Maria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context

This paper will explore some aspects of the Montessori method and pedagogy that are pertinent in rethinking today's increasingly interdependent and heterogeneous educational and school contexts (Zoletto, 2012). Personalized learning and differentiation are constant tensions in Montessori thinki...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5d73af2316a341fba919322ba2ec0b2d2021-11-30T13:47:29ZMaria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context2420-817510.6092/issn.2420-8175/13899https://doaj.org/article/5d73af2316a341fba919322ba2ec0b2d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://educazione-interculturale.unibo.it/article/view/13899https://doaj.org/toc/2420-8175This paper will explore some aspects of the Montessori method and pedagogy that are pertinent in rethinking today's increasingly interdependent and heterogeneous educational and school contexts (Zoletto, 2012). Personalized learning and differentiation are constant tensions in Montessori thinking, taking shape in the environment prepared by the adult specifically for each child, where the developmental materials offered are not conditioned by cultural affiliations (Pesci e Trabalzini, 2007) and linguistic plurality is a structural feature of the context (Consalvo, 2020), as occurs in many method schools that are experimenting with bilingual projects. According to Montessori (2000), children acquire language, habits and the characteristics of the community they are part of from the environment, and for this reason school environments and the relational atmospheres based on the uniqueness and differences of each individual are intercultural (Pesci, 2006). The paper offers some initial reflections starting from an investigation of Montessori's intercultural relevance in a multilingual perspective, one of the PRIN (2017) research areas Maria Montessori from the past to the present (Research Units: Bologna, Milan, Rome, Aosta).Francesca Linda ZaninelliUniversity of Bolognaarticlemontessori method and pedagogyheterogeneous educational contextsplurilingualismindividualized learningchild-friendly environmentEducationLEducation (General)L7-991ENFRITEducazione Interculturale, Vol 19, Iss 2, Pp 46-56 (2021)
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Francesca Linda Zaninelli
Maria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context
description This paper will explore some aspects of the Montessori method and pedagogy that are pertinent in rethinking today's increasingly interdependent and heterogeneous educational and school contexts (Zoletto, 2012). Personalized learning and differentiation are constant tensions in Montessori thinking, taking shape in the environment prepared by the adult specifically for each child, where the developmental materials offered are not conditioned by cultural affiliations (Pesci e Trabalzini, 2007) and linguistic plurality is a structural feature of the context (Consalvo, 2020), as occurs in many method schools that are experimenting with bilingual projects. According to Montessori (2000), children acquire language, habits and the characteristics of the community they are part of from the environment, and for this reason school environments and the relational atmospheres based on the uniqueness and differences of each individual are intercultural (Pesci, 2006). The paper offers some initial reflections starting from an investigation of Montessori's intercultural relevance in a multilingual perspective, one of the PRIN (2017) research areas Maria Montessori from the past to the present (Research Units: Bologna, Milan, Rome, Aosta).
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title Maria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context
title_short Maria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context
title_full Maria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context
title_fullStr Maria Montessori’s Intercultural relevance: childhoods and languages in the educational context
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