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Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Early Endeavours of Expansion, 1919–1955 book cover

1st Edition

Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Early Endeavours of Expansion, 1919–1955

Edited By Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann, Marc Fabian Buck Copyright 2024
222 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. The book thereby challenges the historical concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing “progressive education.” Spanning the period 1919–1955,... Read more

Preface by Peter Staudenmaier

 

1. Introduction: Waldorf Education as an (Inter)National Phenomenon and Subject of Discourse - Marc Fabian Buck & Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann

2. The Educational Discourse on Waldorf Education in Germany - Heiner Ullrich

3. Waldorf Schools in German Society – Three Debates from 2007: Dogmatism, Racism and “the Empirical Turn” - Ansgar Martins

4. Mind the Gap – New Players Are Taking the Stage: Waldorf Education in the German Academic and Public Discourse - Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann

5. Waldorf Education in The Netherlands - Anna van der Want, Sita de Kam, Kirsten Koppel, Wouter Modderkolk & Saskia Snikkers

6. Three Discourses of Waldorf Education in Norway - Anne-Mette Stabel & Frode Barkved

7. The Steiner Schools in Switzerland with Regard to Reformpädagogik - Jürgen Oelkers

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

9. Waldorf Education in Finland: Soft Alternative, Adaptation, and a Life in Suspicion - Jan-Erik Mansikka

Biography

Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann is Research Assistant at the Department of Educational Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.

Marc Fabian Buck is Lecturer at the Department of Educational Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.

"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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