Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Early Endeavours of Expansion, 19191955 [Paperback]

Preface

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1. Introduction: Waldorf Education as an (Inter)National Phenomenon and Subject of Discourse

2. The Educational Discourse on Waldorf Education in Germany

3. Waldorf Schools in German Society  Three Debates from 2007: Dogmatism, Racism and the Empirical Turn

4. Mind the Gap  New Players Are Taking the Stage: Waldorf Education in the German Academic and Public Discourse

5. Waldorf Education in The Netherlands

6. Three Discourses of Waldorf Education in Norway

7. The Steiner Schools in Switzerland with Regard to Reformp?dagogik

8. The School, Where You Learn How to Dance Your Name. An Analysis of the Public and Academic Debate about Waldorf Schools in Austria

9. Waldorf Education in Finland: Soft Alternative, Adaptation, and a Life in Suspicion

The first of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic, this volume gathers international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas.?

This project represents a new step in international research on Waldorf education, bringing together scholars from different parts of the globe to examine Waldorf schooling through a variety of perspectives while engaging in transnational and cross-disciplinary dialogue. It offers an opportunity for comparative study of a contested form of alternative pedagogy in a range of societal contexts.

-?Peter Staudenmaier is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University, USA.

This project represents a new step in international research on Waldorf education, bringing together scholars from different parts of the globe to examine Waldorf schooling through a variety of perspectivló4