Open AccessTechniczny, epistemologiczny i kulturowy wymiar metod kształcenia. Casus metody Montessori
Author(s) -
Jarosław Jendza,
Ewa Zalewska,
Piotr Zamojski
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
problemy wczesnej edukacji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-2230
pISSN - 1734-1582
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0008.5669
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , character (mathematics) , pedagogy , process (computing) , limit (mathematics) , epistemology , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , mathematical analysis , geometry , operating system
This article concerns three fundamental dimensions of all educational methods: technical, epistemological, and cultural. We perceive them as equally important in the process of (re)creating and using any educational method. It seems to us that the technical dimension is quite often the only one or at least the most essential one in the area of Polish educational practices, and sometimes also in the theory of education. This situation is, however, undesirable since it may lead to the decontextualisation of the methods, and – as a consequence – limit their educational potential. Referring to the Montessori approach and more specifi cally to one of the most signifi cant concepts within the method – namely to the idea of „prepared environment” in which three aspects can be distinguished: material, structural – dynamic, and personal, we describe the roles that they play in the procedures of constructing teaching methods showing their integral character.