UK National Dissemination Seminar held in York on 15th October 2005
The event took place on Saturday, 15th October at the York Steiner School. Representatives from 21 schools and several teacher education programmes were present.
Schools represented at the seminar:
Raheen Wood, County Clare, Ireland
Lancaster
St. Paul's, London
Meadow School, Bruton
Edinburgh, Scotland
Holywood, Northern Ireland
Dartington, Totnes
Bristol
Iona, Nottingham
Elmfield, Stourbridge
Michael House, Ilkeston
Michael Hall, Forest Row
Cambridge
Hereford
Botton, North Yorkshire
Nant y Cwm, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Brighton
South West London
Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
York
Ringwood
Presentations of the work of the project, the pilots undertaken as part of the project and news of the emerging Masters Programme were made by Dr David Parker, John Burnett and Trevor Mepham (University of Plymouth) and Christopher Clouder (Chairman, European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education).
In addition, Trevor Mepham announced a bursary fund, proposed by the Trustees of Cotswold Chine Home School and designed for Waldorf practitioners undertaking study in their classrooms and schools.
Copies of the project-funded student manual were distributed to all participants and to those representatives who had sent their apologies. In addition, copies of the project-funded booklet on Waldorf teacher education were distributed.
Following the presentations, there was a plenum for questions and answers and discussion of the points raised. In the immediate period following the national seminar, approaches have been made by individual teachers, requesting further information and application details. In addition, two Waldorf schools from the UK have approached the European Steiner Programme Consultative Committee with a view to focusing on specific areas of research and practice and enrolling groups of colleagues to the programme.
Trevor Mepham
(20th October 2005)
