As AMI Montessori Trainer Annette Haines assures us, with no screens in their lives in Montessori school, children will become more powerfully tech savvy later, when it is of most service to them in living fulfilling lives. . .
Category: Peer Articles
Love first, first love, before and above all else, remembering always that the child needs that special love of the Guide, which is a particular kind of love, a particular quality coming through a particular sensibility of relationship of the role. Read more »
Educators are doing all they can to discover how to transform education. Little by little, by fits and starts, they are uncovering the authentic characteristics of the universal child, identifying his needs, and designing an educational process for responding to them. Educators are closing in on a better plan. Read more »
Seems so perverse of us to do away with something wonderful from the past just because in today’s world it presents certain problems. It seems much wiser to brainstorm for solutions and modifications. Read more »
In puzzling over this recent and vaunted “happiness” thing, I think it must be so alien an idea to me, whether in relation to my own life or to that of children in my care or under my influence, because I have given it almost no thought over my long life. Purpose, meaning, service – those I have fallen into and have come to value through association with others who live their lives that way with little comment on it as well as through my own personal experience of an almost accidental choice of a life’s work. But happiness??? Read more »
Powerful goal, and possible! But how do we accomplish it? Find out!!!! Read about a community of children who work hard together to bring out the best in themselves and one another. Read how the development of each individual as well as the community as a whole is expanded, enhanced, and furthered by their refusal to label themselves or one another. Read my book “Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Preventing Exclusion in the Elementary Years.”
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Children often open up after they’ve been home a while, relaxed with a piece of fruit, after playing outside, while peeling veggies by your side. That’s because they’ve had time to reflect without pressure, without being questioned. Of course, availability of screens can sabotage each of these stages.
No mincing of words here, but rather an honest description of their accidental existential situation, what parents don’t want to face straight up. Indeed, Rowan dares to confront rather than evade the reality of family life today, refusing to hem and haw about the “good” and the “inevitable” of screens in the daily life of the family. Read more »
The numbers of articles on Montessori’s human development and education, “education as an aid to life,” “education for peace,” are steadily increasing. Gratifying as this is to those of us who see Montessori philosophy, psychology, and methodology as an answer to the urgent need of social transformation, the following article is even more gratifying. Read more »