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ERIC Number: EJ1312961
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1054-0040
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Montessori's Plan for the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Donahoe, Marta
Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, v31 n1 p30-37 Spr 2019
Montessori's writing, and particularly her underlying principles, requires study and discussion. It is hard work to understand the depth of carefully sequenced lessons and experiences that she designed to create a genuine experience for the child. This work avoids simple answers. It evades black-and-white opinions. It frowns on bullet points. Simply put, the work invites Montessorians to study, discuss, engage, and participate in transformation, and, in doing so, it promises a better world. In this article, Marta Donahoe explores the idea of what Montessori called the New Man as the vehicle for peace (Donahoe chooses to use the term "New Human"). That thread began to unspool as she explored the planes of development and remembered that the Montessori Method is peace education, guiding children and adolescents (and their teachers) within beautiful classroom environments to become more curious, caring, thoughtful, and responsible. Donahoe determines that Montessorian teachers may have learned how to launch their students on the path to being ambassadors for global peace; however, they haven't necessarily learned how to do that with one another. She concludes with some ideas for Montessori teachers to nudge along the next level of their Montessori-like processes on the path to becoming truly Montessorian.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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