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MONTESSORI COMMUNITY INITIATIVE is an attempt by a collective of parents and teachers to create learning spaces appropriate for the needs of the growing child.
How children learn
Children are natural learners, with their interests changing as they pass from one developmental phase to the next, progressing towards adulthood. Therefore, the learning environments they inhabit must also change to nurture their clearly changing predispositions.
We must also remember that these learning environments span the classroom, the home and the community – as children grow older – and include in their influences, the adults who also inhabit these spaces.
When children grow in environments created specially around them and where they are accepted for who they are, it is but natural that they will grow to their fullest potential as human beings, who are mindful, compassionate and self-directed yet capable of team-work, while confident without being arrogant.
What we Hope to Build
One of the aims of the Montessori Community Initiative is therefore to gradually acquire the capability to cater to the learning needs of children, from infants through to young adults.
Evolving with Children
Adults in these environments also grow along with the children, as many a teacher will attest and this arrangement can go on to fulfil the natural learning needs of young parents and teachers.
The collective efforts of adults in any school environment, more so in a Montessori one, may usefully mirror the naturally collective spirit in children and provide the adults involved with the space and opportunity to construct their world views in increasingly inclusive ways.
The Strength of a Community
This is why a parent-teacher co-operative structure that fosters community while offering the Montessori method to its children, is perhaps the most suited to these objectives.
There is also the economic advantage that such a collaborative venture can offer in today’s market conditions which can otherwise conspire to make Montessori schooling prohibitively expensive and thus unattainable.
