A Historical Look at Montessori’s Erdkinder

As a member of the founding team of the Hershey Montessori Farm School in Huntsburg, OH, Mr Barker is heavily interested in the origins of Erdkinder and presents us with a well-researched article. The background into the history of reform pedagogy’s concepts for the secondary school around the 1900s inspired by the Landerziehungsheime is thorough, clear, and enlightening.