Block Engineering (United States)

A Safeguarding-Aware Agentic AI Tutor for Montessori-Inspired Personalised Education

This record documents the design and classroom trial of a working AI tutoring system built for adolescents at Blue Blocks Montessori School, Hyderabad, and the architectural argument that follows from it: that personalisation, teacher oversight, and child safeguarding should live...

Montessori, Waldorf, and Traditional Schooling in India: A Comparative Study of Pedagogical Approaches and Their Evidence Base

This review brings together the international research evidence on three approaches to schooling as they apply to the Indian context: Montessori, Waldorf (Steiner), and mainstream examination-oriented schooling under CBSE, ICSE and State Boards. Rather than presenting new experim...

Red for Danger, Warmth for Everything: How Children Assign Colours to Communicative Light Signals

This paper is a secondary, quantitative re-analysis of an open dataset of children's responses to the Firefly Design Task, in which children aged 3–15 assign colours to three imagined light signals (Glow, Hello, Danger), choose an animal to address, and write it a message. Rather...

Drawing Life: Spontaneous Biophilic Imagery in Children's Responses to an Open-Ended Prompt — A Pilot Study from Blue Blocks Montessori School, Hyderabad, India

This working paper reports a preregistered pilot study run at an AMI-certified Montessori school in Hyderabad, India, built around one deceptively simple question: when children are invited to draw "a place where life can exist," what do they actually put on the page? Eighty-one...