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Waldorf education is in a unique position to instill a conscious approach to economic life by fostering social enterprise and making visible its financial side as preparation for contemporary life. If spiritual values are at the heart of Waldorf education, then demystifying money is essential to supporting students’ developing understanding of themselves and the world. In this way, they can learn to manage their own economic endeavors as they form their identities, and thus create an antidote to the pervasive and invasive consumerism of the culture in which they live. 

The Economic Literacy Initiative Group

John Bloom, RSF Social Finance

Arthur Edwards, Centre for Associative Economics

Gary Lamb, Hawthorne Valley Association

ECONOMIC LITERACY PROJECT OUTLINE

Project Aims 

Convening an ongoing circle of individuals actively concerned with the teaching of economics in Waldorf schools in order to:

• Broaden the view of how economics is taught at the high school level in Waldorf Schools
• Develop a strategy for cultivating economic literacy in high schools
• Establish a teaching framework that includes innovative practices based on Rudolf Steiner’s economic and social insights and questions conventional economic thinking.
• Engage teachers and students in a collaborative learning process
• Support those responsible for teaching economics in Waldorf high schools
• Create a model approach that can influence more widely how economic literacy is taught at the high school or secondary level