From the free child to the free man: Educating to choose through the Montessori method

Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Grazia Romanazzi
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2019/2 Language Italian
Pages 13 P. 329-341 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2019oa8761
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Freedom, autonomy and responsibility are the ends of every educational process, especially in the modern society: globalized, rapid, in transformation; society in which each one of us is called to make numerous choices. Therefore, it is urgent to educate to choose and educate to the choice, so that young people can emancipate themselves from possible conditionings. To this end, the Montessori method represents a privileged way: child is free to choose his own activity and learns "to do by himself" soon; the teacher prepares the environment and the materials that allow the student to satisfy the educational needs of each period of inner development. Then, Montessori gives importance to adolescence because it is during this period that grows the social man. Consequently, it is important to reform the secondary school in order to acquire the autonomy that each student will apply to the subsequent school grades and to all areas of life

Grazia Romanazzi, Dal bambino libero all’uomo autonomo: educare alla scelta attraverso il metodo Montessori in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2019, pp 329-341, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2019oa8761