ABSTRACT
An essential cornerstone of Waldorf education is the continuous orientation toward the development of the growing human being from birth to maturity. This chapter deals with the aspect of potential interfaces of Rudolf Steiner's developmental psychology with newer research. Waldorf schoolteachers base their daily practice not only on current scientific findings, but first of all on their own understanding of the child's development, which is shaped by their personal life experience. Korczak was not familiar with the concept of the seven-year cycle, but in his everyday pedagogic practice, he used the noticeable changes, which occur approximately every seven years in a young person's life, to orient himself. Furthermore, Waldorf education recognizes the significance of additional developmental aspects, which, according to Steiner, repeatedly intersect and modify the sequenced phases that each span approximately seven years.
