Wolna szkoła w wolnej Polsce. O szkole waldorfskiej i polskim przełomie demokratycznym
Free School in Free Poland. About the Waldorf School and the Polish Democratic Breakthrough

Summary/Abstract: In this article I present the circumstances that found this German educational alternative – the Waldorf school associated with the German Reform Pedagogy – many supporters in Poland around 1989. I analyse the interwar sources of Waldorf pedagogy in the country. I follow the initiatives around the democratic breakthrough of 1989 and the conditions for the return of the idea of the Waldorf school to Poland. I also examine the Waldorf organisational categories of community, holism, ritual and art, which testify to its specificity. I therefore look at the culture of the Polish democratic breakthrough and the Waldorf category of freedom willingly adapted in Poland. The notion of “freedom” helped include the Waldorf school within the broader movement to socialise education in Poland.

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