For faster results please use our Quick Search engine.
Advanced Search
Search across titles, abstracts, authors, and keywords.
Advanced Search Guide.
Article
Does Preschool Curriculum Make a Difference in Primary School Performance: Insights into the Variety of Preschool Activities and Their Effects on School Achievement and Behaviour in the Caribbean Island of Trinidad; Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal evidence
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Early Child Development and Care, vol. 103, no. 1
Date: 1994
Pages: 27-42
Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago
See More
Abstract/Notes: Preschool education is an important and much studied topic in developed countries, and of growing importance in the third world. Studies exploring preschool experience have noted positive effects when comparing children with access to preschool versus children without access, and effects of particular curriculum approaches over the length of primary schooling. This study adopts a focused sample, cross‐sectional design to explore the types of preschool experience available (denoted by types of preschool activities which equate broadly to curriculum approaches) and whether variation in preschool experience affects core curriculum (English, science, mathematics) performance and classroom behaviours throughout the years of primary schooling in Trinidad and when children complete their primary education in the form of a national ‘common entrance examination’ for entry into a stratified secondary school system. Results show that a large majority of the sampled children attended preschool and that most of the preschool experience was traditional and teacher centred. Neither child centred or teacher centred preschool activities affected academic performance in the core subjects during the primary school years or at the end of their primary school career. Type of preschool activity did affect teacher perception of behaviour in class. Child centred experience facilitated a social/peer orientation in children. High levels of teacher centred experience detracted from later relationships with teacher. Results were confounded by social class, with middle class children having most access to (the limited amount available) child centred preschool experience and performing at the highest academic and behavioural levels in the classroom although in limited numbers. The discussion questions the appropriacy of the various preschool activities for pupils within a cultural orientation of traditional upbringing and primary schooling practices.
Language: English
ISSN: 0300-4430, 1476-8275
Article
Mr. Kahn Goes to Australia: Montessori Week–Sydney, Australia, November 1986
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 12, no. 1
Date: 1986
Pages: 96–97
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, Oceania
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
School Focus: Treetops Montessori School [Darlington, Western Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 2002
Pages: 17–18
See More
Language: English
Article
School Focus: Plenty Valley Montessori School [Diamond Creek, Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 2001
Pages: 9–10
See More
Language: English
Article
School Focus: Farmhouse Montessori School [North Balgowlah, Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: Dec 2004
Pages: 19
See More
Language: English
Article
To Prosper and Grow: A History of Elonera School, Willogong's First Primary School [Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 1988
Pages: 9
See More
Language: English
Article
Program Profiles [Clissold School, Chicago, Illinois; Bonneville Elementary School, Pocatello, Idaho; Reading Community School, Reading, Ohio]
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 1, no. 2
Date: Winter 1989
Pages: 9
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
USA: Montessori-Pädagogik in der Grundschule: ein portrait der Butler School in Darnestown, Maryland, USA [USA: Montessori Education in Elementary School: a portrait of the Butler School in Darnestown, Maryland, USA]
Publication: Montessori: Zeitschrift für Montessori-Pädagogik, vol. 38, no. 3
Date: 2000
Pages: 150-163
Americas, Montessori method of education, North America, United States of America
See More
Language: German
ISSN: 0944-2537
Article
A Class of Special Character [Montessori school-within-a-school, Arthur Street School, Dunedin]
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 4
Date: Dec 1996
Pages: 9
See More
Language: English
Article
Schoolakties - schoolakties - schoolakties
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Montessori Opvoeding, no. 3
Date: Jun 1970
Pages: 50-52
Nederlandse Montessori Vereniging
See More
Language: Dutch