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THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF MONTESSORI EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN: IT IS POSSIBLE

Mar 30, 2023   12:00 - 1:30 pm  
306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St., Champaign, IL-61820
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The Center for South Asia and Middle East Studies (CSAMES), The College of Education, Center for Global Studies (CGS)
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Speaker: Allison Lide. Moderator: Professor Linda Herrera
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Allison Lide has worked as a Montessori teacher in the US, Afghanistan, Morocco, and Austria. Her focus is on "restorative pedagogy" with children who have been through trauma. She co-founded the Garden of Flowers Montessori Preschool in Kabul in 2002 and is working on a book about the transformative process of implementing Montessori education in Afghanistan.

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