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Advocates of public Waldorf education claim that Waldorf methods (charter) schools should be able to receive public funding. PLANS claims that although Waldorf representatives often state that a public "Waldorf methods" program has been structured so as not to violate the U.S. Constitution, these schools nevertheless have religious underpinnings.
One of Waldorf education's central premises is that all educational and cultural institutions should be self-governing and should grant teachers a high degree of creative autonomy within the school; [135]: 143 [79] this is based upon the conviction that a holistic approach to education aiming at the development of free individuals can only be ...
A UK Department for Education and Skills report noted significant differences in curriculum and pedagogical approach between Waldorf/Steiner and mainstream schools and suggested that each type of school could learn from the other type's strengths: in particular, that state schools could benefit from Waldorf education's early introduction and ...
Plus, how this type of education differs from regular and Montessori schools.
In Waldorf education writing and reading are introduced at age six or seven; Beginning with oral storytelling, a Waldorf child listens to and summarizes oral language. Then, using imaginative pictures of sounds (e.g. a snake shape for the letter "s"), the children gradually learn the abstract letter forms and move on to phonetics, spelling ...
1 Criticism. 2 recent additions:North American Waldorf Schools Connection to Christianity. 3 Waldorf Project. 13 comments. 4 Merging Articles. 5 comments ...
2.1 The WC - an extremist, repeatedly untruthful, and unreliable site, not qualified to link to as external resource on Waldorf education 2.2 On the site 2.3 If not PLANS, which link to criticism of Waldorf education will we include in the article?
The name Waldorf thus comes from the factory which hosted the first school. [1] The original Waldorf school was formed as an independent institution licensed by the local government as an exploratory model school with special freedoms. Steiner specified four conditions: [2] that the school be open to all children; that it be coeducational;