PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

The highly controversial Waldorf pedagogy has changed its relationships to educational sciences in the last decades, especially through their own teacher training institutions that became academic under the necessary Bologna process. Also, the growing number of Waldorf schools worldwide draws more attention because of pedagogical competition and some practices which are interesting for the mainstream schools. I will try to present this new attention and the following encounter between two quite different knowledge domains by concentrating on the most interesting developments and an understanding from the perspective of educational science. This requires certain paradigmatic examples to cause even more interest. Some of my paradigmatic examples have been confirmed in academic seminars at a German university and in some international places.