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The Kodaikanal Experience: Chapter I. Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview
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NAMTA Journal . Win 2013 38(1):83-91. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The Kodaikanal years were from late 1942 to March, 1944, a period of internment for Maria Montessori against her will in India. Yet in these remote hills, a fanfare and training course emerged, and so did the inspiration for an in-depth unification principle for the elementary program which we now loosely call Cosmic Education. These two interviews with Lena Wikramaratne and Mario Montessori Sr. [see EJ1078110 for the interview with Mario Montessori Sr.] capture a period of new thinking about Montessori education that personifies the interdependent components of land and water, air and energy, animals and plants, alongside the human-made world. Both Mario and Maria Montessori lived near a complex that housed families with children from infancy to age eighteen, and this location is considered to be the inspiration for their emerging insights around childhood and adolescence. [This article was reprinted from "The NAMTA Quarterly" 5,1 (1979, Fall): 44-54.]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1522-9734
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- NAMTA Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1078126
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive<br />Speeches/Meeting Papers