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Hartford Early Childhood Program, Hartford, Connecticut: An Urban Public School System's Large-Scale Approach Toward Restructuring Early Childhood Education. Model Programs - Childhood Education
Available from: ERIC
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Abstract/Notes: The Hartford Early Childhood Program involves more than 4,500 children from 4 years old to first grade level in over 200 classrooms. Classrooms are designed to offer children an environment that encourages them to learn independently. Ideas have been borrowed from the Montessori approach and the British Infant Schools and fitted to the needs of the Hartford school district's urban students. The program philosophy embodies new approaches that can be used in old school buildings such as formal education beginning at 3 years, mixed-age "family" grouping, interest centers, and emphasis on intrinsic motivation toward personel success. Future plans call for extension of the program to all public school classes in grades K through 2. Sources of more detailed information are provided for this program, specifically, and for Model Programs Childhood Education, in general. (Author/WY)
Language: English
Published: Palo Alto, California, 1970
Article
The Mathematical Mind [Birth to Three, The Children's House Child, The Early Primary Child, The Upper Primary Child, The Adolescent]
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 22
Date: Jun 2001
Pages: 9–12, 14
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Language: English
Article
Let the Child Teach Himself: Let the Child Teach Himself Let the Child Teach Himself
Publication: New York Times (New York, New York)
Date: May 16, 1965
Pages: Magazine - 34-35, 42, 44, 47, 49-50
Americas, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0362-4331
Article
Links Between Communication Patterns in Mother-Child, Father-Child, and Child-Peer Interactions and Children's Social Status
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Child Development, vol. 66, no. 1
Date: 1995
Pages: 255-271
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Abstract/Notes: In this study, we examined communication in the family and peer systems in relation to children's sociometric status. Codes measured turn-taking skills and utterance types for 43 children (ages 24-60 months) with mothers, fathers, and peers. Communication differences in the family and peer systems were strongest for popular versus rejected status children and their parents, but differences were also found for controversial and neglected status children and their parents. Rejected status children demonstrated turn-taking styles that included irrelevant turns, interruptions, simultaneous talking, and noncontingent responding. Parents of rejected children used higher proportions of requests than parents of popular children but failed to allow their children time to respond to the requests. Popular status children were more likely to alternate turns, provide explanations to peers, and participate in episodes of cohesive discourse. Interaction patterns were examined for potential mechanisms of transfer between family and peer systems.
Language: English
DOI: 10.2307/1131204
ISSN: 0009-3920
Article
Transforming theories of childhood and early childhood education: Child study and the empirical assault on Froebelian rationalism
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, vol. 45, no. 4
Date: 2009
Pages: 585-604
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Abstract/Notes: This article considers the possibility that one of the defining characteristics of the New Education, as it related to children in their early years, was its epistemological break with rationalist forms of knowledge and its embrace of empiricism and positivism. It considers, briefly, social theories that identify a similar process at a societal level before examining some of the polemics directed against theories of education based on rational forms of knowledge and, in particular, Froebel’s system. This theme is then pursued through a detailed consideration of the child study movement in England and its promotion of an empiricist project concerned with the production of knowledge about the child which drew upon the emergent fields of physiology, educational psychology, education and statistics. It is argued that child study helped to create the conditions for these sciences to distinguish themselves from the older philosophical currents from which they emerged. Consideration is then paid to how these transformations reacted on child study and on the Froebel movement. The article concludes that a break did indeed occur in the ways in which education was legitimised and that through the arrival of a new empirically based, scientific approach it became more closely aligned to reforming impulses. Nevertheless, the old philosophical, metaphysical foundations were not vanquished as in a violent rupture but were articulated in a new dialectical synthesis.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/00309230903100965
ISSN: 0030-9230, 1477-674X
Article
Parent Enrollment at Model Children's House [Powder Mill Children's House, Beltsville, Maryland]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 11, no. 6
Date: Nov 1990
Pages: 1, 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 15, Folder 18 - Notes, ca. 1929-1948 - "Characteristics of Normalized Child"; "Psychology of the Child"; [Exercise Book "Numbers"]
Available from: Seattle University
Date: ca.1929-1948
Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings
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Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections
Article
[Conference of Childcare in Kansai Region: A Childcare Community in Kansai Area and an Idea of Montessori Education]
Publication: Fujin to Kodomo [Woman and Child], vol. 15, no. 4
Date: 1915
Pages: 151-158
Asia, Conferences, East Asia, Japan, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: Japanese
Book
Listening to God with Children: The Montessori Method Applied to the Catechesis of Children
Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education, Religious education
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Language: English
Published: Loveland, Ohio: Treehaus Communications, 2000
Edition: [2nd ed.]
ISBN: 1-886510-14-8 978-1-886510-14-2
Article
Montessoribarn är de värsta barnen vi kan få hit [Montessori children are the worst children we can get here]
Publication: Montessori-tidningen (Svenska montessoriförbundet), no. 3
Date: 2000
Pages: 26
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Language: Swedish
ISSN: 1103-8101