Several well-established institutions overseas provide models for what is possible in Australia. Potentially they could serve as links and partners for a tertiary institution in this country based on the educational and social principles developed by Rudolf Steiner. These are Alanus University for the Arts and Social Sciences in Germany and Heliopolis University in Egypt.
For a summary of the mission and structure of Alanus University, click here. For a summary of the mission and structure of Heliopolis University click here.
Education for Social Renewal Foundation
"The Waldorf/Steiner school can be successful only if it is completely inspired by the spirit that aspires towards the threefold nature of the social organism".
Rudolf Steiner, The Spirit of the Waldorf School.
Archeus Social Ltd.
ABN: 60 608 686 782
Trustees
Phillippa Cordwell
B.A. (Hons.)
Phillippa is a sociologist, teaching at Western Sydney University. Her qualifications are in Social Inquiry and she is researching a PhD thesis on the topic of the challenge to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. She currently presents a community radio program for RBM 89.1 entitled Talking in Black and White.
Nigel Hoffmann
B.A., M.Sc. (Hons.), Ph.D.
Nigel has been a high school teacher in Rudolf Steiner schools for the last eighteen years, In Australia and Switzerland. He is a tutor at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College and has taught adult education courses in Goethean science. He is the author of Goethe's Science of Living Form: The Artistic Stages, Adonis Press, 2007 and The University at the Threshold: Orientation through Goethean Science, Rudolf Steiner Press, 2020.
Lisa Devine
Master of Arts (Psych.), Diploma of Eurythmy and Curative Eurythmy.
Lisa trained as a youth worker in the early 1980s and worked in a range of youth at risk programs before moving into working in the disability field. She has a Masters in Psychology and has counselled young people and their families over many years. Lisa takes young people to Africa every two years in a leadership development program. She is a priest in the Christian Community, a core tutor at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College and a eurythmist.
" . . . a new art of education will arise, an art that may truly be regarded as a necessity in social life".
Rudolf Steiner, The Social Future
Lynne Collett
B.A./LLB (A.N.U.), Diploma Waldorf Teacher Training, Dip Ed.
After finishing her law degree Lynne practised law in the Federal Public Service. She was admitted to the Bar as a solicitor and was employed in private practice and in a community legal centre in Canberra. When living in the U.S. she completed a Waldorf teacher training diploma at Sunbridge College in New York.
She is currently a class teacher at Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School and a tutor at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College.
Luisa Hoffmann
B.Sc., Dip. Ed., Master of Fine Arts (Research), Diploma of Eurythmy and Curative Eurythmy.
Luisa is a practising eurythmist and social activist. Her research degree was concerned with eurythmy practice.
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