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Instructions for participating in a course are on the welcome page of a course and general instructions can be found here.
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Answers
We often seek answers to our questions, but one has to be very careful with answers, because they relate to the past. ‘Now I have the final answer, so I can store it in a box as ‘knowledge’ but this knowledge could be dead. We have to look for answers with life in them, answers that allow new questions to emerge, because to ask questions is a process that is creative and leads to the future.
Judgments
Some judgments have the danger of fixing us on our path towards freedom. Judgments that something is either good or bad, right or wrong, useful or useless, moral or immoral are polarities. Instead of becoming unfree by tying ourselves to one of these polarities, we can honestly question ourselves where are we between these polarities. This questioning is not only an important step on the path of self-knowledge but also leads gradually to higher levels of consciousness. Consciousness arises between polarities. ‘Knowledge of the opposites is the same’ Aristotle
Polarities
Working with polarities becomes an important support for our self-awakening studies. When we face a problem we could ask, ‘what would be the polar opposite of our dilemma?’. Rather than judging it as moral or immoral, we try honestly to find where are standing in our thoughts, feelings and deeds between this virtue and its corresponding vice. Through this process, we get closer to a more conscious understanding and evaluation of our problem and its possible solution. Through these steps, we often free ourselves from preconceived ideas.
Study Groups
We encourage course participants to engage with study groups, however it remains the student’s individual responsibility to complete and submit work within their own time frame. EduCareDo does not manage study groups. We try to keep a list of current groups and will happily put students in contact with one another. We find each group has its own rhythm and duration but tend to do such things together as the artistic activities, exercises and then discuss their own findings.
Uploading Diary Sheets
Five individual files can be uploaded for each lesson. It’s easy and practical to combine a number of files into a single file by following the instructions in the video. The total maximum upload for each lesson is 128M
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Course content continue to be available on your account unless your account becomes inactive for five years. As long as you are active you are welcome to partake in study groups and practice sessions at any time into the future.
Study groups or practice sessions that run alongside some courses are another way to engage with the course contributors. They are available to course participants without a fee at any time that they may be offered. Please note that not all courses offer study groups and practice sessions. These free opportunities to gather are offered voluntarily by EduCareDo contributors and are subject to change.
When workshops are offered to extend a lesson from the course that you are enrolled in, a credit will automatically be applied to your enrolment to the value of the fee that is included in the workshop fee for the lesson.
Tutoring, Study & Practice Groups
Tutoring via diary sheets
Tutoring is provided by the course authors or tutors and is available for two years from enrolment. The mode of communication is via a diary sheet that complements each lesson. The questions in the diary sheet prompt questions to help engage more deeply with the lesson content and the tutor responds to your individual submissions. At the beginning of each course, the author(s) describe how to use and submit the diary sheet if you choose; diary sheets are optional.
If two years since enrolment is approaching and you are actively in the course and reach out to us for an tuition extension then it is very likely to be granted. If however you have not been active with the course through EduCareDo and wish to submit diary sheets once the two years has passed, tuition can be extended for another 2 years for $250 AUD. Some participants choose to submit all diary sheets within 2 years and then re-engage with the author/tutor for another round, and this too is available for another 2 years for $250 AUD.
EduCareDo does not keep your diary sheets once the feedback has been provided to you.
Certificates
A Certificate of Completion shall be provided for anyone who requests it once they have received responses from the tutor for each of the diary sheets in the course. Read more here →
A certificate of completion for Teachers participating in the Foundations in Anthroposophy Course.
This certificate came about at the request of Sheoak College who held a study group for the Foundations in Anthroposophy Course for educators wishing to be employed in Steiner / Waldorf Schools in South Australia. Although EduCareDo is not a Registered Training Organisation, the certificate is evidence of actively engaging with Anthroposophy and being mentored in Waldorf Education. It has been beneficial for participants in many and various ways. To receive the Foundation Year Certificate for Teachers, participants complete the Foundations in Anthroposophy Course and general requirements for a Certificate of Completion along with the additional requirements listed below.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Review after each lesson with the following questions:
1. What was new to me in this lesson?
2. What was most important and/or inspiring to me in this lesson?
3. What can I do with these discoveries?
Present two artistic expressions. One from the first half of the year (Lessons 1 – 14), and one from the second (Lessons 15 – 26). Artistic expressions can include creative writing, poetry, photographs of painting or sculpture, musical pieces, or video recordings of music or drama performances.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR A TEACHER’S CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Choose a topic from the following sets of lessons and submit a 750 – 1000 word essay for each set of lessons. That is four essays.
Lesson 1 – 7 | Lesson 8 – 14 | Lesson 15 – 20 | Lesson 21 – 26
MENTORING ON
Choose a subject from each set of lessons and explore it further in discussion and activity with a mentor. A mentor is one or more persons sourced and chosen by you from within the Waldorf teaching community, or someone who you know to be actively working from the impulse of anthroposophy and who is willing to support your exploration for deeper enquiry into a subject. You may find a mentor in a study group or school College of Teachers. You may source someone who has the most experience and is most helpful in your chosen subject; the same person need not be your mentor in each subject.
Fulfil four mentor diary sheets, one for each for each set of lessons that summarise what has been explored and developed. Please ask your mentor to sign your mentor diary sheet before you submit it to EduCareDo.
PARTICIPATION IN ANTHROPOSOPHICAL TRAININGS AND GROUP STUDY
A total of 25 hours of engagement in professional development such as anthroposophical trainings, study groups or conferences are required over the length of the course. Participating in an EduCareDo study group or gathering can fulfil this requirement. Please submit a summary of this professional development to complete your course requirements.
Please submit your work in the following order:
1. Lessons 1 – 7 (Assignment 1, Mentor Diary sheet 1)
2. Lessons 8 – 14 (Assignment 2, Mentor Diary sheet 2)
3. Lesson 15 – 20 (Assignment 3, Mentor Diary sheet 3)
4. Lesson 21 – 26 (Assignment 4, Mentor Diary sheet 4, Professional summary))
Materials
Books
The basic books of Rudolf Steiner appear to be aimed in a broad way at 3 different esoteric demographics that he dealt with at different stages of his biography. Theosophy and Knowledge of Higher Worlds at theosophists, who had experience with occult and spiritual writing, usually of an eastern sort. Occult Science to seekers of a more scientific kind, who at the turn of the 18th century were flooded with evolutionism. The Philosophy of Freedom, which took philosophy right up to the edge of the spiritual world and then into it, for the more academic minded.
Rudolf Steiner has characterized reading anthroposophy as spiritual practice and recommended meditation on the great thoughts of religious and spiritual adepts across history. He knew that the spiritual world spoke to him and others through our own concentrated and tranquil thinking. If we follow along and think the thoughts he was thinking as he lectured and wrote then we too would be inspired by the same higher beings.
This agreement applies to all courses and information provided by EduCareDo to an enrolee
Services. EduCareDo offers self-directed courses in anthroposophy and its related fields of application. EduCareDo also hosts events and gatherings by our sibling organisations Inner Work Path and Developing the Self Developing the World.
Terms & Conditions
Agreement
Enrolment. Enrolment into a course, event or gathering is on a per person basis. One enrolment provides one person access to the course materials and tutor where applicable.
Enrolment fees. The advertised fee is paid upon enrolment. The fees quoted on https://www.educaredo.org/ are in Australian dollars ($AUD) and out of courtesy an estimate in US dollars ($USD) may also be listed. The enrolment is processed in Australian dollars and when the enrolees currency is not in Australian dollars the fee will be converted by the enrolees financial institution rate of the day. EduCareDo is not responsible for the conversation rate.
Availability. Access to an EduCareDo self-directed course content is granted with the purchase of the course and is subject to EduCareDo’s Terms & Conditions. EduCareDo will use its best efforts to have the content available at all times but makes no guarantees in this regard when for example technical issues cause the site to be unavailable.
Term. An EduCareDo self-directed course and its materials are made available to enrolees in a unique online account for a period of 5 years. Extensions to this duration are considered upon application. Updates and additions to the content may be made from time to time and will be available in the enrolees account as it becomes available. Access to recordings of live gatherings are available in the online account for a period of 3 months unless stated otherwise on particular courses.
Refunds. Since EduCareDo self-directed course material is fully available upon enrolment, a refund is not provided should you change your mind. For gatherings and events in which the course material is to yet to be delivered, cancellation will incur a $10 administration charge. Anything that lies outside of these conditions will be assessed case by case.
Copyright. All courses and gatherings are copyrighted by EduCareDo and may only be used by the one enrolee. Further use, copying or distribution is strictly prohibited.
Limitation of liability. EduCareDo accepts no liability for any damages caused in connection with the services under this agreement.
Law and venue. Any disputes in connection with this agreement are governed by Australian law and must be brought before the courts of the Australian Government.