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Preface: The Montessori Foundations for the Creative Personality

Creativity today is not just about art, originality, inventiveness—if we look deeper into the Montessori literature it is about the formation of the entire...

The Montessori Foundations for the Creative Personality

This article is a result of a review of the literature around a changing Montessori perspective due to the recent revelations of the powers of the adolescent...

Montessori’s View of Imagination and Creativity

Clara Tornar introduces the key writings of Maria Montessori, citing the famous line, ‘human consciousness comes into the world as a flaming ball of...

Imagination, Lecture 6, 27 March 1939, 24th International Montessori Teacher Training Course, London

An unpublished 1939 lecture by Maria Montessori puts imagination right at the core of the human great work on the planet.

Imagination and Exactitude, Lecture 7, 28 March 1939 24th International Montessori Teacher Training Course, London

The Right Use of Imagination, Chapter II from To Educate the Human Potential

In Montessori’s book To Educate the Human Potential, imagination provides the underpinnings of Montessori cosmic education—a metaphysical, moral, and...

Playing with Meaning: Humour, Language Development and Imagination

Carla Foster shows how the imagination facilitates evolutionary humour, which enriches language, and how linguistic humour introduces cognitive fluency—another...

Bringing to Light Storytelling, Music, and Dance Inside a Montessori Environment

Ryan Katz speaks of dance as movement arising out of imagination—sometimes natural, interpretive, behavioural, or even spiritual. Katz shows the connection of...

How Dr Montessori’s Principles Intrinsically Foster Creativity, the Foundation for All Human Progress

The stunning arousal of imagination and the sterling creativity of imagination is the enthusiastic message presented in Phyllis Pottish-Lewis’ comprehensive...

Personal Expression

Arriving at the threshold of adolescence—in the state of becoming adult—Laurie Ewert-Krocker puts into personal terms what it means to express aspects of...