Language: English

Published: New York, New York: Teachers College Press, 2022

ISBN: 978-0-8077-6668-2

Abstract/Notes: This chapter provides an overview of a sociohistorical perspective for the design of school buildings in the USA. Underscoring this overview are questions about how educational practice and research can provide insight to the interior spatial design of these buildings. To ground the concepts about education, practice, and interior spatial design of learning environments, Montessori, Central Park East Public School and Big Picture Learning Australia are proposed as exemplary educational programs. By providing these international educational programs, this chapter showcases how and why the design of schools can be imagined. To buttress the ideas promoted by these educational programs, Optimal Learning Theory (Csikszentmihalyi in, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Harper and Row, 1990), Situated Learning theory (Lave and Wenger in, Situated learning, Cambridge University Press, 1991), and Osmond’s Theory (Doubleday, 1966) on seating arrangements, sociopetal, and sociofugal are introduced. Building on theory and practice in the field of education and environmental psychology, this chapter provides recommendations for crafting the physical environment to encourage learning.

Language: English

Published: Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023

ISBN: 978-981-19874-9-6

Abstract/Notes: М. Монтессорі розробила методику виховання дітей трудящих у «Будинку дитини» в інтересах панівних класів, що передбачає організацію життя дітей , сенсорне виховання їх, підготовку до праці, виховання дисциплінованості, релігійності. Особливе місце відводить вона розвитку органів чуття, тренуванню дотику, дрібних м’язів рук, зору дитини на спеціально розробленому нею дидактичному матеріалі. Нині її методи широко використовуються в різних країнах світу, зокрема в Україні.

Language: Ukrainian

Published: Kyiv, Ukraine: Каравела [Caravel], 2019

Edition: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 978-966-2229-67-7

Language: English

Published: London: Montessori Society, 1914

Abstract/Notes: The case considered in this chapter is that of the Little Commonwealth, an innovative institution for delinquent and troubled youth that was established in Dorset in England in 1913. It was characterised by a form of self-government in which the inmates, or “citizens”, as they were referred to, enacted their own laws, executed them and punished offenders. It was also characterised by a commitment to the redeeming power of labour and by its adaptation of an approach developed in the United States, which drew upon elements of practice that first emerged in Europe. A brief account of the organization’s genesis is provided together with the career of its superintendent, Homer Lane. The social organization of the Little Commonwealth is then outlined along with a narrative account of its demise. Trying to capture the organizational culture of the Little Commonwealth is difficult, as the sources concentrate only on Lane and one of his colleagues. Given the commitment to self-government, it is ironic that the voices of the citizens are rarely heard and their perception of the organization is almost entirely absent. The second part of the chapter consists of a neo-Weberian argument for perceiving the Little Commonwealth as an organization dominated by paternalistic charismatic authority. As such it was likely to find organizational learning difficult and, on probabilistic grounds, it was more likely to disappear than survive. Probabilities aside, the traces of the Little Commonwealth that survived are mapped and some grounds are adduced for the reasons why Lane remains a potent symbol of a child-centred innovation in a hostile environment.

Language: English

Published: Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008

ISBN: 978-3-531-91125-0

Series: Organisation und Pädagogik , 5

Language: Italian

Published: Torino, Italy: Paravia, 1930

Abstract/Notes: Maybanke Anderson initiated social reforms, which have improved the lives of countless women and children in Australia. If this were the United States, by now there would have been a Hollywood feature film about Maybanke Anderson, no doubt with Meryl Streep playing the lead role. But this is Australia, so when women vote on election day they do so without knowing that at the time of Federation Maybanke's strategic intervention opened the door for Australian women to be able to vote in the new Commonwealth, nearly three decades earlier than was possible for women in the United Kingdom, for example. But votes for women was only one of the social reforms for which we can thank Maybanke Anderson, as documented in the 1997 biography by Jan Roberts.

Language: English

Published: Sydney, Australia: Sydney Community Foundation, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-646-93863-9

Series: The Maybanke Lecture

Language: English

Published: North Adelaide, Australia: Kindergarten Union of South Australia, 1975

ISBN: 978-0-9598450-0-6

Abstract/Notes: In Montessori classrooms writing is taught using a pedagogy that lays claim to more than a century of practice. In the early 20th century Maria Montessori analysed the process of learning to write for the benefit of street children too young to be at school but who showed interest in writing. Montessori designed a repertoire of lessons and activities that offered the children two separate but parallel developmental pathways, one mechanical and one intellectual. The mechanical pathway had two elements: learning how to hold and control a pencil, and (for alphabetic writing) learning to distinguish individual sounds in the stream of spoken language and to match the sounds with graphic signs. The intellectual pathway also had two elements: learning to use graphic signs to (re)compose the sounds of the language into words, and learning to organise words into written discourse. When the children engaged with Montessori’s lessons and activities, they appeared to be teaching themselves to write. Because this same pedagogy is still in use today, it provides a rare opportunity to investigate an enduring educational practice through which children for more than a hundred years and in more than a hundred countries have become writers.

Language: English

Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 2020

ISBN: 978-0-367-89375-0 978-0-367-89373-6 0-367-89375-4 0-367-89373-8

Abstract/Notes: Previously published in 1970 as part of "Festschrift zum 100 [hundertsten] Geburtstag von Maria Montessori", edited by Gernot Scheid.

Language: German

Published: Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Deutsche Montessori Gesellschaft, 1977