Modular Montessori: Educating Towards Ecological Sustainability

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.