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Mar

Making Peace With Supranature: Montessori Education in the Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change

How do we, as Montessorians embrace responsibility for our deep interdependence on the natural world and bring it into our classroom practice in a way that speaks to the urgency of the times in which we live--the age of anthropogenic climate change? Furthermore, how do we take Montessori’s concept of “supranature”—that which humans construct, alter, and mold out of nature—to discover a meaningful way to integrate the best of Montessori with the truth of environmental destruction? First of all,
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Mar

Montessori-ish, Montessori-esque, Monte-something: The International Baccalaureate, Stalwart Schools

"My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and will." Dr. Maria Montessori Reality check. Though the original intention of the woman, Nancy Rambusch, who is credited with the revival of Montessori education in the United States was to spread it to all children,

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06 Mar, 2017

Montessori-ish, Montessori-esque, Monte-something: The International Baccalaureate, Stalwart Schools

"My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and will." Dr. Maria Montessori Reality check. Though the original intention of the woman, Nancy Rambusch, who is credited with the revival of Montessori education in the United States was to spread it to all children,

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