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Stimulating creativity by using Montessori silence games

Montessori pedagogy is often mentioned as an alternative approach to upbringing and education that contains special didactic materials, rules, and organization. However, one of the essential Montessori principles is mentioned a little less: the importance of silence. Maria Montessori emphasized silence as a significant segment of human existence. It is necessary for an increasingly noisy and hectic lifestyle, which often affects the lives of children. Following this principle, Montessori developed particular silence games, still referred to as silence exercises in the literature. The role and goal of silence exercises are to calm the child, introduce him to a certain educational topic, or reflect the child's reflection on an already known topic. They have the effect of increasing sensitivity to the sounds around us and refining sensory perception. They encourage inner peace and discipline and increase respect and sensitivity for other children. Like everything in the Montessori method, quiet games have their own explicit rules and serve the child for his growth and development, they can be meditative, and children love them immensely. Given that silence exercises can be performed in an infinite number of different ways, it can be said that, apart from clear rules, they are limited only by the imagination of the one who plans, prepares and performs them. Each new game of silence can be unique and original, filled with numerous new ideas for children and adults, coinciding with multiple attempts by experts to define the concept of creativity. This paper aims to point out the possibility and importance of using Montessori silent games to develop and stimulate creativity in children. In this sense, creativity manifests itself mainly through developing a divergent way of thinking and encouraging the finding of different solutions to the problem that the educational worker puts in front of the child within the game of silence.

silence games, creativity, Montessori pedagogy, Montessori silence.

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