Sophia Montefiore is Senior High School Coordinator at the Newcastle Waldorf School. As well as teaching across numbers of subjects, Sophia is an artist, published illustrator and more recently a teacher of Projective Geometry, a discipline that blends the rigour of Mathematics with the beauty of Art. In this episode she discusses her work and speaks about the power of this subject to change how we see the world: by expanding our awareness out to Infinity and back, we learn to see the profound connections that underlie our existence. As a Main Lesson in Year 11, Projective Geometry opens the doors of perception for students to see the interconnectedness and beauty of our material, and non-material worlds.
You can explore Sophia’s work here: .
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The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
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“What’s in it for dads? The journey of a Steiner parent”
Malcolm Day is an architect and builder (and happy labourer!) and a long term Steiner dad. He and his wife between them have put five children through two Steiner schools in Sydney. Malcolm has thought deeply about his family’s journey in Steiner education, and here he tells his children’s very diverse stories, their individual learning and later careers, and his learning as a parent. What might they have in common that was shaped by their school experiences? And he addresses the question, “What’s in it for Dads?” His advice is simple: get involved and your personal rewards will be great!
For more information about Steiner education: https://steinereducation.edu.au/
For more information about locations and contact details of Steiner schools: https://steinereducation.edu.au/schools/
Teacher education and professional learning: https://steinereducation.edu.au/events/
Working in a Steiner school: https://steinereducation.edu.au/jobs/#vacancies
Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/steinereducationaustralia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steinereducationaustralia/
The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
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Lyres and Levers: The Shaping of a Software Engineer
The Steiner X Series featuring former students.
Max Chuquimia is a professional software engineer, working on mobile applications and AI. He credits his Steiner education with many offerings that helped shape his approach to work, and life. He didn’t have access to digital devices as a child, yet when he did in early adolescence, he brought an enquiring and practical attitude that made him an active manager of technology, not just a passive consumer. Geometry gave him an inner visual sense of shape and design, one that informs his daily work in coding and programming. Learning the lyre laid a foundation in music that continued into adult life. Listen to Max’s story and hear how lyres and music, Geometry and levers in mechanics, all contributed to the successful shaping of this Steiner educated software engineer.
For more information about Steiner education: https://steinereducation.edu.au/
For more information about locations and contact details of Steiner schools: https://steinereducation.edu.au/schools/
Teacher education and professional learning: https://steinereducation.edu.au/events/
Working in a Steiner school: https://steinereducation.edu.au/jobs/#vacancies
Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/steinereducationaustralia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steinereducationaustralia/
The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
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A Steiner School and a Soccer Team”: Reflections on a Class Teacher Cycle
To agree to accompany her husband’s job move to a city in Australia, Katherine Arconati needed to find both a Steiner school for her children, and a high enough level soccer team for herself. She found both, and putting her Californian training as a Steiner teacher to good use, she recently completed a cycle of eight years as a primary Class Teacher. In this episode she reflects on what the highlights have been for her in this educational journey that is unique to Steiner schools. She shares her professional joy in accompanying children as they grow through a critical phase in their learning development, her love of Mathematics and Geometry, and a student who could recite Pi to 400 decimal places!
For more information about Steiner education: https://steinereducation.edu.au/
For more information about locations and contact details of Steiner schools: https://steinereducation.edu.au/schools/
Teacher education and professional learning: https://steinereducation.edu.au/events/
Working in a Steiner school: https://steinereducation.edu.au/jobs/#vacancies
Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/steinereducationaustralia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steinereducationaustralia/
The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
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“A Rich Toolbox of Approaches”: Steiner education and the roots of creativity.
Dr Jonathan Spreer is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sydney. He was entirely educated at a Steiner school, the Uhlandshohe Waldorf School in Stuttgart, Germany, which is the very first Steiner school in the world founded by Rudolf Steiner himself and still going strong 100 years later. Jonathan tells his story and reflects on some of the things from his school education that have shaped him as a person and a professional: wood crafts, numbers, music, the arts, all of which gave him “a rich toolbox of approaches” to support his creativity as a mathematician.
For more information about Steiner education: https://steinereducation.edu.au/
For more information about locations and contact details of Steiner schools: https://steinereducation.edu.au/schools/
Teacher education and professional learning: https://steinereducation.edu.au/events/
Working in a Steiner school: https://steinereducation.edu.au/jobs/#vacancies
Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/steinereducationaustralia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steinereducationaustralia/
The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
Welcome to Steiner Voices XYZ, a podcast series hosted by Steiner Education Australia. We’re a forum for some of the varied voices of Steiner school communities and their people around the country, of teachers, parents and students.
Steiner education is a worldwide movement of some 1100 schools across the globe, on all inhabited continents and embraced by parents, teachers and students of all cultural backgrounds. In Australia we have 52 schools who are members of Steiner Education Australia and are all dedicated to delivering the rich and uplifting Australian Steiner Curriculum framework, recognised by the government education regulator ACARA as an approved equivalent to the Australian Curriculum version 9.
Listen to our Steiner Voices podcast series and you’ll meet some of the many people who make our Australian Steiner schools such vibrant learning communities.
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