CONTEMPORARY FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF THE FUNCTIONING OF WALDORF SCHOOLS
The article gives an idea of the current activities of foreign Waldorf schools. The author presents a historical review of the first Waldorf schools, pioneered by Rudolf Steiner, a well-known teacher, philosopher, founder of Waldorf pedagogy. The article describes the organization of the educational process, taking into consideration the individual peculiarities of students in a primary and secondary school, based on the principles of Waldorf pedagogy at the present time. Individual characteristics are understood as the types of students' temperament. The author gives examples of the possible application of the proposed educational approach in the conditions of the national pedagogical paradigm, in order to provide a learner-centered approach to teaching, the diversity of the educational process, the adaptation of students to modern educational conditions.