Faire aux defis de notre humanite Dynamique d’une aliance pour um monde responsable et solidaire chez Maria Montessori a l’ere numerique

Abstract

It is undoubtedly in the schools for Maria Montessori that the world of tomorrow is being built. On this point, the ideas of the Italian pedagogue are more relevant than ever. Perhaps before the others, Maria Montessori focused on a triple crisis that the world was going through at the end of the 20th century. That of the relationships of men among themselves, that of societies among themselves and finally, that of men in their environment. These three crises are interdependent for the teacher. Are we really out of it? Edgar Morin (1921) several years later, thinker of complexity, speaks for his part of "civilizing the earth", the idea is the same except that the impact of human action on the planet is tenfold. For Morin (2004), man has conquered the land, when will he be taught a sense of responsibility? Our contemporary societies are characterized by speed, management of emergencies, thinking of controlling time with today's digital tools, people are becoming more and more dependent on them. Education policies seem to devote more time and energy to reacting to events rather than preparing for a future which is becoming increasingly difficult to anticipate. With the entry into the Anthropocene, certain problematic foundations of our civilization are questioned. For Maria Montessori, far from digital tools, here the concern was already to challenge man on the meaning of his actions, his link with the world, and on the quest for human values such as Peace.

Can his educational philosophy help us today to think about this new universal responsibility which is imposed on us?