Language: Swedish

ISSN: 1103-8101

Abstract/Notes: The child psychiatric ward at Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, has since 1977 experimentally used the Montessori method in therapy groups of 5–13 year old children. Those who have benefited most are children with neurological „soft signs”: insufficient visual, auditive or spatial perceptual ability, clumsiness, hyperactivity, emotionally impulsive or immature or speech retarded children. A surprise for the Montessori therapists was that even children with borderline type contact and reality disturbances were able to benefit—however, the treatment in these cases required more time.

Language: Swedish

DOI: 10.1080/00291463.1982.10636808

ISSN: 0029-1463

Language: Swedish

Language: Swedish

Language: Swedish

Language: Swedish

Language: Swedish

Published: Stockholm, Sweden: Carlssons, 1996

ISBN: 978-91-7203-066-4 91-7203-066-6

Abstract/Notes: This study examines processes connected to teacher’s transformation of the Montessori theory and it's described application to a daily practice. The aim is to create knowledge about what constitutes possibilities and limitations for teachers in their daily work with Montessori education. This does not only refer to what constitutes opportunities and limitations in teachers' everyday work with teaching, but also to what constitutes opportunities and limitations for teachers to learn at work. The theoretical framework is based on action theory and theories on adult learning and connects to a tradition called workplace-learning in which learning is considered to take place in, but also between, individuals. This approach indicates that the contextual conditions which the teachers were imbedded in are important to identify. The study was conducted in four different Montessori-environments and involved nine Montessori teachers. The methods used were participant observation, interviews, informal conversations and review of teacher produced material and documents. Possibilities and limitations in teachers work were related to if they had access to Montessori materials or not. In work with Montessori materials teachers identified the children's abilities to a greater extent than they did when other materials were in use. This identification directed their interventions. When the teachers did not have access to Montessori material their method often appeared to be the same as “individual work” with the provided material. Furthermore, interventions of the teacher were then significantly often procedural rather than content-related, although the teachers clearly expressed that they wanted to go into a dialogue with children about the treated subject area. The survey therefore contradicts with the opinion that Montessori-teachers withdraw in favor of Montessori materials that sometimes has been brought up by interpreters of the pedagogy. Rather, teachers stepped back when other materials were in use. The study also shows how a prerequisite for a collective development-oriented learning among the teachers was dependent on whether teachers made their own private understanding of the pedagogy available to each other. At times, however, teachers took the use of the materials for granted. Some of the teachers also deliberately refrained from making their personal understanding available to others due to the fact that they then could be seen as a less competent Montessori-teacher. This maintaining of a “false” collective understanding is seen as an expression of an institutionalization of teaching practice which was maintained by sanctions from the environment if the individual didn´t recognize the institutionalization in question. Since teacher’s “space for action” in this way was limited, the institution created conditions that prevented a possible development of the working methods in use. In those cases when conditions for a collective development-oriented learning were more favorable, it was clear that the teachers did not perceive Montessori education as a given method but rather saw it as a "model" for teaching in which the teachers had to interpret and define their own method from. The teachers thus came to take advantage of a potential “space for action” which was not noticed when the pedagogy was seen as a method.

Language: Swedish

Published: Stockholm, Sweden, 2016

Abstract/Notes: The proposal in this study define successful teaching from Hattie et al. (2017) and Grevholm (2012) research results. This is a comparative study with three teaching models in mathematics, Traditional model, Montessori model and Singapore model. The focus is on mathematics teaching in primary school, in Sweden. The study embrace a minor literature study and an interview study with three teachers, who work according the three models in their teaching. I use a socio-cultural perspective on learning, teaching and knowledge. A directed qualitative content analyze is used to analyze both the literature and the interviews. The results show the pros and cons of the three teaching models, according to the requirements of the proposed ideas of successful teaching. The results of the teachers´ statements clarify and problematize the differences between the three educational models in practice. / Denna studie utgår från en tes om framgångsrik undervisning som baseras på Hatties m.fl. (2017) och Grevholms (2012) forskning. Uppsatsen är en jämförande studie som utgår från tre undervisningsmodeller i matematik, traditionell undervisningsmodell, montessorimodellen och singaporemodellen. Fokus är på matematikundervisning i årskurs 1-3, svensk skola. Studien omfattar dels en mindre litteraturstudie, dels en intervjustudie med tre lärare som arbetar enligt de tre modellerna. Jag utgår från ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande, undervisning och kunskap. Analyserna baseras på en riktad kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet visar på för och nackdelar med de tre undervisningsmodellerna och hur väl de uppfyller kraven enligt tesen för en framgångsrik undervisning. I resultatet tydliggörs genom lärarnas utsagor problematiken med de olika undervisningsmodellerna.

Language: Swedish

Published: Karlstad, Sweden, 2022

Abstract/Notes: Undersökningen fokuserar på musikundervisning inom Montessori- och Waldorf pedagogiska ramar. Undersökningen syftar till att skapa förståelse för hur musikens roll i utbildning uppfattas inom dessa ramar och hur dessa uppfattningar förverkligas i musikundervisningen ur ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv grundat i Gadamer, Heidegger och Gallagher. För att nå kunskap har det genomförts två kvalitativa intervjuer; en med en specialist i Montessoripedagogik och en med en specialist i Waldorfpedagogik. Båda intervjupersonerna, Signert (Montessori) och Seiger (Waldorf), har arbetat länge inom olika kontexter och roller som exempelvis lärare, lärarutbildare och föreläsare. Undersökningsresultatet visar att musiken förstås som ett viktigt ämne som borde värderas lika högt som andra inom utbildning. Den hermeneutiska analysen av intervjuerna belyser hur särskilda pedagogiska tankar förverkligas i undervisning genom exempelvis val av innehåll, användning av utrustning som till exempel musikinstrument och skapande av relationer. Denna kunskap om delar och särskilda aspekter av dessa pedagogiska inriktningar, som exempelvis de verktyg som används eller specifika arbetssätt, kan bidra till bättre förståelse för musikens roll inom pedagogikens helhet.

Language: Swedish

Published: Växjö, Sweden, 2022