Have you ever wondered about what Virtual Montessori school is like? Not Montessori schools that temporarily held virtual classes during the pandemic, but an academic program designed to be a fully remote Montessori school?

In June of 2022, I graduated from Linköping University in Sweden with a Master’s Degree in Child Studies. For my final thesis, I conducted a qualitative study about teachers’ experiences, and their impressions of their students’ experiences, in a virtual Montessori program that started at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

My good friend and former coworker Claudia, an AMI 0-3 trained Montessorian, joined me back on the podcast to interview me about the master’s program and the contents of my thesis research. You might remember Claudia from episode 15, where I interviewed her, and episode 20, where she interviewed me about starting Multilingual Montessori.

In this episode we chat all about virtual learning - both in the contexts of the master’s program, and my research on virtual Montessori preschool, what my biggest takeaways were from interviewing virtual Montessori teachers, and what the future of virtual Montessori school might be.

Full text of Gabrielle's thesis, Virtualizing Montessori: Experiences of teachers working in a fully remote Montessori preschool (click "fulltext" in upper right corner)

View Gabrielle's research poster from the 2023 American Montessori Society conference

Episode 15. Claudia Lundahl on Montessori with Toddlers

Episode 20. How Multilingual Montessori Came to Be: An Interview with Me!⁠

Episode 32. Linda McGurk on Outdoor Living with Children

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Multilingual MontessoriBy Gabrielle KotkovSep 28, 2021