A view on Montessori Educational approach from human agency perspective

Educational approaches in childhood have been very varient. One of the popular child education approaches in the world and our country is Montessori approach. This paper aims at examining and criticizing it from philosophical view. At first part, we attempt to inference the philosophical presuppositions. Some of these philosophical components of this approach are: holistic view of child, child as social individual, attention to child inclinations, accepting child spontaneous motive for learning, proposing triple concept of freedom-responsibility - rule, concentrating on skills and instruments. At the second step we criticized these components from Islamic view of action. Some components like overestimating individuality of child, concentrating on instruments and underestimating child imagination are the most important critiques of this approach. On the other hand, some items like attention to child inclinations and balance attention to freedom and responsibility are advantages of this approach.