SELF-CULTIVATION AND THE EDUCATION OF SENSIBILITY IN WALDORF PEDAGOGY

This article discusses the role that aesthetic experience and human sensitivity play within the educational parameters of Waldorf Education, from the approach of the philosophy of education. The paradigm break occurs in the emphasis and valorization of human experience, as a source of experiences that enrich the world of sensations and feelings to support the human being's cognitive life. Steiner was inspired by Goethe's phenomenology to found his conception of education and valued the development of sensibility as ideal for human formation (Bildung). Sensitibility education is an important factor both in the self-cultivation (Selbstbildung) of teachers and in the education of children and young people. The key element in understanding aesthetic education is not what is taught, but how.