The montessori pedagogy for adolescence​

Adolescence is an age where strong questions arise concerning identity. It is an essential time where the phase of childhood in the family is left in order to traverse a period of physical and psychological metamorphosis from which the adolescent emerges as a young adult. The adolescent needs the freedom for his potential to flourish in this new phase of life. This necessity is why he naturally looks in his environment the needed resources from which he will be able to develop his social and economic independence. 

During the period of adolescence , the personality is reinforced by cooperation and by engaging in responsibilities that have a useful objective in the service of the community of peers. During this time of growth in the individual's life, self-expression becomes central. Creativity and communication are the heart of the adolescent's life. Being free to express oneself and to create within one's environment, he can develop his self-confidence and his natural interest for culture. 

The Montessori Pedagogy offers the adolescent an environment in which one can alternate between work and study through concrete experimentation of key cultural concepts. Daily activity includes practical life in link with domestic life as well as the upkeep and the improvement of the work environment. In these tasks, the adolescent experiences how to divide work and how complementary everyone's contribution can be. These undertakings naturally respond to his interest in challenges. Additionally, they help him in the development of the will and of morality through a direct feedback from his work.

Their activities are structured by the Plan of Study and Work - the work on a subject related to the history of humanity that leads to presentations of key cultural concepts, reading, practical work, research and presentations by the adolescents. 

The concrete and abstract aspects of the culture are naturally associated in human activity, giving the adolescent the opportunity to experience this through his work. Through free work in the prepared environment of the community, the adolescent is able to completely engage in prolonged activity and to develop the ability to organise work while cooperating with his peers. The totality of his work is aimed at fulfilling his entire potential physical, psychic, social and moral. On the basis of this fulfilment, the adolescent's interest in culture, his independence, his initiative and the meaning of his contribution in society as a future adult is reinforced. 

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