Modular Montessori: Educating Towards Ecological Sustainability
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Abstract
The world has experienced rapid change in the last
fifty years. Though most change can be counted
as good, there has been a fair amount of negative
changes happening that continue to be major issues
today. Issues such as climate change and social
differences are more than ever becoming issues
that need to be addressed as significant threats to
our continual existence as a culture. An opportunity
exists right in front of us to help fix these problems:
children. Our society’s children hold the key to
helping solve our world’s greatest issues, and
that key is their education. If education can take
an Eco-literate approach to teaching our children
about these issues, they will be more equipped to
handle them as they grow older. Education, as well
as the facilities that house these places of learning,
must respond to the changing landscape of our
environmental and social world and do their part
to prepare our children to face these issues.