FROM UTOPIA TO REALITY:
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WALDORF PEDAGOGY FACING THE CHALLENGES OF AN EDUCATION FOR LIVING WELL.
Waldorf Pedagogy; Bem Viver; Utopia
The study aimed to investigate whether the philosophical-pedagogical proposal of Rudolf Steiner sha- res points of convergence with the practical philosophy of Bem Viver and its educational implications. Bem Viver is a social movement that emerges from the teachings of native Amerindian peoples and is articulated today in a broad network of actors in search of ways to build sustainable social projects. We believe that current education presents peculiar characteristics that largely contribute to the hel- plessness of modernity - that is, the content-based conception of teaching; the excess of technological attributes and experiences in detriment to the cultivation of relationships between students and tea- chers, and with nature. Such symptoms have been amplified, since March 2019, by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we articulate the philosophical-pedagogical assumptions for a sys- temic and holistic conception of education, considering the link between human beings and nature, the notion of otherness as the epistemological foundation of education; the vital nexus between theory and practice; the significance of education in view of social transformation; the role of utopia as a for- mative ideal, in the individual and collective sense.