Why Do We Teach?

Maria Montessori, while pointing to “What a Montessori Teacher Needs to Be” [Montessori, 2007 (1946), 65 – 67] mentions that: “The first step [of teacher transformation] is self-preparation of the imagination, for the Montessori teacher has to visualize a child...

What Can We Learn From Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook?

Yet, when we dip into Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook, first published in England by Heineman in 1914, one of the two volumes which refer to use of the Montessori learning materials (the other is the Advanced Montessori Method, volume 2 focusing on the elementary...

Parent Partnerships

As educators we embrace our role as serving the child, following the child. Children do not develop in isolation; children are deeply influenced by the places and people around them, as Bronfenbrenner described in his ecological systems theory. Bronfenbrenner placed...

Principles of Cosmic Education

In our webinar on Tuesday 16 November Hannah Baynham and Charlie Cavaliero will reflect on the values and principles of Cosmic education and their role in Montessori teacher training.  It is their view that these principles are an essential element of the spiritual...

Montessori, Ecology and the Pedagogy of Love

By Wendy Ellyatt, The Flourish Project One of the key aspects of this phase is a raised human awareness of how we are all interconnected and how the things that go in one part of the world directly influence other parts. We are also becoming more aware of how our own...