100 Years of World and Cultural History at Waldorf Schools in the Tension Between Conceptual Continuity and Change. 

Nuremberg 24.01.2019: Teacher training at RSS Nuremberg on the topic: Anthroposophical aspects of sexuality; and public lecture on: Curriculum aspects of sex education. 

Berlin 17.01.2019: Lecture at FWS Berlin Märkisches Viertel: Straightening Oneself Up in Relation to the World – The Challenges of Digitalization, Shaping Society, and Caring for Our Biosphere. 

2018 

Balingen 24.11.2018: Against the Grain – What Is Education Aiming At? Lecture on the significance of examinations in upper school teaching on the occasion of a book presentation at FWS Balingen. 

Cape Town/ South Africa 15.-17.10.2018: three lectures “Transformation from Childhood”, “Identity and the Tasks of Development”, “Education of Judgements as a Personal Transformation” at the Constantia Waldorfschool in Capetown/ South Africa colloquium. 

Rudolf Steiner School Ittigen near Bern (Switzerland) 31.08.-01.09.2018 Swiss-Italian teacher training for middle schools: lecture and seminar (together with Rita Schumacher, Stephan Sigler and Wilfried Sommer). 

FWS Wetterau/ Bad Nauheim 03.08.2018 contribution to teacher training: Waldorf education in the upheaval of puberty. 

FWS Kassel 02.08.2018: Two contributions to teacher training: The problem of working with texts by R. Steiner; What is spoken and what is unspoken – the passages not transcribed in Steiner’s General Study of the Human Being. 

Dnipro (Ukraine) 24.-28.06.2018: Armenian-Georgian-Russian-Ukrainian professional development event for upper school pedagogy. 5 lectures on justifying contemporary educational tasks. 

Offenburg 11.04.2018: FWS Offenburg: Education of the will. 

Lecture at the 10th International Professional Development Week at the Teacher Training Seminar for Waldorf Education in Kassel on 24.03.2018: Forms of Judgment Formation and Education as Personal Transformation. 

Munich 16.-18.03.2018: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education II. 

University of Warsaw 02.–04.03.2018: Five lectures on youth pedagogy. 

Invited lecture on 12.02.2018 at Augsburg University for the KGD working group World and Global History Perspectives in History Teaching: Nationalist or ideological self-concepts in the field of tension between democratic and autocratic-totalitarian concepts of the state. A global history view of the interwar period 1919-1939 using examples. 

Munich 26.-28.01.2018: Southern Bavarian Seminar for Waldorf Education in Munich: Foundations of Waldorf Education I. 

Invited lecture at the University of Stuttgart on 16.01.2018: The Nibelungenlied – on the significance of medieval literature in the curriculum and teaching practice of Waldorf schools. 

2017 

1st Upper School Academy of the Kassel Youth Symposium from 18.-22.12.2017: On the Current Urgency of Historical Narration 

Public lecture at the Freie Waldorfschule Kassel at the invitation of the Kassel Patients’ Initiative on 21.11.2017: Pre-puberty. Developmental processes between the 9th and 12th year of life. 

20.11.2017 in Dornach: Coordination circle for the revision of the Waldorf curriculum. 

Two invited lectures and one colloquium contribution on upper school pedagogy at the International Conference for Steiner/Waldorf Education in Conegliano (Italy) from 17.-20.11.2017: Straightening Oneself Up in Relation to the World; and: The Transition from Childhood to Adolescence and Its Consequences for Methodology and Lesson Design. 

International Conference for Steiner/Waldorf Education in Dornach (Switzerland) from 16.-19.11.2017: Assessment of the work on upper school pedagogy 2014-2017 

University of Warsaw 06.–08.10.2017: 3 lectures introducing Waldorf education 

Teacher training of Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau on 02.10.2017: Upper school pedagogy at Waldorf schools in the tension between teaching autonomy and curriculum; and: Individuation as an educational goal and the shaping of the self-world relationship from a subject perspective. 

Public lecture at the Anthroposophical Center in Kassel on 26.09.2017: The Hybrid Relationship to Eastern Europe in the Tension Between Distance and Proximity. 

Professional development event on upper school teaching for Swiss and Italian upper school teachers from 01.-03.09.2017 in Zurich: 3 lectures and three seminar events on literature and history teaching. 

Professional development event at the Freie Waldorfschule Kassel for educators and teachers on 10.08.2017: The Modern Understanding of Gender as a Challenge for a Pedagogy of Individuation 

Tbilisi (Georgia) 25.-29.06.2017: Armenian-Georgian-Ukrainian-Russian professional development event on upper school pedagogy. 5 lectures on Goethe’s “Faust” and five seminars on contemporary history 

University of Warsaw 09.–11.06.2017: Lecture Challenge of Puberty and five lectures on teachers’ self-education or self-reflection 

Fourth colloquium Image and Pedagogy of Alanus University at the Freie Akademie Mannheim on 27.04.2017: The Significance of Imagination, Image, Myth, and Symptom for Historical Narration. 

Public lecture at the Freie Waldorfschule Kassel at the invitation of the Kassel Patients’ Initiative on 14.04.2017: Challenge of Puberty. Upheavals Toward Independence. 

2016 

University of Warsaw: Judgment Formation in School Teaching 

History teachers’ conference of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen at the Freie Akademie in Mannheim: lecture 

International scholarly-empirical conference of the education administration in the Dnipro department: “Waldorf Education – a Path to an Independent Personality”, lectures 

National Mining Academy in Dnipro: lecture with discussion “Higher Education and Individuation – Straightening Oneself Up in Relation to the World” 

Invited lecture at the 2nd working meeting of social studies teachers at Waldorf schools on 4/5.11.2016 in Göttingen: Nationalism and Totalitarianism. 

At the delegates’ conference in Augsburg: Upper school pedagogy: challenge and future of Waldorf schools 

Invited lecture at the National Mining Academy in Dnipro on 27.10.2016: “Higher Education and Individuation – Straightening Oneself Up in Relation to the World” 

Two invited lectures at the International scholarly-empirical conference of the education administration in the Dnipro department “Waldorf Education – a Path to an Independent Personality” from 25.-26.10.2016: “The Process of Individualization as a Path to Taking on Social Responsibility and the Social Challenges in Ukraine” 

Invited lecture at the conference of Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Educational Science, and the Pädagogische Forschungsstelle at the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen “Waldorf Education and Educational Science. Current Position and Development Perspectives” from 20.10. -22.10.2016: “The Anthroposophical Understanding of History – A Problematization Against the Background of Waldorf Educational, Educational-Scientific, and History-Didactic Positions” 

Moderation of the discussion of invited young people with keynote speaker Bernhard Schlink on the occasion of the awarding of the Kassel Citizens’ Prize “Glas der Vernunft” to Eduard Snowden on 24.09.2016 

Lecture at Michael Bauer School Stuttgart on 09.09.2016 with seminar deepening on 10.09.2016: “Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition as an Ideal Process of Knowledge and Their Significance for Cultivated Encounters with Self, Students, and the World” 

Five lectures at the Armenian-Georgian-Russian-Ukrainian teachers’ conference in Yerevan (Armenia) from 23.-28.07.2016: “The Challenges of the Times and the Justification of Upper School Teaching at Waldorf Schools. School Education as a Process of Individuation” 

Four lectures at the University of Warsaw 04.-05.06.2016: “Judgment Formation in School Teaching – Educational-Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Aspects” 

Invited panel discussion on the submitted paper for the conference of the “AK Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch der KGD” from 06.-08.04.2016 at FU Berlin: “Norm Formation Instead of Norm Transmission in History Teaching – Judgment Formation as a Process of Individuation” 

Closing lecture at the 13th Kassel Youth Symposium on the topic “Boundary” on 29.05.2016: “The Boundary as Opportunity – Philosophical-Political Reflections on Current Challenges” 

Invited lecture on 17.05.2016 in the lecture series “Children, Children! Educational Questions and Pedagogical Challenges of the Present” at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences: “Nobody Understands Me … The Challenging Developmental Phase of Puberty” 

Invited lecture at the Freie Akademie in Mannheim at the history teachers’ conference of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen on 23.01.2016.2016: “History Teaching in the Puberty Phase – Arriving in and Departing from the Here and Now” 

2015 

Two contributions at the International Conference “Hague Circle” in Orange County (USA) 18.-22.11.2015 on upper school teaching: “What Is the Identity of the Upper School at Waldorf Schools? On the Threefold Differentiation of the Self-World Relationship Around Epoch Teaching”; and: “Waldorf Education in the 21st Century” 

Lecture at Michael Bauer School Stuttgart on 11.09.2015: “Upper School Pedagogy – Challenge and Future of Waldorf Schools.” 

Lecture at the Anthroposophical Center Kassel on 09.09.2015: “Identity Formation in the Tension Between Individuality, Culture, and Humanity – Cultural-Historical and Anthroposophical Aspects of Understanding the Present” 

Yerevan: invited lecture: “The Armenian Genocide as a Teaching Topic in Europe” 

ENASTE: “History Teaching and Identity Formation in the Tension Between Individuality, Culturality, and Globality” 

“Facets of Power” Opening lecture of the 12th Kassel Youth Symposium 

Invited lecture at the training center in Zutphen (NL): “Future and Challenge for Upper School Pedagogy at Waldorf Schools” 

Invited lecture at the University of Warsaw: “Waldorf Education and the Question of Education in the 21st Century” 

Waldorf School Tbilisi (Georgia): “Upper School Pedagogy – a Challenge for Waldorf Education in the 21st Century” 

2014 

National Pedagogical University Dragomanova in Kyiv (invited lecture on 21.10.2014): Individual Identity Formation and Civil Responsibility as an Educational Goal – an Interim Assessment on the Occasion of the Final Evaluation of the “All-Ukrainian Experiment “Development of Waldorf Education in Ukraine” (Decree of the Ministry of Education No. 363 of 06.05.2001) 

University of Bamberg – Chair of German Philology of the Middle Ages (invited lecture on 11.09.2014 at the interdisciplinary conference “Heroes in School” from 10 to 12 October 2014 at Kloster Banz on 11.10.2014): “Heroes in School” – Curriculum and Teaching Practice of Waldorf Schools 

Michael Bauer School Stuttgart (12.09.2014): “The World as Image in the Tension Between Representation and Will – Teaching as a Personal Educational Event” 

Educational conference at the Waldorf school in Yerevan (24.-28.08.2014): Identity in the 21st Century – Individuality, Culturality, Humanity as Educational Categories (5 lectures on history teaching) 

Invited lecture at the history teachers’ conference of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen: “Didactic and Methodological Aspects of a Historical Overview” 

Invited lecture at Freie Waldorfschule Dinslaken: “Puberty”: Pregnant with the Self – Puberty and Adolescence. 

10th Kassel Youth Symposium (19.06.2014): “Empathy – a Paradigm Shift in Scholarly Concepts of Evolution” 

Opening lecture for the International Professional Development Week Easter 2014: “Measuring the World” – a cultural-historical contribution to an interdisciplinary teaching approach 

6th International Professional Development Week at the Teacher Training Seminar for Waldorf Education in Kassel: “Landscape and Culture – the Central European Forest” 

2013 

ENASTE lecture “History as Meaning-Making and the Problem of Reality” 

8th Youth Symposium opening lecture “Humanity – historical, cultural, and philosophical approaches to an incomprehensible concept” 

[Historical Narration] “History is what people tell. From magical consciousness to dialogical history.” 

2012 

Educational chaos = educational diversity. Learning through encounter – on the way to a school for all. Offenburg. 

History against the background of interculturality and globality. Lecture as part of the Forum for Educational Questions. The Concept of the Waldorf School. A Critical Introduction in 8 Evenings. 

The Problem of Reference to Reality and Self-Reference in Youth Pedagogy – a Central Challenge for Waldorf Schools. Invited lecture and colloquium at the Friedrich von Hardenberg Institute in Heidelberg. 

Teacher autonomy and its prerequisites. Invited lecture at a congress at Charles University in Prague in cooperation with the Association of Czech Waldorf Schools and with support from the Czech Ministry of Education, the EU, and the European Social Fund in the Czech Republic. 

The Stages of Judgment Formation – on the formation of forms of thinking in upper school teaching. Invited lecture on the occasion of the congress presenting the state-accredited curricula for grades 10 and 11 at Waldorf schools at Dragomanova University Kyiv in cooperation with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, the Ukrainian Association for Waldorf Initiatives, and the International Association for Waldorf Education in Central and Eastern Europe. 

The Importance of Sleep for Pedagogy. Lecture at a congress of the International Association for Waldorf Education in Central and Eastern Europe in Tallinn (Estonia). 

The Cultural History of the Universals of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good. 5 lectures at a professional development event for Waldorf teachers of the Association for Waldorf Initiatives in Ukraine in cooperation with the (state) Pedagogical Professional Development Institute for Teachers in Odessa (Ukraine). 

Cultures – Reflections on a Contemporary Concept of Culture. Opening lecture of the 6th Kassel Youth Symposium. 

History Teaching Today – but how? A four-part course together with Frans Lutter (NL) at the 9th World Teachers’ Conference of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum (Switzerland) on the topic Education: Future in the Present – the path of the self into life. 

Embodiment and spiritual orientation in the upheaval of puberty – on lesson design in history. Opening lecture at the 4th International Professional Development Week for upper school teachers in Kassel. 

2011 

Developmental Tasks and Their Support. Lecture as part of the Forum for Educational Questions. The Concept of the Waldorf School. A Critical Introduction in 8 Evenings. 

The Founding Idea of the Waldorf School – Relic or Vision? Lecture as part of the Forum for Educational Questions. The Concept of the Waldorf School. A Critical Introduction in 8 Evenings. 

Goethe’s »Faust« – an Anthropology Opening lecture at the 3rd International Professional Development Week for upper school teachers in Kassel. 

2010 

Youth Education Today – Waldorf Education in the Age of Globalization lecture at the cultural center at AZ Kassel. 

Love – Empathy – Aesthetics – Dialectics. Becoming Aware of One’s Own Self in the Context of the World (translated into English) Closing lecture at the 2nd International Professional Development Week for upper school teachers in Kassel. 

2009 

History and Present of Waldorf Schools Congress of the Pedagogical Professional Development Institute for Teachers in Odessa and the Association of Waldorf Schools in Ukraine in Odessa. 

Historical Consciousness and the challenges for Education in the Time of Globalization ECSWE (European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education), in collaboration with the Polish Waldorf Federation will be hosting a conference on “Healing the past: moving into the future through a holistic education” in Warsaw.EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Teachers, will be addressing the conference. 

Didactic and Methodological Requirements for History Teaching in the Age of Globalization history teachers’ conference of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen in Stuttgart. 

Grassroots Curriculum Work at Waldorf Schools in International Cooperation participation in the “Round Table Waldorf Education in Ukraine” – organized by AWIU (Association of Waldorf Schools in Ukraine) with the Academy of Educational Sciences in Kyiv and the Institute for Innovations in Technology and Education at the Ministry of Education of Ukraine in Kyiv. 

2008 

Grassroots Curriculum Work at Waldorf Schools – a Path to Quality Development of Teaching and Civil Society Awareness International conference in Kyiv 

Waldorf Education in Connection with Modern Society as a Summary of the First Stage of the Ukrainian scholarly-methodological experiment “Development of Waldorf Education in Ukraine”. 

Pädagogische Forschungsstelle at the Bund der FWS: “I – an Educational Theory.” Participating researchers: Kaliks, Dr. Constanza; Schieren, Prof Dr. Jost. and 21 contributions from international researchers.

Collaboration in the working group Image and Pedagogy in the Department of Educational Science at Alanus University. 

Together with Jörg van Norden (Bielefeld University): “Learning progression in history teaching among students from WS at four locations in comparison with students from various mainstream schools in NRW.” An empirical study. Completed with publication.  

Coordination of a curriculum group to develop guidance materials and teaching materials for history teaching in grade 8 at Waldorf schools. Subproject completed with publication, volume 2 in progress, planned publication 2023.

Youth pedagogy. Together with Angelika Wiehl: Youth and Waldorf Education. A study book introducing Steiner’s youth pedagogy. Work on an educational theory for adolescence. Work on a mission statement for the upper school at Waldorf schools.(completed) 

Editing a handbook on the subject didactics of upper school subjects at Waldorf schools with contributions on the educational process in the upper school as well as on the subject of history.(to be published in autumn 2018) 

Investigation into the significance of the anthroposophical view of history for Waldorf education (preparation of a contribution “The anthroposophical understanding of history against the background of educational-scientific and subject-didactic positions” for the publication of the research colloquium “Waldorf Education and the Art of Education” (completed). 

Development of the units for history teaching for the pilot project of the European Waldorf Diploma accredited in England in collaboration with Martyn Rawson and Rita Schumacher (completed). 

Dialogical history – history teaching in immigration societies/ Dialogical history/ Cosmopolitan theories and history didactics (presented and discussed, among other contexts, within the KGD working group History Didactics Theoretically; partial results published

Historical Experience: The Atmosphere of Historical Places (partial results published)

The Nibelungenlied in Waldorf school German lessons. Preparation of a book publication. 

History teaching at Waldorf schools in grade 10. Preparation of a book publication.