WALDORF PEDAGOGY: HOW ITS CURRICULUM INFLUENCES THE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS
Waldorf Pedagogy; Cognitive Development; Curriculum.
Our research project seeks to understand about “Waldorf Pedagogy: how its curriculum influences the cognitive development of students who go through the ages of 09 to 10 years and how this pedagogical practice can arouse the intellectual capacity of the student who will collaborate to greater autonomy and development of the student's individuation process.[RR1] This is a qualitative research, having the Hermeneutic Phenomenology as an epistemological approach, with bibliographic and documental research, with the application of semi-structured interviews and field observation, to collect the data that will be understood through the reports and manifestations of the research subjects. The methodology used comes from the author Rudolf Steiner through his phenomenological line Anthroposophy and Waldorf Pedagogy, including dialogue with authors of the same approach as well as authors of other lines of thought [RR2] that contribute to the understanding of the developed theme. We hope that the results of the research collaborate in the understanding of how the practice of the Waldorf curriculum, the lived experience among students who go through the age of 09 to 10 years, can collaborate in the student's cognitive development and in their individuation process for a development with greater autonomy.