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The goal of this research was to explore teachers' and university students' perceptions of material, cognitive and affective-motivational characteristics as well as the acceptance of didactic materials used in Montessori schools. It has been found that both teachers and university students are not familiar enough with alternative pedagogical concepts and believe there's an insufficient number of them in Croatia. While teachers prefer Cosmic Education and Mathematics materials, university students like Language Education materials more, although teachers show more willingness to use Language Education materials in teaching whereas university students use Cosmic Education materials more readily. Both university students and teachers find it most demanding to make Cosmic Education materials, but they also believe such materials to be most concrete. The results have shown that both university students and teachers are more willing to use in teaching such positively evaluated examples of Montessori didactic materials, which have been explored in this research, when they believe them to be valuable, desirable, necessary and useful.   Key words: Cosmic Education; Educational Pluralism; Language Education; Mathematics Cilj istraživanja bio je ispitati učiteljske i studentske percepcije materijalnih, kognitivnih i afektivno- motivacijskih karakteristika te prihvaćenosti didaktičkih materijala koji se koriste u školama koje primjenjuju pedagogiju Marije Montessori. Utvrđeno je kako  učitelji i studenti nedovoljno poznaju alternativne pedagoške koncepcije i smatraju da ih u Hrvatskoj ima premalo. Učiteljima se više sviđaju materijali za kozmički odgoj i matematiku, a studentima za jezik, iako učitelji pokazuju veću spremnost koristiti u nastavi materijal za jezik, a studenti za kozmički odgoj. I jedni i drugi materijale za kozmički odgoj smatraju najzahtjevnijima za izradu, ali i najkonkretnijima. Rezultati pokazuju da kada studenti i učitelji procjenjuju materijale vrijednima, poželjnima, potrebnima i korisnima tada ujedno izjavljuju i veću spremnost za korištenje tako pozitivno procijenjenih, a u ovom istraživanju ispitivanih, primjera Montessori didaktičkih materijala i u svojoj nastavi.   Ključne riječi: jezični odgoj; kozmički odgoj; matematika; pedagoški pluralizam