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.

• Preface1. Introduction: Waldorf Education as an (Inter)National Phenomenon and Subject of Discourse2. The Educational Discourse on Waldorf Education in Germany3. 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 Discourse5. Waldorf Education in The Netherlands6. Three Discourses of Waldorf Education in Norway7. The Steiner Schools in Switzerland with Regard to Reformpädagogik8. “The School, Where You Learn How to Dance Your Name”. An Analysis of the Public and Academic Debate about Waldorf Schools in Austria9. Waldorf Education in Finland: Soft Alternative, Adaptation, and a Life in Suspicion

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.

• Preface1. Introduction: Waldorf Education as an (Inter)National Phenomenon and Subject of Discourse2. The Educational Discourse on Waldorf Education in Germany3. 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 Discourse5. Waldorf Education in The Netherlands6. Three Discourses of Waldorf Education in Norway7. The Steiner Schools in Switzerland with Regard to Reformpädagogik8. “The School, Where You Learn How to Dance Your Name”. An Analysis of the Public and Academic Debate about Waldorf Schools in Austria9. Waldorf Education in Finland: Soft Alternative, Adaptation, and a Life in Suspicion

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.

• Preface1. Introduction: Waldorf Education as an (Inter)National Phenomenon and Subject of Discourse2. The Educational Discourse on Waldorf Education in Germany3. 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 Discourse5. Waldorf Education in The Netherlands6. Three Discourses of Waldorf Education in Norway7. The Steiner Schools in Switzerland with Regard to Reformpädagogik8. “The School, Where You Learn How to Dance Your Name”. An Analysis of the Public and Academic Debate about Waldorf Schools in Austria9. Waldorf Education in Finland: Soft Alternative, Adaptation, and a Life in Suspicion