Human Tendencies A term used by Montessori to describe innate predispositions, which drive human beings to interact with the external environment, and enable us to acquire human characteristics.
They are observable in human beings throughout their life - regardless of the time or culture in which they were born.
The Human Tendencies manifest as behaviours which enable the child to engage in experimental interactions with environment for their own self-construction and development.
Maria Montessori identified a number of Human Tendencies, including:
- Orientation
- Exploration
- Order
- Communication
- Work, Repetition and Self-correction
- Exactness
- Abstraction and Imagination
- Mathematically functioning mind
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