Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia - and the Public: Early Endeavours of Expansion, 1919195

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.

List of contents

Preface
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 Reformpädagogik
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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ann-Kathrin (University of Hagen Hoffmann
• Assisted by: Marc Fabian Buck (Editor), Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032569260
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256926-0
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, EDUCATION / Comparative, EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education, Teaching skills and techniques, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Philosophy and theory of education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / General