TOWARD THE DEEPENING OF PUBLIC WALDORF EDUCATION:
The Social Mission of Public Waldorf Schools
and Communities
and Communities
Alliance Annual Conference 2014
January 17-19 at Rudolf Steiner College
January 17-19 at Rudolf Steiner College
Pre-conference on Friday afternoon from 1:00- 5:30 PM
With esteemed keynoters:
Martyn Rawson and Stephen Sagarin, PhD
Post-conference on Sunday from 2:30-8:00 PM
with Eugene Schwartz
Teachers, hear our call for presenters!
You are the leaders in this pioneering movement. Step forward and lead a workshop, facilitate a breakout session, or present a Rudi Talk
Keynote Presentations:
Stephen Sagarin, Ph.D.Stephen Sagarin, Ph.D., is Faculty Chair, cofounder, and teacher at the Great Barrington Waldorf High School, MA. He is also a former teacher and administrator at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. Dr. Sagarin writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration. Dr. Sagarin is also Associate Professor and former Director of the M.S.Ed. Program in Waldorf Teacher Education at Sunbridge Institute, NY. He is the former Editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education. He has taught history of education at Teachers College, NY; human development at the City University of New York; and U.S. and world history at Berkshire Community College. Dr. Sagarin has a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and a B.A. in art history and fine art from Princeton University. He is the author of The Story of Waldorf Education in the United States: Past, Present, and Future (SteinerBooks, 2011). His blog, “What is Education?” may be found at ssagarin.blogspot.com. Dr. Sagarin has been a Waldorf teacher for most of his career, including eleven years at the Waldorf School of Garden City, NY, the high school from which he graduated.
Martyn RawsonMartyn Rawson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1954. After university and some years as a craftsman, he started the York Steiner School in England with some friends. Over the past 33 years or so he has been a class teacher, foreign language teachers and high school history, history of art and literature teacher. He has taught in the Uk in York and at Michael Hall School, in Germany at the Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart and Elmshorn near Hamburg, where he currently teaches. He has also worked for many years as a Waldorf teacher educator in Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a tutor on the University of Plymouth’s International Masters Programme. He has published over a dozen books, including the English language Version of the Waldorf Curriculum- a book that has been translated into 18 languages, the most recent being Mandarin. For 17 years Martyn was a member of College of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum. His main fields of interest in research include human evolution, quality development in education, curriculum research and school based practitioner research.
Following the Conference:
Eugene SchwartzEugene Schwartz has been a Waldorf educator and consultant for almost 40 years. He taught as a class teacher and high school teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School (New York) and Shining Mountain Waldorf School (Colorado) and has been a visiting faculty member and consultant at over 150 Waldorf schools in the US and around the world. Eugene is the only private school educator who has been the recipient of prestigious Teaching Fellowship of the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching. He has pioneered online international teacher conferences and has worked with public school teachers in Ecuador and Waldorf educators in China. He is the author of 10 books on Waldorf education and has given over 2000 lectures on the subject. More information on his work may be found at www.millennialchild.com.