The narrative of the life of a university Professor (also an experimental educator), as described in this paper, focuses on the practice of education and the growth of life, and reunderstands and thinks about “education” through the critical review of “life growth”. This story is a narrative journey in which “educational practice” meets “life growth” and represent the “philosophy of education” from the understanding in action.
This study is a narrative inquiry into the meaning of the life line, targeting at one university teacher-trainer (who is also a Waldorf educator). Specifically, this inquiry into Waldorf education and life development is departing from the angles of a participant’s anthroposophical life development, as the axis of “longitudinal inquiry” and the vital spirit of educational philosophy as the axis of “horizontal inquiry”. The development of the life story in this paper presents important narrative line as follows: 1.The important themes and life line presented in the participant’s growth experience in this narrative are the two forces of life that Waldorf education emphasizes as “exhaling to inhaling” and “releasing to tightening”; 2.This paper narrates the growth history of one participant. The significance of the developmental stage of “truth-goodness-beauty” is presented in the discourse of anthroposophical life history; 3.The educational practices of a participant in this narrative is authentically mirrored and then connected to her personal life growth; 4.This paper narrates the relationship between a participant life path, educational practices, and educational philosophy; 5.The narrative of the participants’ continuous engagement in the life-transforming experiences with reference to the educational practice provides an important meaning of the integration of body, mind and spirit, teacher training, life education, and Waldorf educational philosophy.