Tuesday (15th of May) | 6:00 p.m. | Lower Silesian Film Centre, Warsaw room
In Polish
Tickets available at the cinema box office
Entry to the debate is free, priority for ticket holders
“Education should never again be only a way of transmitting knowledge, it must instead transform to give freedom to human potential.” – Dr. Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori created the philosophical, psychological and pedagogical rules of how to work with children. Known today around the world, the Montessori method teaches freedom instead of obedience and is 100 years old. Are the ideas of the method still relevant today? What is the phenomenon and it’s popularity based on? Should the ideas of the theory be modified appropriately to contemporary needs, or – as Montessori herself wanted – be aligned with the initial ideas?
Participants of the debate will include:
Tomasz Tokarz – coordinator of the Navigo-Centrum Innovative Education, coach, mediator, teacher in alternative schools (including the European Center of Montessori Education)
Iwona Lipowska – principal of the DCEM Elementary School and Montessori Pestka Pre-School, board member of Lower Silesia Montessori Education Center Foundation and director of post-graduate studies in Montessori Pedagogy in pre-school and first years of elementary school at the WSB University in Wrocław.
Paweł Rudnicki – dean of the Department of Pedagogical Sciences of the University of Lower Silesia, a teacher and political scientist.
The debate will be conducted by
Dorota Whitten – sociologist, mediator, trainer.
