Centre For Creative Education
Associations in Cape Town

We facilitate an association of about nine early childhood development centres called Isiseko Sobuntu through varying means of professional and financial support.

The Centre has been granted degree-awarding status, accredited to grant the Bachelor of Education degree (Foundation and Intermediate Phases) and Bachelor of Arts (dance). Develop and nurture individuals to make a difference in society. Lay the foundation for in-depth professional skills and knowledge. We are committed to making education and training available in areas where development is needed but money is scarce. Our Early Childhood Development programme has been specially designed to meet the particular needs of educare centres in townships and rural areas. These courses are offered at a fraction of their nominal cost. In the township of Khayelitsha, the Zenzeleni School for Creative Education, an independent primary school registered with the Western Cape Education Department, has proven itself as a successful, thriving Centre initiative, a place where children learn and grow strong in the holistic, loving, knowledgeable atmosphere of Waldorf Education. The Centre welcomes students from all communities and backgrounds, and, where possible, offers personal arrangements in the form of (limited) financial assistance and learning support. Rooted in the principles of Waldorf Education, the Centre for Creative Education wishes to demonstrate and utilize approaches to enhance the quality of Education in South Africa by equipping educators with. so that they are inspired for and capable of striving for excellence in the broader field of Education, specifically including the historically disadvantaged communities. The first Waldorf school was founded in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. It started as a school for the children of workers in the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory. He said that education needed to be based on a far deeper understanding of the human being, reaching children in a meaningful way at the level of their development. Imagination, the Arts, creative thinking, handskills and a sensitive relationship to nature featured very strongly in a developmental curriculum from pre-school to Grade Soon further schools were founded in Europe, and today Waldorf schools exist in over 50 countries throughout the world. The Centre found funds from a broad range of sponsors to train teachers, including students from disadvantaged communities, in the creative approaches of Waldorf Education. We emphasized empowerment and healing in children who grow up under difficult circumstances. Teacher-training courses were offered since the Centre's inception, both in primary and kindergarten (pre-school). Accreditation for pre-school education (the National Diploma in Early Childhood.