Autoeducação e liberdade na Pedagogia Waldorf.

This paper discusses the meaning of education toward freedom in Waldorf education. The phenomenological analysis is taken as support for self-development of the teacher's consciousness toward his intuitive potential. The self-education of teachers is the practical translation of the philosophical foundations elaborated by Steiner. At formation for Waldorf teachers, the self-education is explored in the dialectic between the psychic movements of sympathy and antipathy in relation with the world. The conciliation between the ideals of education and the real context, where teacher and students find themselves, would be achieved through the creative capacity, so-called by Steiner as moral imagination. The self-education would then be a principle of ethical individualism of the Waldorf teacher to avoid unilateral tendencies of moving away or losing from reality. To not result in prescriptions or formulas that merely repeat the past, the challenge of the ideal of Waldorf Education is an actualization of the teacher in existential and professional level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]