Integrating South Africa's Waldorf Schools: with a discussion on Cultural Racism and Anthroposophy

By Eric Hurner

This short history of how the South African Waldorf schools gradually developed from multi-cultural, through multi-racial to the present trans-cultural schools they now are, addresses also the theme of present-day cultural racism and whether racism forms a part of the anthroposophical world view.Waldorf schools were started in South Africa during the late 1950s by groups of immigrant parents who were unwilling to entrust their children to the boredom and harsh discipline of public education at the time. While their popularity rose steadily, by the early 1980s there were still only four schools with a single high school. The subsequent wave of expansion coincided with their extension into the Black communities themselves.It is written from the personal perspective of the author from the time of his attendance at the first Waldorf School in Cape Town, his years as a Waldorf teacher in Johannesburg and as lecturer and school consultant for the new Waldorf Schools founded during the later years of the struggle against Apartheid.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973435977
• ISBN13: 9781973435976
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"