Steiner Voices XYZ

Marcus Pater is a Steiner X, Y and Z: he is a graduate of Lorien Novalis School for Rudolf Steiner Education, Dural, Sydney, and is now both a teacher in the high school there and also a parent. In between he trained at Queensland University of Technology in Acting and worked for over 12 years in professional theatre, before returning to his former school as a parent and then teacher. He looks bac...

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 w...

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 t...

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 acti...

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 highli...

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 th...

Meet Emily Watts, a young teacher who has recently completed her first year in a Steiner Class Teacher cycle. In this episode she takes us inside her classroom and shares the rhythm of her day with the children. A highlight for her is telling a story every day, a unique feature of a Steiner classroom, one that transforms the role of teacher from being just a deliverer of the formal curriculum to c...

In this episode of Steiner Y, you are going to meet parent Mary Heard and hear of her journey as a parent in Steiner schools, started by a comment from a dentist, a fascinating story of both education and self healing. Mary not only found an education that nurtured her two children throughout their schooling, but she also found a community and an approach to life that nurtured her personally as we...

Subscribe now on all podcast apps! Welcome to Steiner Voices, 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, te...