German Montessori Society
The German Montessori Society e. V. (DMG) is a registered association founded by Clara Grunwald in Berlin in 1925 . Its name goes back to the Italian reform pedagogue Maria Montessori (1870–1952).
Seat
From its foundation in 1925 until the ban in 1935, the association was based in Berlin. Today the association has its seat in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden .
aims
According to the statutes, the association serves charitable purposes by promoting and disseminating Montessori pedagogy in accordance with the principles of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) with all available means for the German educational system. In addition, the DMG organizes lectures, congresses, supports Montessori institutions and publishes.
history
German Empire
Weimar Republic
The foundation was flanked at the time by the so-called "Montessori Committee", which was composed of educators. This was later replaced by the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Montessori Method in Germany.
In the year it was founded, the company organized the first training course on the “Montessori method”, a reform pedagogical concept. The society also issued its own publication, the Montessori News .
On the occasion of Maria Montessori's first visit to Germany (probably 1931 or 1932), Clara Grunwald chose the Private Forest School Grunewald, run by Toni Lessler (1874–1952), as the venue for a large reception. Since 1930 the school had its own Montessori class with 32 students and appropriate Montessori equipment (teaching material, furniture). It was the first free private school in Germany to implement the Montessori concept.
In the 1920s, several so-called Volkskindergartens and Volkskinderhäuser were set up in Berlin, often for disadvantaged children. In addition, Montessori children's homes, Montessori classes in elementary schools (from 1926) and the private Montessori school in Berlin-Dahlem were founded.
At the end of the Weimar Republic, there were around 24 publicly sponsored Montessori children's houses and an unknown number of Montessori schools under the sponsorship of DMG.
time of the nationalsocialism
The Montessori classes and schools were in April 1933 by the Nazis in terms of the frequency operated by such DC circuit closed. The formal ban on Montessori work followed in November 1935.
Federal Republic of Germany
In 1952 the DMG was re-established at the suggestion of Maria Montessori and with the active participation of her son Mario. Maria Montessori became honorary president.
periodical
The DMG is the publisher of the half-yearly publication for Montessori pedagogy Das Kind .
literature
- Franz-Michael Konrad: The kindergarten - its history from the beginning to the present . Lambertus Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-7841-1532-2 , p. 175.
- Diana Stiller: Clara Grunwald and Maria Montessori: The Development of Montessori Pedagogy in Berlin . Diplomica Verlag 2008, ISBN 3836665220 , pp. 95/96.
- Heiner Ullrich / Susanne Strunck (eds.): Private schools in Germany: Developments - Profiles - Controversies . Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 3531942476 , p. 81.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiner Ullrich / Susanne Strunck (eds.): Private schools in Germany: Developments - Profiles - Controversies . P. 81
- ↑ DMG - About us. German Montessori Society V. at: montessori-gesellschaft.de, accessed on August 8, 2015
- ↑ Heiner Ullrich / Susanne Strunck (eds.): Private schools in Germany: Developments - Profiles - Controversies , p. 81
- ↑ Franz-Michael Konrad: The kindergarten - its history from the beginnings to the present , p. 175
- ^ Diana Stiller: Clara Grunwald and Maria Montessori: The development of Montessori pedagogy in Berlin , p. 95/96
- ^ Rainer Völkel: German Montessori Society (DMG), pp. 107–114. In: Maren Gronert & Alban Schraut (eds.), Handbuch Vereine der Reformpädagogik, Bibliotheca Akademica, Pädagogik series, Volume 13, ISBN 978-3-95650-459-4 , Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2018.