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Today, in my series Meet a Montessori-family,let me introduce you to Zainab and her family. Zainab is a Montessori teacher, based in London and the mother of two children. She runs Montessori workshops for parents in London.在蒙台梭利工作室找到她。
I see Montessori as a way of life. The name of my business has always been Montessori-family as I am convinced that every family can benefit from the Montessori education. And every family will use Montessori in its own way.
您能告诉我们一些关于您自己，您的家人以及您居住地的信息吗？
我是蒙台梭利老师，母亲的母亲，两个女儿，姐姐，妻子和朋友。我来自一个混合的遗产家庭，我的孩子们也有另一种文化可以加入混合。我们过着与我长大的西伦敦和伦敦南伦敦之间的家人和朋友的生活。
您是如何首先对蒙台梭利感兴趣的？蒙特梭利真正引起了您的共鸣，您如何了解它？
我拥有图形设计学位，因此在肖尔迪奇（Shoreditch）的一家惊人设计机构度过了美好的几年之后，我花了一些时间在南非度过。它给了我一个空间来问自己我理想的工作是什么，与孩子一起工作一直很接近我的心。我的sister子建议我与她的孩子的蒙台梭利老师谈谈一个想法，这变成了MCI公开的夜晚，并立即被精神和方法感动。有些事情是关于聆听孩子的真理，并允许孩子可以在不中断的情况下使用材料，这确实引起了我的共鸣。我也喜欢如何如此认真地拍摄游戏，以至于实际上被称为“工作”！
您是一名受过训练的蒙台梭利老师，那么您如何培训影响您的育儿？
I think it’s often the case that just because you are a teacher, it has no bearing knowing at all as to what to do as a parent! I’ve taken lots of advice from wonderful family and friends to help me through the first few years of my parenting journey and continue to do so. It has definitely given me flexibility and humility about changing approaches depending on the needs of, well, everyone. It has also helped me step back, observe, see things ‘scientifically’. This has been a real gift as I have really enjoying watching my children grow with me, and independently of me – a very special thing which I highly recommend.
当父母第一次找到蒙台梭利时，可能是因为玩具或一些特定的材料（家具）。您是否有您后悔购买的蒙台梭利“品牌”物品？
I have always erred on the side of less is more, with clothes, toys, activities, even décor. I do remember thinking that I should really get up to date with nursery design or lovely children’s outfits when I was in the thick of breastfeeding, but it just never seemed to suit us. My husband and I gratefully borrowed many items, happy to return once the children had grown out of them and chose not to spend money on the children beyond too much need. Of course there are a few things here and there that we spent on, but to be honest I’ve been liberal about buying arts materials like paints, inks and weaving bits which have never let me down. My rule is if I think I love it, sleep on it, then see if I still love it in the morning – I almost never do.
Talking about “materials”, what would be your must have items?
手工艺材料。无论我们走到哪里，我仍然会收集这些东西，它不仅对孩子，而且在我自己身上也充满了对创意艺术的热情。I do have some ‘Montessori’ shelf activities I got from a local nursery setting that closed down, so had huge discounts but outside of a classroom setting, they sort of, don’t work so well, so I’m glad they weren’t bought new. Pens, pencils, scissors, stamps, needles, pins, thread, clay, cutters – these things have been so fruitful on so many levels and work through all the ages and stages my children (and I!) pass though.
在我的工作中，我想证明任何家庭都可以在家中与孩子们一起使用蒙特梭利原则。您如何将自己定义为蒙台梭利家庭？对您最重要的蒙台梭利原则是什么？
这是我发现如此温暖的一件事，当我们第一次与我联系时 - 它完全引起了我的共鸣 - 理解的是，蒙特梭利原则不必限于教室，这是一个昂贵的教室。金钱或邮政编码也不是社会经济状态应该是享受蒙台梭利方法在家庭和家庭中受益的障碍，对我们来说，这与蒙特梭利背后的思维方式，理论和哲学非常重要。随着我的孩子的成长，我要说的是圣灵的联系是驱使我们作为一个家庭的人 - 即使我们放弃了灵性和联系。它使我们能够经过许多与家庭生活相关的变化阶段，并带有一条织物的光线。鼓励独立性，解决问题和讨论以及思想和想象力的创造力的原则是我们绝对要坚定的。
我记得您谈论的是如何将蒙台梭利视为昂贵且独家。在您的工作中，您想展示每个人如何完成蒙台梭利。您能告诉我们更多有关您与父母和社区的工作的信息吗？
I’m really glad that is what you remember about my work – from the beginning I’ve been very aware that it has such an ‘elitist’ aka ‘monied’ aka ‘white’ undertone – the common practice of Montessori today does not welcome everyone from all backgrounds, even though the original work of Maria Montessori absolutely does. I began my business working with home-schooling families, those who have stepped out of the mainstream system to find their own feet, and I went onto working directly with parents through my workshops to connect with home life, as so many parents were speaking to me in my nursery settings about what more they could do at home to support their children. It was clear that they genuinely felt at a loss as to how to connect with their own children, especially if they are at work for the majority of the week.
As a mixed-race, Muslim woman and mother, race and heritage are really important to me, and it became increasingly clear that people of colour really feel that Montessori wasn’t aimed at them, generally speaking, unless they really put hard work behind incorporating it into their lives . I make effort to work within community spaces, with low costs to my workshops to make them as accessible as possible, and to connect with those who otherwise would not see Montessori as having a place in their home. If the effort is put in for one child in the home, one home in the street or one street in the neighbourhood it can this can be life-changing for whole communities.
关于孩子的教育，您未来的项目是什么？（如果您在家上学，请谈论如何以蒙台梭利为基础）
We have recently decided to send my very sociable daughter who has just turned 4 to the local, mainstream school. I had plans for possibly home-schooling her, then flexi-schooling, or keeping her at her wonderful Montessori setting for another year, but she really seems ready and keen to have that social experience of school, as we all know it to be. I just cannot provide her with that social scene, and we continue to take a Montessori approach at home, so I am hoping to take the best of it and work with it. After everything that has changed in the world recently, gratitude has taken top spot in terms of priorities, and we are very thankful to be living near a lovely, local school that we can walk to, build a community around and which means I can go back to working more days per week. This decision feels well suited to us all – following the child is often one of the hardest decisions to make if you feel committed to one path already, but it is also so beneficial too for growth as a family.
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如果您不打算在家上学，您如何看待自己的孩子上学后保持蒙特梭利原则的重要性？
我觉得我还有很多要学习的东西 - 我希望能够学习我的Inshallah大师，因此继续学习既是个人的，又是家里的孩子。您精彩的每月盒子可以很好地推动我们的日常工作，并试图重申蒙台梭利表现出色，但在主流教育中可能会迷失方向。我读过的每本蒙特梭利相关书都为我介绍如何将其编织到我们的生活中。
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作为我正在写一些在线课程的研究，我已经开始听一些精彩的播客，我真的很喜欢那些已经运行了一段时间的Baan Dek。看到如何在美国进行如此投资的美国如何完成蒙特梭利，真是太有趣了。不用说，您的新闻通讯是我的常规阅读，因为它得到了如此有用的提醒和链接。Facebook团体很高兴看到家庭当前正在发生的事情。我也刚刚开始阅读凯瑟琳·麦克塔米尼（Catherine McTamaney）的《蒙特梭利的道》，我已经喜欢其中的一切。
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