We have just begun to perceive ‘sensitivity’ which no one can provide, but nature. It is due to this sensitivity that the child entering the second year of life becomes interested in tiny things. We can conceive that in this non-conscious age that child observes enthusiastically the environment and takes it in. And these sensitivities,
Reflections! Sensitive PeriodsSrividhya Venugopalan Sensitive Periods are the special periods in a child’s development, which are limited in duration when the child’s interest in specific aspects of his environment is intense. Dr. Maria Montessori described the Sensitive Periods as the ‘flames that burn without consuming.’ A child’s psychic (mental) growth happens during these periods. When
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Today, most psychologists would agree upon the fact that it is during the first two years that most of the psychic constructions are built. These two years are of greatest importance as the deep rooted items of the personality are built only during these two years in which the child is mostly unconscious – he
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Reflections! How Montessori found meChandhrica PagadalTenbroeck Academy, Bangalore. I reached a saturation point just a few years into my corporate career. I felt like the job wasn’t adding any value to my life. I thought working with children would be a great way to feel good about the work I do, so I started working
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To answer this recurring question of – “ is the Montessori Method still modern?”, allow me to resume what has happened since its inception. In 1907, a miracle happened. In a tenement house which had been built to house vagrant families, an institution was created for their destructive and handicapped children of ages between 3
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If we think of the many things men have built in the world, of the enormous improvement that men have brought about in their environment, we may be led to believe that mankind’s mission in the cosmos is to transform nature. It has been said that man’s greatest delight is to possess things. No! Man’s
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