What can we learn from three-year-olds about justice?
Their spirit of exploration, integration, and fearlessness will be discussed as motivation and guidance for the Montessori community to collectively evolve in an ever-changing, diverse world.In this session, we engage in embodied remembrance techniques to put ourselves in a three-year-old’s mind and body as they explore their environment through their senses. What do we learn about our biases, sensitivities, and fears?
Maati Wafford offers a distinct approach to lifelong learning that creates avenues for the coexistence of science, spirit, and social justice. Her unique perspective integrates social work competencies around equity, mental health, and community models of care with justice-oriented pedagogy.
Topics that will be explored:
- The potent sensory life of the young child as a guide to undoing internal and external systems of inequity.
- The role of sensorial materials and embodied early childhood classrooms.
- Justice frameworks that protect the psychic integrity of the young child.
