Steiner Waldorf Education, Social Three-Folding and civil society: Education as cultural power

dc.creator	Bo Dahlin
dc.date	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:24:27Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:24:27Z
dc.identifier	1891-6511
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b4eafa08b1804836b6bd865dc96b93f7
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21179
dc.description	Abstract. Steiner Waldorf education is usually perceived as based on Rudolf Steiner’s comprehensive vision of human nature and development, the knowledge of which is the basic element of Steiner Waldorf teacher education. However, Steiner considered it important for teachers to be aware of the social and political issues of the times and his educational ideas can be seen as part of a social philosophy of Menschenbildung. This paper relates Steiner’s idea of a threefold social structure to various theoretical notions that have appeared recently within social and political philosophy. In particular, Cohen and Arato’s concept of civil society is found to be similar to Steiner’s notion of culture as a third, relatively independent social sphere, balancing the powers of the state and the market. The power of civil society in general and education in particular is based on the creation of meaning and identity. Steiner Waldorf education supports the formation of a cosmopolitan identity based on the universally human. Such an educational impulse is needed today as a counterbalance to the global market forces.
dc.publisher	Rudolf Steiner University College & Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
dc.relation	http://www.rosejourn.com/index.php/rose/article/viewFile/8/51
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1891-6511
dc.source	Research on Steiner Education, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 49-59 (2010)
dc.subject	Waldorf Education
dc.subject	threefold social structure
dc.subject	civil society
dc.subject	political philosophy
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.title	Steiner Waldorf Education, Social Three-Folding and civil society: Education as cultural power
dc.type	article