? Can you help me act on my own?
Maria Montessori
- As always in education.
- There are faithful defenders and detractors of Maria Montessori’s pedagogy.
- Many argue that education.
- As structured today.
- Does not consider the methodology of the famous Italian educator of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries viable.
For her, the school is not just a space for a teacher to transmit knowledge directly, Maria Montessori argued that the child will develop his own skills, more freely, from specialized teaching materials.
Classrooms would have students of different ages, where children themselves would be free to choose the material they want to work with and expand their skills more autonomously, define their own learning rhythms according to their particularities, always wrapped in a less rigid context where whiteboards are not as important and where children have freedom of movement in the classroom.
Maria Montessori’s pedagogical perspective has had a global impact and renewed many pedagogical methods carried out so far, to the point of impacting the traditional and more conservative education sectors.
Today, this method, which focuses mainly on the freedom of learning and the responsibility of the student himself in the process of acquiring new content, is not appreciated in most institutions, we can find this method in some private schools where many of these interesting strategies are worked, but Montessori pedagogy is not the pillar of our current education (at least not in Brazil).
Now, at this point, you may ask yourself: where has the role of mothers and fathers gone in the education of their children?Was it important? It was and remains vital. Parent support, counseling, and care are essential to educating happy children, independent adults, and good people in the future.
Here are 15 of the principles raised by Maria Montessori
“The first task of education is to stir life, but to leave it free to develop?
Maria Montessori
“When a child feels safe, can’t he get an adult’s approval at every step?
Maria Montessori
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