Modus Navigandi – A Review

Turning a beach—a naturally liminal space—into a Montessori classroom offers the ideal setting not just for learning to read the wind, understand the sea, and sail, but also for giving children and young people of every ability a profound education in feeling. This is the experience Mauro Pandimiglio distills from nearly forty years running a residential sailing school in Pescia Romana, now shared in Modus Navigandi. In his account, the inclusion of people with disabilities becomes not "an objective to achieve" but "a path to follow"—one rich with possibility for each sailor-actor involved. As both pedagogue and navigator, Pandimiglio maps a journey steeped in pedagogical, psychological, and anthropological meaning. It is a fertile ground for parents and educators at every level to think through the real needs and prospects of education in self-awareness.