See my Blog: www.petervanalphen.wordpress.comPeter van Alphen started his career as a music teacher, but was soon drawn to the creative approaches in teaching all subjects in Steiner/Waldorf schools. Then followed 16 years of teaching at Michael Oak Waldorf School in Cape Town, as a primary school teacher. During the transition from the apartheid regime to a democratic South Africa, Peter pioneered a teacher enrichment program in the disadvantaged ‘township’ communities around Cape Town. This lead to the establishment of the Centre for Creative Education in 1993, one year before the new democratic government came into being. The aims of the Centre are: to support the development of pre-school carers and teachers in holistic and healing approaches of children from 6 months to 5 or 6 years of ageto provide teacher education in holistic and creative ways for primary school children between the ages of 6 or 7 to 13 years of age. As co-founder of the Centre, Peter was its managing director for 9 years and responsible for the development of teacher education programmes. From 1997, Peter and Ann Sharfman began part-time teacher education programmes in East Africa. This has provided Waldorf schools and Waldorf-inspired schools in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania with local teachers trained in Waldorf education. Peter specialises in the development of teacher education programmes and adult learning, especially in African settings. He was honoured for his work in the African communities near Cape Town by being given the African name of ‘Sipho,’ meaning ‘Gift’ in the Xhosa language. Still continuing his work at the Centre for Creative Education in Cape Town and the teacher development programme in East Africa, Peter is also involved in educational research. He is passionate about introducing imaginative teaching in teacher education programmes, as a way of bringing human values into learning at schools.Blog: www.petervanalphen.wordpress.com