RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Montessori Primary School in Delft, Holland
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 58
OP 67
DO 10.17763/haer.39.4.a0m374522202766g
VO 39
IS 4
A1 Hertzberger, Herman
YR 1969
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/39/4/58.abstract
AB This school has been made to answer the specific demands of a non-traditional teaching system, as far as was possible within the framework of the rather strict building regulations for primary schools in this country. Each classroom is considered and equipped as a complete unit, a house in itself. The houses open onto a central space, "the street"; here all activities take place between students of many ages, interrupting the unity of the classroom-groups, which are merely children of similar age. The working method in a Montessori school is not dominated as in traditional teaching methods by a fixed and static relationship between teacher and children,but exploits the infinite variety of relationships of child to child, child to work and child to teacher. Everybody makes his own choice of what kind of work he is going to do. As a result, the system is characterised by many different activities occurring simultaneously.