Our associate centre in Lagos, Nigeria, (The Eden Montessori Teacher Education Centre) is starting a new course shortly.  For details of the Centre please visit http://edenmontessori.com.ng/ and for contact d
Learning outcomes are often used as a way of making clear what a course expects from its learners. Â MAEL has just produced a position paper of this topic, outlining the background to the educational theory be
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an educational researcher? We have a stereotype of a researcher as a university expert (maybe in a white coat) making startling discoveries. the reality is
Sometimes scientific research leads to spectacular discoveries and then there is intense debate, instant fame and (much later) Nobel prizes all round. Much more often science proceeds by a gradual and pains-t
A symposium on assessment and marking was led by Dr Maria da Costa, lately of the Institute of Education of London University, at the Kent & Sussex Montessori Centre in S.E. England. Â It was attended by c
The director of MAEL is embarking on a major research project. Â It centres on the fact that there are many different ways of implementing the Montessori approach. As a result, it is hard to say which is the mo
Sometimes research gives clear cut answers to a  research question. Someone makes a discovery, it is reviewed by their peers, published and leads to a fundamental re-alignment of our thinking about the topic
John Clarkson was a member of the MACTE (Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education) on-site verification team which visited the teacher preparation programme at the Duhovka Institute in Prague, Cze
The cohort of students who completed their degree course with us in 2013 graduated at a ceremony in Norwich Cathedral in October. Â As with previous cohorts, there was a 100% pass rate, with only 1 drop out, a
The splendid buildings of Corvinus University sit on the banks of the Danube, on the Pest side of the river in Budapest, Hungary. This was the setting for the XIV Montessori Europe Congress on the topic of â€
