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This book marks the centenary of the first Waldorf School, established by Rudolf Steiner in Stuttgart in 1919. With around 1,150 Waldorf Schools and over 1,800 Waldorf Kindergartens established in over 60 countries, this book examines and analyses how the initial impulse of Steiner education has grown over the last century to become a worldwide alternative movement in education. The author documents and compares the growth and development of Waldorf schools and Steiner-inspired educational institutions around the world, and determines the extent to which the original underpinning philosophy has been maintained against the contexts and challenges of contemporary global trends in education. Within such diverse international contexts, it is significant that the schools retain such a distinctive identity, and clearly redefine how ‘alternative education’ can be viewed. This comprehensive volume will be of interest and value to scholars of Steiner education and Waldorf schools as well as alternative education more widely. .

Waldorf method of education. --- Steiner education --- Steiner-Waldorf education --- Waldorf education --- Education --- Anthroposophy --- Experimental methods --- Alternative Education. --- Art education. --- Education—History. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Schools. --- Creativity and Arts Education. --- History of Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Schools and Schooling. --- Public institutions --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Art --- Art education --- Education, Art --- Art schools --- Nontraditional education --- Educational innovations --- Alternative schools --- History --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- International education. --- School and Schooling. --- Teaching --- Study and teaching. --- History.