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Where to begin? <\/span><\/p>\n I usually begin to answer this question by saying ‘it is an alternative form of education.’ How I wish it \u2022 creating independence for the child <\/p>\n HOW do you do that?!<\/span><\/p>\n With a classroom – or ‘environment’ – that is a mini representation of life. Everything is child sized and As adults, we are purely facilitators. We follow each individual child’s developmental needs. This They become little people who can adapt to change and enjoy learning. They are happy and <\/p>\n And what part does this play in your drive?<\/span><\/p>\n One of the charities we are supporting is Corner of Hope: a Montessori community set up in Where to begin? I usually begin to answer this question by saying ‘it is an alternative form of education.’ How I wish it was not ‘alternative’ but simply just the norm. Maria Montessori – an Italian scientist – began constructing her philosophy based on what she observed within a group of less privileged children [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[1326,1335,1334,1333],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-africa-3","tag-best-school","tag-montessori","tag-what-is-montessori","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwas not ‘alternative’ but simply just the norm.
\nMaria Montessori – an Italian scientist – began constructing her philosophy based on what she observed
\nwithin a group of less privileged children from San Lorenzo.
\nA little over a hundred years later, there is an ever growing Montessori community with legs in huge
\namounts of countries around the world.
\nThe philosophy has however become confusing, as there are many strains and versions. In its purest
\nform, it is education for peace, education for humanity, education as an aid to life, which boils down to
\na few simple points:<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 giving the child ‘keys’ with which to explore the world around him
\n\u2022 helping to nurture the children’s self-respect, respect for the environment and respect for others.<\/p>\n
\nenables the child to work through concepts created in the concrete (more on this in my next post!).
\nGroups of around 35 children with as few adults as possible (2 or 3) allow the children to function as
\nan interconnected mini society.<\/p>\n
\ntherefore means supporting and furthering their learning emotionally, physically and academically. We
\nlook at education and children in a holistic manner. As we are role models ourselves, we need to take
\naway any preconceived ideas of what WE think the children should learn, then turning to the children
\nthemselves and following their interests, using this important factor to bring on the concepts they
\nfind challenging.
\nSo how do the children turn out? <\/span><\/p>\n
\ncare about others; on top of it, each child is confident, can make choices and then, self
\nevaluate. AND have strong morals.<\/p>\n
\nan IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp in Kenya. Here, not only are the
\nchildren offered schooling, the women are given training which they can then take back to
\nset up their own schools. Fingers crossed this pilot project will inspire and enable many
\nmore people to go on and create similar models. I will develop on this in a future post!
\nIf you didn’t know anything about Montessori maybe you now know a little more, or you at
\nleast would like to find out more!
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