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Waldorf School - the Strategy of Education of Mental Hygiene
HORÁKOVÁ, Marcela
This thesis deals with the question, what is the strategy of mental hygiene education at the Waldorf school. The aim was to find out how mental hygiene at the Waldorf school is educated and then compare this strategy with the strategy of mental hygiene education at the school of traditional education system. Another aim of this study was to show whether the correct strategy of mental hygiene education in elementary schools has some influence on the development of the child. The research was made using an analysis of the School Educational Programme for Elementary Education of the Waldorf School in České Budějovice and a questionnaire method. 28 parents of children attending the Waldorf primary school and 13 parents of children attending traditional primary school were involved in the investigation. Parents of both groups were asked the same questions regarding the issue of mental health education strategies in elementary schooling. The collected answers of the probands of both groups were mutually compared, evaluated and the results of the investigation were concluded and then confronted with the initial hypotheses. Research has found that the Waldorf educational system dedicates to mental health and mental hygiene of the child more space than a traditional approach of education realized on classical type of primary schools. Furthermore, it was found that the correct strategy of mental health education has a positive influence on the development of mental health of the child.

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