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Australian Association for Rudolf Steiner Early Childhood Education

Freeing the Spirit of Childhood

The Australian Association for Rudolf Steiner Early Childhood Education (SECA) is part of an international movement dedicated to the protection, development and strengthening of Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood care and education of the child from the developmental stages of pre birth to the age of seven.

This website is a SECA funded resource. Not only professional educators, but also anyone who lives with, or cares for young children, can be inspired and enriched by an encounter with Steiner/Waldorf early childhood education. We invite you to explore the resources we have gathered on this site to learn more. Our seasonal newsletter 'Star Weavings' is a available to members of SECA as a benefit of membership. Look here to read complimentary past issues.

Join SECA as an individual member or as an organisational member

For detailed information about Waldorf/Steiner education please visit www.steinereducation.edu.au

For information about Anthroposophy please visit www.anthroposophyau.org.au

We wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, whose culture and customs have nurtured and continues to nurture this land since time immemorial. We acknowledge with gratitude that we share this land today and sorrowfully acknowledge the historical as well as the inter-generational costs of that sharing. We would also like to acknowledge our hope and belief that we are moving to a place of equity, justice and partnership together for the future.

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World Teachers' Conference 2023

In April, the 11th meeting of teachers and educators worldwide will take place at the Goetheanum. The theme of the conference is: "Affirming – Nurturing – Trusting, an Education for Today and Tomorrow".

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?

For over a hundred years, educators have been calling for educational practice to be shaped from the recognition of the child.

Intellectual learning and standardised methods continue to unilaterally determine everyday teaching. The physical and emotional development becomes unbalanced, the own body becomes a foreign body. The unreflective use of digital media and the increasing lack of movement and contact reinforce these phenomena.

Thus, the present calls for affirming life, nurturing it and having trust. We want to help children and young people experience: 'We want you to be. We have not yet planned the future. We want to help make the future possible by seeing and nurturing the never-before in you'.

For more detailed information, read about the Conference here

Covid-19 Resources

Information that helps us to understand this new human and global situation that affects us all

Dr Michaela Glockler speaking about the virus and our human, health giving forces

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