The Montessori School in Wertingen (Bavaria) or on Alice’s adventure in Wonderland

In this article I make an attempt of brief ethnographic description of one of Montessori schools in Bavaria (Germany) – Private Montessori School in Wertingen. The article is based upon the research that was conducted in the school in May 2011. The analysis (as well as the experience of being in that school) led to the conclusion that this school is, in a way, similar to the reality that Caroll’s Alice experienced in Wonderland – especially from polish perspective. This new environment is entirely different from the one with which we deal with in Poland – that is to say in conservative, behaviouristically driven teaching culture.