Connecting the Known and the Unknown in a Waldorf Classroom

Abstract

This paper focuses on the role that narrative methodology plays in the introduction of new content knowledge. You will read about known knowledge (prior skills), unknown knowledge (new skills that are yet to be acquired) and narrative methodology and how these three aspects connect. The process that I went through to discover this connection, allowed me to explore many different areas of research, the two most important areas being the concrete region and the abstract region. When introducing new content, these two regions, together with the use of narrative methodology, play a vital part in the child’s understanding of the work. All of the above share an intricate connection. I suggest that we identify these connections through understanding the complex mechanism of the ‘Swinging Bridge’.