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New Readers for English-language teaching
Diversity-conscious. Critical of racism. Grounded in Waldorf education.
Language shapes our world. Narratives shape ways of thinking, values and identities - especially in a school context. With this in mind, a commission of experts from the Pädagogische Forschungsstelle took a close look at the range of texts currently available in English. The aim was to re-evaluate texts in terms of their diversity of representation, their potential to criticize discrimination and their pedagogical suitability. This work became the starting point for the development of a new reading offer for grades 4 to 9.
In summer 2025, the first two titles of a new range of readings for English lessons will be published:
Modjadji - The Rain Queen by Pankaj Sulodia and Miracle on the Mountain by Kavita Desai.
A total of ten new readers and four accompanying workbooks are planned for the 2025/26 school year. All titles follow a clear educational mission statement:
- Diversity-conscious and critical of racism in the selection and presentation of content
- Waldorf educationally sound in terms of language learning methodology and developmental orientation
- Practical for teachers to implement in the classroom
In addition, a digital recommendation platform for the upper school is being created, which offers a broad selection of international literature and provides specific impulses for anti-discriminatory lesson planning.
Our aim
English lessons in which all students can find themselves - with stories that make different perspectives visible and open up new spaces for encounters, empathy and reflection.
