Montessori in Action Podcast
Engaging conversations with Montessori practitioners
Season 3, Ep. 12:
Summer Reads: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education
For the final episode of Season Three we will be featuring a summer read. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education is a brand new accessible resource tracing Montessori education from its historical roots to current scholarship and contemporary issues of culture, social justice, and environmentalism. It is offered in six sections covering a range of topics related to Maria Montessori and Montessori education including foundations and evolution of the field; key writings; pedagogy across the lifespan; scholarly research; global reach; and contemporary considerations such as gender, inclusive education, race and multilingualism. The book is authored by scholars and practitioners based in over 20 countries, and today we welcome two of the contributors:
Sid Mohandas contributed a section on Montessori Education and Gender: Recasting Gender in Montessori Contexts
Nacole Walker co-wrote Beyond Authenticity: Indigenizing Montessori Education in Settler Colonial United States, along with Trisha Moquino and Katie Kitchens
Nacole Walker is a linguist and educator specializing in Indigenous language revitalization. She holds a BA in Linguistics from Dartmouth College, an MEd in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment from the University of Mary, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Indigenous Language Revitalization at the University of Victoria. She received her AMI Primary guide diploma in 2019 as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Indigenous Montessori Institute. Nacole served as the director of the Standing Rock Language and Culture Institute and is currently the Wahohpi Principal of the Sitting Bull College Lakota Language Immersion Nest. Her work focuses on preserving and promoting Indigenous languages for future generations.
Sid Mohandas (they/them) is a former Montessori educator and teacher trainer, and the founder of The Male Montessorian and the Montistory platforms. They are currently finishing their PhD at Middlesex University investigating how a gendered workforce is materialised in Montessori spaces, in which they put feminist ‘new’ materialisms in conversation with anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial theories as well as lesser known subaltern studies from the Global South such as Dalit feminisms. Sid has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and contributed to edited book collections by SAGE, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Springer and Bloomsbury Publications. A full list of their extant and forthcoming publications can be found here. They are currently co-editor for a Special Issue on Bewildering the ‘Pioneers’ of Early Childhood at the Pedagogy, Culture and Society Journal.
