Question and Answer: The Environment for the Six-to-Twelve Year-Old Child

This issue’s Question and Answer Section addresses in detail the desirability of dividing the Environment for the Six-to-Twelve Year-Old Child: whether we should subdivide the Second Plane by having separate environments for the six-nine year-olds and the nine-twelve year-olds. Or whether we should have just one environment for the entire six-twelve group? Camillo Grazzini and Baiba Krumins, Directors of Training at the International Centre for Montessori Studies Foundation of Bergamo, provide ample arguments from Maria Montessori’s writings pertaining to this particular question.