Waldorf education is based on Steiner’s ideas about education. As with the rest of his work, there is considerable controversy on how to place his contribution in relation to other philosophers and theorists of learning. Along with an expansion of Waldorf education worldwide—even in public schools (Pappano,
2011)—there is a renewed scholarly interest in Steiner as a philosopher of learning (Welburn, 2004), and in the philosophical grounding of Waldorf education and how this grounding infuses the curriculum, methods, and practices of Waldorf education (Dahlin & Majorek, 2009; Oberski, 2011). This interest increasingly acknowledges Steiner as an original thinker who nonetheless shared ideas in common with other original thinkers and school reformers of the twentieth century (Schieren, 2012).