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Hardenberg Institute establishes education academy
HEIDELBERG (NNA) – The Hardenberg Institute for Cultural Studies in Heidelberg, Germany, has established a new Education Academy. The work of the academy will focus on central issues of Waldorf education and self-management. It will also tackle problems of adolescence and adolescent education, a subject which the institute has been studying for some time. The institute said the academy was the culmination of the work of a group of people who had been meeting since 2002 following an event at the institute on the “Culture of Dialogue” and who had since then focused their work on the self-management of Waldorf schools. The collegiate self-management of Waldorf schools was one of the “major achievements of the twentieth century”. The realisation of such a system demanded abilities which were increasingly required of people in our time. The issue was how it could be put into practice in concrete terms. Members of academy include Viviana Alvarez, Thomas Diener, Karl-Martin Dietz and Jürgen Paul from Heidelberg, with external members Mona Doosry, Gundel Fuchs, Heinrich Kruckelmann and Martin Wienert. There will be a presentation of the concept underlying the academy in Heidelberg on 4 March. Founded by Karl-Martin Dietz in 1978, the institute undertakes research in the field of history of consciousness and the works of Rudolf Steiner, focusing on the “Philosophy of Freedom”. In addition, management consultancy has taken an increasingly important role in recent years. End/NNA/ung/cva Links and contact: www.hardenberginsitut.de alvarez@hardenberginstitut .de Item: 060127-01EN 27 January 2006 Copyright 2006 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See http://www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: http://www.nna-news.org/ German Demeter farm wins ecological farming prize
BERLIN (NNA) – German Demeter farms have been winning a series of prizes for their ecological agriculture. The latest example is the Brunnenhof farm in Künzelsau-Mäusdorf in the southern region of Baden-Württemberg, which came third in the awards for the support prize for ecological agriculture presented by the German agriculture minister Horst Seehofer at the “Green Week” in Berlin. The farm managers Caroline von Wistinghausen-Noz and Maik Noz were presented with their award by the minister, who particularly praised their husbandry of free-range turkeys. The Brunnenhof is the sixth Demeter farm to have been honoured in this way with a major prize for ecological agriculture. Previously the Piluweri Demeter market garden in Müllheim-Hügelheim was awarded the first prize for its biodynamic vegetable cultivation. End/nna/ung/cva Photos of award ceremony either from www.demeter-bw.de. website or irismuehlberger@aol.com Links: www.foerderpreisoekologischerlandbau.de www.gefluegelvombrunnenhof.de Item: 060127-02EN 27 January 2006 Copyright 2006 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See http://www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: http://www.nna-news.org/ |
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