Imagination and the Inner Life of the Teacher
It is not getting any easier to be a teacher. The challenges we face in education grow more difficult each year. The world in which children are growing up today demands responses from teachers that often run counter to what we have learned to think of as education. It is important to keep this in mind when we speak of inner work. What a teacher has to do today to open the inner source of pedagogical creativity, the capacity of soul that allows us to enter into a space of authentic relationship with children, is unique to our time.
Meeting this challenge hinges on the question of imagination. In a world that is increasingly being defined by algorithms, the challenge of developing the imagination takes on a new urgency. Rudolf Steiner saw the lively imaginative work of the teacher as the source of pedagogical creativity. During this workshop, together with Jon McAlice, we will explore ways of developing our imaginative capacities, of moving beyond the limits of pragmatic thinking towards the qualities of warmth and life that emerge when our thinking approaches the imagination.
Registration: Please go to the page for each workshop that you would like to attend in February 2020 and select “Add to Cart”. When you are ready to check out, you will complete the conference registration form only once.