Quick Search
For faster results please use our Quick Search engine.

Advanced Search

Search across titles, abstracts, authors, and keywords.
Advanced Search Guide.

499 results

Report

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

See More

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

Pages: 9–12, 14

See More

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)

Pages: Magazine - 34-35, 42, 44, 47, 49-50

Americas, North America, United States of America

See More

Language: English

ISSN: 0362-4331

Article

✓ Peer Reviewed

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

Pages: 255-271

See More

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

✓ Peer Reviewed

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

Pages: 585-604

Friedrich Fröbel, Positivism

See More

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

Pages: 1, 4

See More

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

Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings

See More

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

Pages: 151-158

Asia, Conferences, East Asia, Japan, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.

See More

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

See More

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

Pages: 26

See More

Language: Swedish

ISSN: 1103-8101

Advanced Search