This book investigates the concept and practises of imaginative teaching. Since Rudolf Steiner
(founder of the Waldorf schools) wrote extensively on the subject and is renowned for his
contributions to education his work is used to develop insights into the nature of
'imaginative teaching'. Given the societal changes since Steiner's time however the topic is
further developed by examining imaginative teaching in three Steiner primary classrooms using
the methodological means of ethnography and phenomenology. The insights gained from this
undertaking are used to re-theorise aspects of Steiner's writings about imagination and
holistic education. In this study it is argued that imaginative teaching is made up of three
modes of pedagogy and seven teaching methods and that these modes and methods form a most
potent means for connecting children with aesthetic intellectual and physical development.
