14: Embodied Blended Learning: Transforming Potentialities Through Holistic Modes of Experience

This chapter explains the ways in which (Steiner) Waldorf education uses a holistic approach to engage the whole person in transformative learning processes that focus on forming relationship to the body, the Other and the world. This approach is based on a pedagogical anthropology that recognizes a spiritual core as the agentic will within each person. It explains a holistic theory of generating knowledge of the world that is also constitutive of identity and sense of self. It also introduces an innovative new way of identifying the various modalities of engagement between the self and world as a process that leads to habits, dispositions, skills and knowledge.