Oberman, Ida

Ida Oberman has written extensively on issues in Education, including “Waldorf Education and Its Spread Into the Public Sector: Research Findings, Encounter: Education For Meaning and Social Justice 21(2) Summer 2008. She has been named a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar on three occasions.

The Waldorf Movement in Education From European Cradle to American Crucible, 1919-2008
2008 0-7734-4970-1
This study examines how and why the Stuttgart Model retained its identity without central bureaucracy or a structured administrative hierarchy. One of the oldest charter school movements, its strengths and weaknesses provide critical lessons for the evaluation of emerging schools of this type.

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