Getting out of the box! Keynote speech delivered during the Annual Montessori Europe Congress, Gdansk, Poland, 2023
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: of Gdańsk, Social Sciences Faculty, 30 September 2023).The editor of this volume decided to publish the speech in an unmodified form to keep the message original and in order not to lose its powerful potential that contributed to the title of this special issue as well as to the motto of the next Montessori Europe Annual Congress 2025, which will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 9 to 11 May.The theme of the Congress is "Montessori: Out of the Box".The only edits include linguistic and grammar details and punctuation.André Roberfroid is AMI's Global Ambassador.He was UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for programme and strategic planning, in charge of developing the overall UNICEF strategies in the field of child health, education, nutrition, and child protection until his retirement in 2003.His past work involved work for children in Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.In 1984 he became senior planning officer in the UNICEF regional office for the Middle East and North Africa, and advised governments on policies for children in all the countries of the Middle East (from Morocco to Iran).André was President of AMI from 2005 to 2014.André Roberfroid has been committed to child rights for most of his life, having worked for UNICEF for more than 30 years, which then led him to connect with AMI and the global Montessori community.Often referred to as a child rights militant, André also contributed to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.André continues to support AMI in his role as Global Ambassador. We educators need to get out of the box!We need to get out of the Montessori method box!Lech Wałęsa said:The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of the workers, the peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Source: Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji
Author: André Roberfroid
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405338576