Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Recent Developments the World Over, 19872004 [Hardcover]

1: Steiner Education in Japan  Its Development and Potential
2: Waldorf Education in Israel: Dazzling Success amidst Resounding Failure
3: The Late Deployment and Consolidation of Waldorf Pedagogy in Spain
4: School of Imagination, School of Threats, Discourses around Waldorf School in Poland
5: Adopting and Adapting Waldorf Education: Returning to the Roots Through Waldorf Education in Kenya
6: Debating a Pedagogy without Talking about Pedagogy: The Controversies around Waldorf in the French General Press
7: Waldorf Education in Slovenia
8: Waldorf Education, a Lighthouse for Forgotten Chinese Pedagogical Wisdom
9: Patterns, Players, Perspectives. Epilogue on the International Reputation and Discussion on Waldorf Education

The second of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic continues to gather 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.

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