Combining Montessori Pedagogy and Computing Education: First Insights from a Systematic Literature Review

Montessori pedagogy has a comparatively long tradition of more than 100 years while CS education still is an innovative and future-oriented discipline. Montessori pedagogy is in particular known for its material and accompanying methods, criteria and learning theory. A combination with CS education could therefore advance it towards creating material that allows for self-empowerment of learners in a constructionist way that is also prevalent in current CS education and its research. We therefore conducted a systematic literature review and identified 34 papers. First results show that there is a focus on programming and while all educational levels are included, there is a slight tendency towards primary school education. When looking at the specific mentions of the Montessori pedagogy, it is mostly used as a source of inspiration for, for example, creating CS teaching material. Within the results, first conclusions are drawn and finally, future work is suggested.