Breaking New Ground: New Zealand Certificates of Steiner Education

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aut.relation.journalFrontiers in Education
aut.relation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorBoland, Neil
dc.contributor.authorBrice-Geard, Karen
dc.contributor.authorBell, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorCook, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-20T03:46:14Z
dc.date.available2024-02-20T03:46:14Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-13
dc.description.abstractThe New Zealand Certificates of Steiner Education (CSE) are secondary qualifications at levels 1, 2 and 3, recognized by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. They give access to tertiary education in New Zealand and beyond. The impulse for new qualifications grew from a wish to have important aspects of the taught Steiner curriculum recognized and valorized, that these aspects be credit bearing toward tertiary study, an option not offered by existing qualifications. The certificates were developed over an 18-month period and were implemented by the (then) four New Zealand Steiner schools with high school classes. The CSE are based on a suite of learning outcomes which give teachers a substantial degree of assessment autonomy, allowing them to tailor assessment modalities to the student or class being taught. Since 2012, the qualifications have been offered overseas and are now used as a pathway to university by Steiner schools in a growing number of countries. This article draws on the experiences of one of the developers of the qualification and two teachers in schools using the certificate in the UK, and outlines some of the challenges faced when breaking new ground in the advancement of Waldorf education internationally.
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Education, ISSN: 2504-284X (Online), Frontiers Media SA, 9. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1332413
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/feduc.2024.1332413
dc.identifier.issn2504-284X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17244
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SA
dc.relation.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2024.1332413/full
dc.rights© 2024 Boland, Brice-Geard, Bell and Cook. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject39 Education
dc.titleBreaking New Ground: New Zealand Certificates of Steiner Education
dc.typeJournal Article
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