Montessori as an alternative in post-totalitarian and ‘folwark’ educational culture – ethnographical research report
Montessori as an alternative in post-totalitarian and ‘folwark’ educational culture – ethnographical research report

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issue of alternative education in the context of cultural codes. On the basisof ethnographic research conducted in primary Montessori schools in Poland the author analyses thesignificance of local culture for the global range pedagogy, and in this way questions the thesis accordingto which Montessori is indifferent to cultural differences. The results of the research show,that all three cultural codes, including the totalitarian and folwark ones are present in many differentsituations investigated during the research. At the same time Polish Montessori schools are undoubtedlythese places in which the modernization code is overwhelmingly present.

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