What is it about?

This piece compiles archival and ethnographic data to illuminate the triumphs and tensions of an alternative approach to teaching and learning. In reading research-based creative letters, which are written from the perspectives of the ethnographer and Montessori founders, teachers, and students, readers are encouraged to reconsider what it means, and what it takes, to educate for humanity.

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Why is it important?

This piece offers a glimpse into the perspectives of Montessori leaders, teachers, and students. Through these letters, the author invites readers to re-examine their assumptions around schooling in general, and children’s capabilities in particular.

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This page is a summary of: Montessori Letters, Anthropology & Humanism, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/anhu.12184.
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