AMI Communications, 2011, 1-2 11 A Historical Look at Montessori’s Erdkinder Barker, Devan As a member of the founding team of the Hershey Montessori Farm School in Huntsburg, OH, Mr Barker is heavily interested in the origins of Erdkinder and presents us with a well-researched article. The background into the history of reform pedagogy’s concepts for the secondary school around the 1900s inspired by the Landerziehungsheime is thorough, clear, and enlightening. Montessori method of education Association Montessori Internationale English Article AMI Communications, 2011, 1-2