The elementary curriculum visualised by Dr. Montessori is referred to as Cosmic Education. Cosmic Education provides whole view of the integrated curriculum into which details may be placed in their relation to the whole making it both open-ended and interrelated. This Five “great lessons” set…
Montessori said that the children learn by unconsciously soaking in everything around them. She calls this as Absorbent Mind. The newborns have to learn everything. They have no tools, no language or conscious will to learn. They must acquire the survival skills in some other…
Another of Montessori’s contributions was the discovery of the sensitive periods in the children’s first plane of development. The Children have particular periods of time when they are driven to seek something in the environment that results in them becoming persistently engaged in some kind…