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DOI
10.24972/ijts.2025.44.1.136
Abstract
This article outlines some of the core ideas underlying the practices of Waldorf education as re-envisioned by an experienced practitioner, as a contribution to the discussion about the educational implications of transpersonal psychology. It outlines a pedagogical anthropology that takes the spiritual dimension into account. It distinguishes between the lived body, the emergent psyche and the agentic Self as the spiritual core of being in the person. Learning is explained as a transformative process that involves the changing relationships to one’s own body, to others and to the world through which potentialities become abilities. The aim of the transformative education is the emergence of subjects capable of life-long learning and the ability to act ethically out of insight.
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Rawson, M. (2025). Waldorf education: New perspectives on a holistic approach. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 44 (1). https://doi.org/10.24972/ijts.2025.44.1.136
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