Waldorf Pedagogy: Review of comprehensive development in children under five years of age

Abstract

Waldorf Pedagogy highlights the importance of understanding the psychological and physical development of children under five years of age, in the same way, this pedagogy has a human and spiritual approach, having Anthroposophy as its main base. This type of teaching is opposed to traditional pedagogy, the latter arises in most educational establishments, generating difficulties for the student body, since teachers focus more on the development of the cognitive field, leaving aside other important areas. The research seeks to describe the contributions of Waldorf Pedagogy to the integral development of children under five years of age. This research was carried out through a descriptive bibliographic review, with a qualitative approach. To obtain the information on the topic raised, different databases were investigated, and the Boolean operators were used to search for related topics. The articles considered for the investigation were the writings of the years 2016 to 2021 of recognized magazines and books in the scientific field. Two tables focused on the relevant elements and conceptualizations of Waldorf Pedagogy were made, as well as the contributions of different authors on the subject, allowing a more accurate understanding of what it is and, above all, the importance of this pedagogy for the integral development of children. This pedagogy contributes significantly to the integral development of infants, in the fields: spiritual, physical, cognitive, social and linguistic, through the use of elements proposed in the Waldorf methodology, this will allow the integral development of the child and respect for the child to be achieved individual pace of learning.