Ak Lu’um Waldorf Community

Somos una escuela Waldorf, con un currículo innovador y una forma de trabajar arraigada en un profundo entendimiento del ser humano.

Fortaleciendo la conexión entre los ritmos de la naturaleza y las facultades que nos distinguen como seres humanos.

Ak Lu’um  Waldorf Community se localiza a 8 km. del centro de Playa del Carmen hacia el norte, al lado de la comunidad Sac Be. La escuela se construyó con conciencia ecológica, en medio de la selva, utilizando materiales, técnicas y diseños de construcción tradicionales de la región. En armonía con nuestro medio ambiente, los desechos se separan, se reciclan y hacemos compostaje orgánico de forma continua. Utilizamos únicamente energía solar. Orgullosamente, hoy generamos nuestros propios recursos de energía y agua. 

Ak Lu'um Community is a Waldorf initiative based on the anthroposophical teachings of the humanist philosopher Rudolf Steiner. In order to educate free human beings, we believe in supporting the child's natural developmental stages. We use the truth and beauty of the natural world to form the child, encouraging him to develop observation and reverence for life. Teachers provoke the enthusiasm for learning that lives in every child. The subjects are worked on in an imaginative and dynamic way which makes motivation for prizes or competitive exams unnecessary. Children's motivation is born from themselves (as they will have to as adults) and they can gain the ability to enjoy learning throughout their lives.

With more than 900 Waldorf schools and 1,600 Waldorf early childhood programs on five continents, Waldorf education is truly global, not only in scope, but also in approach. Wherever it is found, the Waldorf curriculum cultivates among its students a deep appreciation for cultural traditions from around the world while at the same time being deeply rooted in its local culture and context.

Waldorf schools offer a balanced, developmentally appropriate approach to education that integrates arts and academics for children from preschool through twelfth grade. It fosters the development of each child's sense of truth, beauty, and goodness and provides an antidote to violence, alienation, and cynicism. The goal of education is to instill in each student a lifelong love of learning and enable them to fully develop their unique abilities.

For the Waldorf student, music, dance and drama, writing, literature, legends and myths are not just subjects to be ingested and tasted. They have experience. Through these experiences, Waldorf students cultivate a lifelong love of learning, as well as the intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual capacities to be confident individuals and serve the world.

Waldorf schools are part of an international movement, although they are not part of a regulated organization. The schools are united by a shared dedication to the Waldorf curriculum and pedagogy and by the belief that this schooling can help children become free-thinking, socially responsible and willing adults. In this way, families have found Waldorf education to be a truly global curriculum united around the world in its unique vision of child development. Each school, however, is independent and autonomous, and has its own distinctive characteristics.

Beyond a day of school, we are an educational community. Our students' families are involved in the development and growth of Ak Lu'um. Teamwork is vital. The home-school bond needs to be very strong and revitalized on an ongoing basis. Reaching consensual decisions is our intention.