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Children's Well-Being and Teachers' Benevolence as the Road to Higher Performance?: Cognitive Neuroscience and Montessori in Preschools
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Véronique Degraef (Author) , Emmanuelle Lenel (Author) , Nicolas Marquis (Author) , Nicolas Marquis (Editor)
Book Title: Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe: The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
Pages: 63-78
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Abstract/Notes: There is now a broad international consensus that investing in early childhood education and care represents the highest “return on investment” in terms of economic and social development. The pursuit of the dual objective of efficiency and equity has resulted in a reorientation of preschool curricula towards preparation for compulsory schooling, emphasizing the acquisition of the “fundamentals” (reading, writing, and arithmetic) most useful for future academic success. The chapter offers first a comparative analysis of how this “schooling process” unfolded in French and Belgian nursery schools and in the Danish kindergarten. It attests to the persistence of specific cultural and political traditions relating to both the respective roles of the state and families in early childhood education, as well as of conceptions of childhood and relations between adults and children. Second, based on field research conducted in French-speaking Belgium, it discusses the idea that the search for children's well-being and performance at the same time creates tensions in the exercise of the teaching profession. It then shows that it is possible to understand the success of the discourse of cognitive neuroscience and so-called alternative pedagogical methods, including Montessori, because these discourses seem to propose a way to overcome these tensions.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-00-337720-7
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Education as a Discipline in India: Foundations and Histories
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Nidhi Gulati (Author) , Manish Jain (Author)
Book Title: Practising Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations
Pages: 21 p.
Asia, Comparative education, Education - History, United States of America, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: This chapter traces the historical trajectory of the discipline of education in India with a special focus on one of the foundations of education, i.e., psychology. It maps the emergence and shifts in the imagination, discourses, and practices of psychology as a foundation to understand how the contours of education, as a discipline, was being fashioned at various historical junctures in India in interactions with and influence on global discourses. The chapter uses various annual, quinquennial, commission, and committee report, syllabi and examination papers, research trends to trace and reconstruct the beginnings, continuities, and disjuncture at various points and across several sites. It draws attention to the interlinkages between the child study movement and education both globally and in India. It critically examines the deployment of categories/frameworks of deficit, ‘deprivation’ and developmentalism in the syllabus and researches to construct the ‘child’, to coalesce anxiety around the adjustment of the adolescent, and blame/mobilise the family in the projects to achieve and contribute to ‘social control’ and ‘discipline’. The chapter argues that psychology, with its paraphernalia of concepts and tools to measure and classify the children has brought more harm to education than contribute to removing the conditions that produce and reproduce ‘deficits’.
Language: English
Published: London, England: Routledge India, 2024
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 978-1-00-332942-8
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L’errore e il suo controllo [Error and its control]
Maria Montessori (Author) , Luigino Binanti (Editor)
Book Title: Pedagogia, epistemologia e didattica dell'errore
Pages: 127-133
Maria Montessori - Writings, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: Italian
Published: Soveria Mannelli, Italy: Rubbettino, 2001
ISBN: 978-88-498-0091-3
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La radice montessoriana del nuovo indirizzo
Massimo Baldacci (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia
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La scuola del bambino di Maria Montessori e la scuola a nuovo indirizzo di Ciari e Malaguzzi
Franco Frabboni (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia
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Maria Montessori: l’eredità montessoriana e le sfi de della scuola dell’infanzia di oggi
Miguel Zabalza (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia
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La lezione di Maria Montessori: una scommessa per il futuro
Battista Quinto Borghi (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia
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Mente assorbente e capacitazione
Umberto Margiotta (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia
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La forza creativa della mente: Montessori e Dewey
Teodora Pezzano (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia
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Maria Montessori e le scienze della vita
Franca Pinto Minerva (Author) , Franco Frabboni (Editor) , Miguel Zabalza (Editor) , Massimo Baldacci (Editor)
Book Title: Maria Montessori e la scuola d'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo [Maria Montessori and the new direction of nursery school]
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori schools
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Language: Italian
Published: Bergamo, Italy: Zeroseiup, 2015
ISBN: 978-88-99338-07-7 88-99338-07-8
Series: Culture e saperi dell'infanzia