THE EDUCATION AND SCHOOL CONCEPTION OF WILLIAM KILPATRICK AND RUDOLF STEINER AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues de Paula, Helena Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Carlos Moreira, Evando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Prática Docente
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.cfs.ifmt.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/rpd/article/view/371
• topic: Pedagogia de Projetos; Pedagogia Waldorf; Pensamento Livre; Project-based Pedagogy; Waldorf Pedagogy; Free Thought; Pedagogía de Proyectos; Pedagogía Waldorf; Pensamiento Libre

The processes of school education in Brazil and in the world have been questioned in regards to its effective contribution to the life of children and youth, as well as to the adults they will become. Therefore, the present essay has as aim to reflect about the theoretical assumptions of William Kilpatrick, in the work “Education to a civilization in change” (1978), and of Rudolf Steiner, in the works “The pedagogical practice” (2000) and “Fundaments of the Art of Teaching” (2015), in relation to the organization of the teaching, to the teacher’s role and to the evaluation of the learning, having as central element an education to learn to develop free and democratic thought. We assumed that such theoretical conceptions could contribute to the improvement of education and to the contemporary formation from lively and meaningful experiences to children and youth. It is still suggested that the pedagogical tract and its attitude towards what is knowledge is transformed so that society also gets transformed, however, to do so, the work in the classroom must be alive, creating conditions to the construction of free thinking from ideologies and massification.