Akomanga Tekau ma Rua - Class Twelve

‘Synthesis’

The Waldorf student’s final year brings many inspiring, yet difficult questions to the surface. Many of these questions come at the level of the individual: what are my strengths and weaknesses and how do I work with them? Where do I go from here? Why might I choose a particular path or direction in the world, and how do I approach the many opportunities and challenges before me? The Waldorf Class 12 student feels at last their part as a citizen of the universe, eager to step into the world and to leave school behind.

The lessons in this year form the grand synthesis of the whole education, with material which gives a broad overview and understanding of the whole curriculum in such things as “Issues of our Time” and “The History of Philosophy”. The content of the subjects directs itself to the current worldview in relation to that field of endeavour.  The students stand firmly in the contemporary age, taking the best of the past into a future which is yet to unfold.  It is here that one sees the fruits of a Waldorf education in young adults who stand courageously and with integrity as free individuals, secure within values which give meaning to life.

Our Pedagogical Aims for Class 12 Are:

• To perceive the inter-dependence of phenomena, processes and human endeavours.

• To be able to acknowledge one’s own strengths, weaknesses, capacities, learning needs, learning style.

• To be aware of themselves as members of a world community.

• To feel in command of their future direction/destiny.

• To have well-developed moral, ethical and personal standards.

• To make visible and refine their areas of strengths.

• To find appropriate ways of dealing with their areas of weaknesses.

• To be able to stand by the fruits of their creation/productivity.

• To foster a sense of one’s potential to make a difference.