Above all, every part of the language work should evoke wonder and awe at this great human achievement.Cosmic irony is the idea that events happen in life that has no causal connection but are related to a common theme. For cooperation to occur, each individual takes responsibility for their own expression. Language is presented as a tool for the transmission of culture, and as essential for cooperation among human beings. This work is the exploration of a great human achievement that’s made the creation of culture and the continuation of societies possible. So there will be a wide variety of language work happening in any 6-12 classroom. The history of written and spoken languageĪll these areas of study run parallel in the 6-12 classroom we don’t start at the beginning of each chapter and go in sequence through a syllabus.
There are six main areas of work, six areas in which we delve as fully as the child is interested and able to go. What areas of language do the children explore in the 6-12 class? How shall this truth be presented to the children so as to strike their imagination?” Put more succinctly by Dr Montessori, “Life is a cosmic agent. Our desired method is to entice, seduce and inflame each child with interest and passion, and stir the imagination. We tell true stories, offer demonstrations, and encourage children to explore to find out more, and then tell others about it. Language will be the primary mechanism through which this is communicated. We hope that, as a result, the children will be well educated, see themselves as a living aspect of creation, and be prepared to take their place in society. When we speak about Cosmic Education, we are referring to both this way of seeing, and the method we use for conveying it to children.
Excursions which take the child out of his or her familiar environment into a variety of settings in the surrounding community are an essential means of learning for the child and are therefore an integral element in the program at this stage of development. Art, craft and music are also included in the program, and the child uses computers for research and presentation. For instance the history of Egypt is tied to the Nile, to geography, to art, to writing, to geometry - as in the 3-4-5 triangle used to survey following the floods - to flora and fauna and to papyrus, the writing paper used to record the history which was the point where we entered the chain.Ĭosmic education provides a framework for all studies - subjects covered include mathematics, geometry, language, history, geography, biology, botany and science. Different subjects are considered as interconnected, and are presented as such. Studies are integrated and related to the whole. This provides a context for the study of details. When the child is presented with the story of the universe, an overview, a set of first principles is established. Cosmic education begins with the story of the universe, through which the child sees the inter-relationship of all things. Cosmic education allows children to develop a sense of awe and gratitude for the universe, their role in humanity and the work of people who came before them. Their thirst for knowledge is such that by age 12 they will have been introduced to many of the areas of study usually reserved for the secondary years.Ĭosmic education presents the universe as operating to a predetermined design in which all life, including humanity, has a part to play. Having acquired a sound grasp of the basics in preschool, children are now ready and willing to acquire culture and to discover the world and their place in it. The primary years are a great period of expansion, consolidation and intellectual growth. (Maria Montessori, To Educate the Human Potential). He is satisfied having found the universal centre of himself with all things." The idea helps the mind of the child to become focused, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. All things are part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. The universe is an imposing reality, and an answer to all questions. necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision of the whole universe. Cosmic Education is a form of relating children to the universe, its furnishings, and humanity, so that they are able to understand the law and order underlying their existence and to realise in themselves all the developing potential that is their birthright.” Dr Maria Montessori Introduced to the primary aged child (6-12 years), “Cosmic Education is related to the development of human beings, not just a new educational method, or a new technique of teaching subjects in a syllabus.
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