Mitt syfte med denna uppsats är att undersöka varför och på vilket sätt individer söker sig till antroposofi. Jag vill främst göra detta genom att undersöka och beskriva attityder hos individer som har valt att gå till en antroposofisk mödra- och barnavårdcentral. Individer som inte på ett enkelt sätt definierar sig som antroposofer, eller ens som associerade med den organisationen, men som trots allt ändå väljer antroposofisk mödravård. Syftet är att lyfta fram individens val, tankar och förhållningsätt till antroposofin och till mörda- och barnavårdcentralen.

<p>Denna studie behandlar en alternativ pedagogik och belyser ett alternativt arbetsätt till den kommunala skolan. Den pedagogik som behandlas är waldorfpedagogiken och den avhandlas allmänt och med en enskild del som är riktad mot waldorfskolans sätt att arbeta med matematikundervisningen i de lägre åldrarna. Waldorfskolans bakgrund och tankar beskrivs och även dess metodik och undervisningsinnehåll. En djupare studie i en alternativ pedagogik kan utveckla synen på undervisningsmetoder och få tips på hur man kan lägga upp undervisningen. Ett annat syfte är att skapa en förståelse varför waldorfpedagogerna arbetar som dom gör. </p><p>Data har samlats in genom en litteraturstudie, ett antal observationstillfällen på en waldorfinspirerad friskola och två intervjuer. De data som framkommit ur detta har sedan bearbetats och analyserats. </p><p>Resultatet visar hur waldorfskolan arbetar mot hela människan och att en syn på barnets utveckling är avgörande för hur och i vilken ordning ämnen tas upp i skolan. Periodundervisning är karaktäristiskt för waldorfskolan och innebär att man läser ett ämne i taget under dagens första två timmar, i cirka tre veckors tid. </p><p>Waldorfskolan skiljer tydligt på matematik och räkning. Matematik innebär att man måste ha en förståelse för vad man gör och räkningen är en hjälp på vägen till svaret. Hjälpmedel som används i matematikundervisningen är mycket från naturen som till exempel kottar och kastanjer och eleverna får själva hjälpas åt att samla in dessa. Miniräknare och datorer används aldrig i de lägre åldrarna då de inte anses vara till hjälp för barnens förståelse för ämnet. Geometrin har en stark ställning och bygger på formteckning, som tillsammans med eurytmi är inslag i undervisningen som är speciella för waldorfskolan.</p>

The purpose of this study has been to compare teachers' differing methods of teaching mathematics and their perspectives on the learning process in a municipal school to a Waldorf school. The study has examined which approach best promotes student engagement and learning in mathematics in the first three years of schooling. The study is based on four interviews. The informants’ accounts are interpreted using theories from previous research. The study shows that the municipal schools and Waldorf schools use different methods in mathematics teaching. In the public school, the focus is mostly on the students achieving curriculum goals and passing the national tests in the third year of primary school. "Silent counting" and  individualized education” are methods that teachers in the municipal school make use of in mathematics teaching. In the Waldorf school students make their own textbooks, and through longer periods of teaching the teachers are aiming for deeper understanding of mathematics and its relations to the world around. The study favors the approach to teaching used in the Waldorf school in primary schools. It is assumed that students in a Waldorf school masters and have a deeper understanding of mathematics, than students in the municipal school where they work with pre-written math books.

This phenomenology begins with an observation of a musical instrument, the piano. The piano is surrounded by an aura of lifelessness, for its sound world is dominated by tone-decay and a calcified intonation system. Therefore, a physically seamless legato rendering of melody is impossible for pianists, and the inflexible symmetry of given intervallic relations enforces a loss of tonal centre when a composer ventures into the intrinsically asymmetrical domain of chromaticism. However, the melodic interval - the element lying between the acoustically sounding pitches - is in essence always inaudible, whatever the instrument. Through the development of listening capacities directed specifically toward unveiling the non-positive musical element in its origin, namely, within human consciousness, it is possible to overcome external instrumental limitations. Human being’s intrinsic musicality is revealed through phenomenological observation of consciousness in its qualitatively differentiated, ordinarily related, temporally unfolding nature. External limitations can have no hold over living melodic expression when the essence of the melodic interval is discovered self-sufficiently within the non-positive dimension of human onticity, that is, within a consciousness in which the potential for clear spiritual cognition lies dormant. ‘Tonicness’ is discovered ultimately to be an inner awareness of self-voicefulness, independent from instrumental and linguistic contingencies; and the piano reveals an historical mission to awaken - from ‘death’ - new cognitive listening faculties. This research employs the spiritual-scientific method of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy, or wisdom of the human being, which involves meditation and the cultivation of sense-independent logic as well as of lucid feeling (as distinct from blinding emotion).

The present master thesis compares die theories of colors created by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Rudolf Steiner, who both created their individual theory as a reaction regarding another one published approximately a century prior to them. The thesis presents their theories and compares them on the basis of a certain set of categories. Their circumstances of origin, contemporaneous usage, interdisciplinarity and creation of the chromatic circle as an explanatory tool are defined and discussed. Furthermore a description of noticeable differences and similarities is added and the author points out the possible influences of the chromatic theories towards other poetical, philosophical or paedagogical works of the respetive creator.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-04T19:14:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-08-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A Antroposofia é uma ciência espiritual neorromântica do início do século XX, elaborada pelo austríaco, filósofo e esotérico Rudolf Steiner, na Suíça. A Antroposofia contribui em várias áreas do conhecimento com a sua empiria espiritual imputada da fenomenologia de Goethe, cientista e poeta ícone do Romantismo Alemão. Entre as áreas que atua estão a arquitetura orgânica, a agricultura biodinâmica, a pedagogia Waldorf e a medicina antroposófica, considerada uma racionalidade médica no SUS e ampliadora da biomedicina. No Brasil, a Antroposofia se instalou na década de 1930, mas sua expansão ocorreu na década de 1960, quando inaugurou a primeira clínica médica – a Clínica Tobias, no bairro de Santo Amaro – Capital – e a primeira fazenda biodinâmica no Estado de São Paulo – atual bairro Demétria, na cidade de Botucatu – ambas pioneiras na América Latina e fora do continente europeu. O objetivo da pesquisa era o de compreender a concepção de cura na Antroposofia e sua relação com a palavra-conceito Bildung como mote terapêutico. Para isso a pesquisa adotou uma metodologia qualitativa, realizada por meio de uma etnografia, realizando procedimentos de observação participante, entrevistas em profundidade e acompanhamento da vida cotidiana dos interlocutores, descrita de forma densa. A pesquisa se iniciou em 2012, primeiro nos cursos da Sociedade Antroposófica e depois na participação das terapias do corpo, da alma e do espírito na Clínica Tobias (no Ramo Tobias); em 2013 a etnografia foi realizada no bairro rural da Demétria, acompanhando o cotidiano de seus moradores (no Ramo Jatobá); e em 2014 a pesquisa foi realizada na Suíça, em Lausanne (no Branch Christian Rose Croix). Os resultados da pesquisa apresentam uma estreita relação entre a concepção de cura e os elementos que compõem a medicina romântica alemã: a ciência, a moral e a estética. A cura na Antroposofia está na busca de uma Bildung, assim como a Bildung europeia funciona como mote legitimador para a cura, principalmente na classe média alta paulistana intelectualizada. O caminho a ser percorrido necessariamente precisa apresentar uma estética épica no enfrentamento da adversidade. Para isso, os antropósofos enaltecem uma gramática emocional, onde a coragem, inspirada no arcanjo Micael, e a força de vontade mitológica são a grande inspiração. No entanto, os valores estéticos da Bildung germânica se adaptaram a cultura brasileira, transformando a cura. / Anthroposophy is a neo romantic spiritual science of the early twentieth century, developed by Austrian philosopher and esoteric Rudolf Steiner, Switzerland. Anthroposophy contributes in various areas of knowledge with their spiritual empiricism imputed Goethe's phenomenology, scientist and poet of German Romanticism. Between the areas that acts are organic architecture, biodynamic agriculture, Waldorf pedagogy and anthroposophic medicine, considered a medical rationality in the SUS and amplifying biomedicine. In Brazil, Anthroposophy was installed in the 1930s, but its expansion occurred in the 1960s, when he inaugurated the first medical clinic – Clinic Tobias, in Santo Amaro – Capital – and the first farm biodynamic in São Paulo – the current Demetria district in the city of Botucatu – both pioneers in Latin America and outside Europe. The objective of the research was to comprise the concept of healing in anthroposophy and its relation to the word-concept Bildung as a therapeutic motto. To do this research adopted a qualitative methodology, conducted through an ethnography, conducting participant observation procedures, interviews and accompaniment the daily life of interlocutors described densely. The research began in 2012, first in the Anthroposophical Society courses and then the participation of body, soul and spirit therapies in Clinical Tobias (in Tobias Branch); in 2013 ethnography was performed in the rural district of Demetria, following the daily life of its residents (in Jatoba Branch); and in 2014 the survey was conducted in Switzerland, in Lausanne (in Branch Christian Rose Croix). The search results show a close relationship between the concept of healing and the elements that make the German romantic medicine: science, morality and aesthetics. Healing in anthroposophy is in search for a Bildung, as well as the European Bildung works as legitimizing motto for healing, especially in middle-class intellectualized in São Paulo. The way to go necessarily need to present an epic aesthetics in face of adversity. For this, the Anthroposophists extol an emotional grammar, where courage, inspired by the archangel Michael and the mythological willpower are the great inspiration. However, the aesthetic values of the German Bildung have adapted to Brazilian culture, transforming healing. / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações

Submitted by Milena Rubi ( ri.bso@ufscar.br) on 2017-11-21T17:38:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FERNANDES_Maria_2017.pdf: 1472231 bytes, checksum: 0f073fff02efc858f1d9647e6dfd6a02 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi ( ri.bso@ufscar.br) on 2017-11-21T17:38:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FERNANDES_Maria_2017.pdf: 1472231 bytes, checksum: 0f073fff02efc858f1d9647e6dfd6a02 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Rubi ( ri.bso@ufscar.br) on 2017-11-21T17:39:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 FERNANDES_Maria_2017.pdf: 1472231 bytes, checksum: 0f073fff02efc858f1d9647e6dfd6a02 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-21T17:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FERNANDES_Maria_2017.pdf: 1472231 bytes, checksum: 0f073fff02efc858f1d9647e6dfd6a02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-30 / Não recebi financiamento / The present research leaned over at basics notions of Anthroposophy in the attempt to delve into the issues that brought to the surface the need to seek another look at education. The Waldorf Pedagogy emerged from a local need in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919 and has been multiplying exponentially these days around the globe. Teacher’s training within this pedagogy takes the form of seminars over three to four and a half years. This study sought through the (auto)biographical narrative of three teachers at different moments of the training, pointed out and discussed the formative marks presented and what the impacts of this formation on the teacher who have chosen it. Four formative marks were defined - Responsibility in the formation of other human beings, critical thinking about the traditional pedagogical processes, admiration for the individual character of the Waldorf pedagogy and search for several forms of spirituality and, or, by the Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. This study showed the focus of the Waldorf formation on the individualities of each teacher that aims to enable them in the act of showing their students their unique characteristics. / A presente pesquisa debruçou-se sobre noções básicas da Antroposofia no intento de se aprofundar nas questões que trouxeram à tona a necessidade de buscar um outro olhar para a educação. A Pedagogia Waldorf surgiu de uma necessidade local de Stuttgart, Alemanha, em 1919 e vem se multiplicando exponencialmente nos dias de hoje ao redor de todo o globo. A formação docente dentro da referida pedagogia se dá na forma de seminários ao longo de três a quatro anos e meio. Este estudo buscou, através da narrativa (auto)biográfica de três professoras em momentos diferentes da formação, apontou e discutiu as marcas formativas presentes e quais os impactos dessa formação no professor que a escolhe. Foram delimitadas quatro marcas formativas – Responsabilidade na formação de outros seres humanos, pensamento crítico acerca dos processos pedagógicos tradicionais, admiração pelo caráter individual da pedagogia Waldorf e busca por formas varias de espiritualidade e, ou, pela Ciência Espiritual Antroposófica. Este estudo mostrou o foco da formação Waldorf nas individualidades de cada professora, que visa capacitá-las no ato de fazer transparecer em seus alunos suas características únicas.

Thesis (MTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. / This study explores appropriate responses to some of the challenges inherent to life today, and how a holistic design education can bring about a new reality. The approach to design learning advocated here acknowledges the present reality of fragmentation and reductionism as the fundamental and pervasive mode of understanding our world and ourselves, and seeks to develop instead a design approach grounded in inclusion, context and connectedness. Under the primary concept of profound engagement with self, culture and environment, I developed a complementary design education model exploring the role of designer as mediator between culture and nature. This model proposes future design knowing situated in environmental, social and self-awareness so as to offer a vital interface between ecology, public and the personal. Three themes emerged during the research that helped me to approach and engage with complexity during particular experiences of teaching and learning. These themes are: Wild, representing quality; Conversation, representing experience; and Transformation, representing consciousness. With these themes in mind I entered into the untamed territory of my research seeking the dynamic connections and interrelationships of living processes in education. The Ensembles or modules constituting this model evolved from the work of Rudolf Steiner’s concepts of higher perception: Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition, made clear through following Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s phenomenological method. Goethe’s phenomenological method – “delicate empiricism” – is essentially a participatory, perceptive practice with which to harness qualitative ways of knowing. The methodology supports students to cross the divide between abstraction and holistic relational modes of knowing that are context-sensitive. The research study reconsiders the current worldview and determines ways in which to develop relational awareness through deliberate learning experiences. These ways imply re-focusing existing awareness with personal qualities and active participation. The Ensembles open up new ways of perceiving emergent process rooted in integrated, flexible and evolutionary processes. Students’ learning experiences are traced as they develop their capacity for interconnected decision making modelled on living processes. This in turn helps develop the model further, so that in the future designers may embrace ways of thinking and doing design that are more flexible, mobile, delicate and sustainable. The radical humanist perspective and qualitative methods used in the study advance the pedagogical approach embedded in human engagement and interaction, and encompass logic, intellect, creativity, imagination and philosophical reflection. Thus the critical shift, from perceiving the world as abstract and as “something out there” to a deeper inner knowing and understanding, is embedded in the education model as an opus of Ensembles reflecting a pedagogy of lived experience, grounded in embodied creative practice.

A identidade visual das escolas Waldorf, que constituem unidades independentes entre si, é construída de uma forma diferente da que ocorre em outras escolas. Elas apresentam uma série de manifestações visuais espontâneas, que as fazem ser reconhecidas como parte de um todo. Nesta pesquisa qualitativa procurou-se compreender que manifestações visuais são essas e de que forma elas ajudam na construção das identidades visuais dessas instituições. Buscou-se também entender como tais identidades se relacionam com os preceitos filosóficos desta pedagogia específica. Nas pesquisas exploratórias realizou-se um levantamento que abordou determinadas escolas particulares na cidade de São Paulo, de modo a se compreender o contexto em que as escolas Waldorf se inserem: um universo que apresenta variedade e exuberância de estilos gráficos. Para esta compreensão, foi necessário classificar estas escolas com critérios relacionados à sua modalidade de administração - escolas autônomas ou componentes de um sistema de ensino com administração central. As instituições também foram classificadas quanto a sua orientação: religiosa, comunitária, \"internacional\" e/ou bilíngue. Finalmente, as escolas foram classificadas quanto à orientação pedagógica/filosófica. Foram feitas então pesquisas bibliográficas acerca dos conceitos e estratégias de marca, marca gráfica, identidade visual e sistemas de identidade visual, como também das teorias que tratam da pedagogia Waldorf e da Antroposofia, um movimento filosófico, criado por Rudolf Steiner, no início do século XX, do qual esta pedagogia é uma aplicação prática. Esta pesquisa é um estudo de casos múltiplos, por envolver várias escolas independentes. Para a constatação das manifestações visuais, foram feitas pesquisas de campo com registros fotográficos em cinco escolas Waldorf, selecionadas na cidade de São Paulo: Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner, Colégio Waldorf Micael, Escola Waldorf Francisco de Assis, Escola Waldorf São Paulo e Escola de Resiliência Horizonte Azul. Para a compreensão da relação dessas manifestações visuais com os preceitos filosóficos desta pedagogia, foram realizadas entrevistas com pessoas ligadas à pedagogia Waldorf e à Antroposofia. Este estudo concluiu que muitas escolas desta pedagogia fazem uso de tipografias características da Antroposofia em suas marcas gráficas e que algumas estão instaladas em edifícios, cuja arquitetura é característica da Antroposofia. No entanto, mesmo sem esses elementos identitários da pedagogia Waldorf, as manifestações visuais originadas dos seus preceitos filosóficos ajudam a construir uma identidade visual muito particular, em um processo natural e espontâneo. / The visual identity of the Waldorf schools, which are independent units from each other, is built in a different way from that seen in other schools. They have series of spontaneous visual manifestations that make them be recognized as parts of a whole. This qualitative research tries to understand what these visual manifestations are and how they help in the construction of the visual identity of these institutions. It also sought to understand how such identities relate to the philosophical precepts of this specific pedagogy. The exploratory research carried out a survey that addressed certain private schools in the city of São Paulo, in order to understand the context in which the Waldorf schools are included: a universe that has variety and exuberance of graphic styles. For this understanding, it was necessary to classify these schools within criteria related to their administration mode - autonomous schools or components of an education system with central administration. These institutions were also classified according to their orientation: religious, community, \"international\" and / or bilingual. Finally, the schools were classified by educational / philosophical orientation. Then, literature researches were conducted about the concepts and the strategies of brand, graphic brand, visual identity and branding systems, as well as the theories related to Waldorf education and Anthroposophy, a philosophical movement created by Rudolf Steiner at the beginning of the 20th century, of which this pedagogy is a practical application. This research is a study of multiple cases because it involves several independent schools. To verify the visual manifestations, on site researches with photographic records were taken in five Waldorf schools selected in São Paulo city: Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner, Colégio Waldorf Michael, Escola Waldorf Francisco de Assis, Escola Waldorf São Paulo and Escola de Resiliência Horizonte Azul. To understand the relationship of these visual manifestations with the philosophical precepts of this pedagogy, interviews were conducted with people connected to the Waldorf education and Anthroposophy. This study found that many schools of this pedagogy make use of type fonts that are characteristic of Anthroposophy in their graphic brands and some are lodged at buildings which architecture is characteristic of Anthroposophy. However, even without these identifying elements of Waldorf education, visual manifestations originating from its philosophical precepts help build a very particular visual identity, in a natural and spontaneous process.

Waldorf pedagogy emerged from anthroposophy and has the same founder, Rudolf Steiner. Because of this, there are some researchers and public debaters who discuss how and in what ways Waldorf pedagogy is shaped by anthroposophy. When these sources suggest that Waldorf education is characterized by anthroposophy, one can wonder if the school subjects in Waldorf schools may also be characterized by anthroposophy. As a future teacher of religion, I would like to see if religious education (RE) at Waldorf schools is characterized by anthroposophy, partly because of my own interest and edification, and partly to elevate and give room for teachers of religion in Waldorf schools, since it has not happened before. This essay examines if RE in Waldorf schools is characterized by anthroposophy through looking at what kind of teaching materials are used in RE and if teachers of religion are anthroposophists. This essay is based on a qualitative method that focuses on interviews with seven teachers of religion in five different Waldorf schools in Stockholm. In view of the collected material, every respondent stated that RE could be shaped by an anthroposophical view of the human being if the teacher of religion chooses to use the curriculum of Waldorf schools. Whereas the curriculum is characterized by anthroposophy with its perspective on human development stages, RE in Waldorf schools could also be influenced by it if the teacher of religion chooses to use as a part of the education.