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Storytelling and Creativity

Storytelling is a powerful and creative backdrop for all Montessori disciplines. Carla Foster inspires elementary teachers by contrasting factual storytelling...

Orientation Towards Multilingualism in Class: A Montessori Experience

Federico Gobbo reports on a project carried out at the Scuola Montessori Milano by nineyear- old pupils as they grew interested in languages and linguistics,...

The Significance of Music for the Child

In these pages you will read of the great importance that Maria Montessori and her collaborators in the area of music ascribed to the cultivation of the...

Montessori and Music

The cultivation of a musical environment from birth, indeed from before birth, is a first necessity. Montessori understood that the child listens through...

Musical and Creative Education at the Vienna Montessori Schools during the Interbellum 101

This article follows Viennese teacher Lisl Braun and Trude Hammerschlag's contribution to the development of Montessori music pedagogy.

Listening to Silence to Making Music

The Music Environment: From the Beginning to the End

This article describes how important music is to us at every time in our life, from birth to death.

Nurturing the Creative Personality

Rita Schaefer Zener studies the passage through the Montessori materials with their increase in difficulty, complexity, and challenge as children develop...

Lecture on Handwork, Lecture 32, 27 June 1927, 13th International Montessori Teacher Training Course, London

Trude Hammerschlag provides many examples of children’s self-expression including art.

What About Free Expression?

Mario Montessori ponders the profound sketches of children under six, their uncanny likeness to impressionist and cubist art, recognizing that freehand...