ABSTRACT
In an internal study with a Waldorf teacher college, this chapter pursues the question of how teachers incorporate the specific anthropological impulses of Rudolf Steiner into their teaching practice. It attempts to outline how Rudolf Steiner sketched out the character and function of anthroposophy, as he conceptualized it, and its relation to the educational science of his time. The chapter presents the results of a first exploratory survey, which the author conducted at the Intercultural Waldorf School Mannheim. This study investigates in what way a motif from Steiner's lectures on pedagogic anthropology, The Study of Man, is transformed into teaching practice. As literal translation suggests, anthroposophy is generally understood to mean “wisdom pertaining to man,” which provides, upon closer study, a plethora of associative topics, laid down in the writings and lectures of Rudolf Steiner and published in a most copious, complete edition of his works that is difficult to overview.
