The development of self-awareness & Learning in the harmony of physical and enlivened body | Live-translation

The development of self-awareness · Thomas Fuchs | DE
Learning in the harmony of physical and enlivened body · Wilfried Sommer | DE

A lecture by Thomas Fuchs followed by a lecture by Wilfried Sommer, both held at the World Teachers' Conference 2023 at the Goetheanum (10-15 April 2023).

Children, young people and adults need inner strength, health and resilience. They need intellectual, emotional and social skills to understand and accept the earth, themselves and their fellow human beings. What can we renew in our educational practice to develop what is needed to live together?

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Prof. Thomas Fuchs, M.D., Ph.D., psychiatrist and philosopher, Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Head of the Section «Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy» at the Psychiatric Department, Uni­versity of Heidelberg.  His main areas of expertise include phenomenological philosophy, psychology and psychopathology. He further focuses on. embodied and enactive cognitive science, with a particular emphasis on interactive concepts of social cognition.
Recent Publications:  Ecology of the brain. The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind. Oxford University Press. (2018) – Randzonen der Erfahrung. Beiträge zur phänomenologischen Psychopathologie. Freiburg. (2020) – In defense of the human being. Foundational questions of an embodied anthropology. Oxford Unversity Press. (2021)

Wilfried Sommer‘s professional work has its focus where University and High School meet: He is a full professor of school education with an emphasis on phenomenological methods of teaching at Alanus University, Alfter, and is a High School teacher in physics at Steiner Waldorf School Kassel. Phenomenological approaches to optics and doing physics experiments as performance art are his research areas in subject related methodology; he is interested in the relationship between cultural studies and physics. Additionally he focuses on the role of embodiment for cognitive teaching and learning processes. He is active in teacher education and pedagogical research and a board member of the Kassel Youth Symposium.