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Catherine McTamaney
Catherine McTamaney
works primarily with undergraduates in Peabody's teacher licensure programs, focusing on the social and political context of public education and the integration of education and the arts. A three-time graduate of Peabody College, Professor McTamaney has been at Vanderbilt for most of the last twenty five years. In addition to her teaching at Vanderbilt, she is the author of two books on Montessori education and compassionate teaching, The Tao of Montessori and A Delicate Task, and is a noted Montessori lecturer across the US and abroad. Professor McTamaney was a member of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab from 2013 until the lab's closing in 2016, where she helped to establish the design principles of the Wildflower Schools project. Professor McTamaney supports teacher candidates and other advocates for children in her teaching, scholarship and service. She regularly teaches EDUC 1220: Society, School and Teacher and HMED 2150/2250/3250 Children's Development in the Arts as well as EDUC 3140 Learning and Development from 0-6. She currently serves as the director of undergraduate studies for the Department of Teaching and Learning. In addition, Professor McTamaney has offered three Commons Seminars, Mean Girls and Dead Poets: Teachers on Film, Work Hard/Play Hard, and Vampires, Werewolves and Demons: The “Other” in Young Adult Literature, which she cotaught with Professor Melanie Hundley. Professor McTamaney's most recent text is Picaso in the Preschool: Children's Development in and through the Arts, which evolved from her teaching at Peabody and is illustrated by Peabody undergraduate, Cynthia Vu. She authors Montessori Daoshi (
), a daily blog for parents and teachers interested in Montessori education.
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