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The Origin and Development of Democracy in Education in Time Perspective
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Abstract/Notes: In this study the origin and development of democracy in education through the ages is traced in terms of a historico-educational examination of the ideas and practices of about ten educationists. The new outcomesbased education and learning approach is also examined. The educationists are inter alia: (1) Plato (427-347 BC); (2) Marcus Fabius Quintilian (35-100 AD); (3) Aurelius Augustine (354-430 AD); (4) Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536 AD); (5) John Amos Comenius (1592-1670); (6) John Locke (1632-1704); (7) Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); (8) Maria Montessori (1870-1952); (9) John Dewey (1859-1952); (10) Paulo Freire (1912- ). It was found that democracy in educational theory and practice was addressed, established and developed since ancient times (the ancient Greeks) right up to the present. Finally, the educational philosophy and practices of these educationists as well the outcomes-based educational approach in South Africa are examined in terms of their essential democratic features and recommendations are made regarding the present education system in South Africa.
Language: English
Published: Pretoria, South Africa, 2000
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India, Democracy and Education: A Study of the Work of the Birla Education Trust
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Language: English
Published: Bombay, India: Orient Longmans, 1955
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Problemi educativi della democrazia moderna [Educational problems of modern democracy]
Book Title: L'educazione alla socialità nella pedagogia contemporanea [Education to sociality in contemporary pedagogy]
Pages: 23-33
Conferences, National Study Conference (4th, Venice, Italy, 12-14 October 1956)
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Abstract/Notes: Speech delivered by author on October 12, 1956 at the 4th National Study Conference (Venice, Italy).
Language: Italian
Published: Roma, Italy: Vita dell'infanzia, 1957
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Thoughts on Freedom and Democracy in the Montessori Environment
Book Title: The Directory of Democratic Education
Pages: 26-31
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Language: English
Published: Roslyn Heights, New York: Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2007
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 978-0-9745252-2-8
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Preschool Democracy: Ideas from Montessori
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Abstract/Notes: Maria Montessori believed that preschool children were capable of practicing an elementary form of democracy, could direct their own learning and discipline themselves, and were able to thoughtfully control their behavior for the benefit of the group. She believed also that it was necessary to prepare the environment so that democracy would begin to evolve naturally. Toward this end Montessori provided multi-age grouping, limited amounts of materials, a low pupil/teacher ratio, and real tools rather than toys. She encouraged self-discipline by providing variety in learning activities and materials and, for younger students, "exercises in practical life" to promote a feeling of security. Teachers who value the qualities promoted by the Montessori approach and who wish to promote them in their classrooms must be willing to be facilitators or collaborators rather than directive teachers and must trust children to work with real materials in caring for the room, model appropriate
Language: English
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Education and Democracy [Public Lecture, Paris 1949]
Book Title: The Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches and Writings
Pages: 99-103
Europe, France, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Western Europe
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2016 [1979]
ISBN: 978-90-79506-34-7
Series: Montessori Series , 7
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Box 16, Folder 11 - Notes, ca. 1929-1948 - "Maths" [Decimals; Arithmetic; Education for Democracy; Fractions; Two Points;Dominated by History; S. Periods in Development; Language; Seasonal Materials; Study of Numbers, Triangles; Teaching Religion; Geography, Geometry, Money Sums, Literature; Multiplication; Fractions, Teaching Notes; Mathematics; Groups]
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
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Box 16, Folder 12 - Notes, ca. 1929-1948 - "Mathematics" [Decimals; Arithmetic; Education for Democracy; Fractions; Two Points;Dominated by History; S. Periods in Development; Language; Seasonal Materials; Study of Numbers, Triangles; Teaching Religion; Geography, Geometry, Money Sums, Literature; Multiplication; Fractions, Teaching Notes; Mathematics; Groups]
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
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Miller's Free School Study Holds Lessons [Review of Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy after the 1960s, by Ron Miller]
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 15, no. 1
Date: Fall 2002
Pages: 28
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Dialogue and Democracy, Community and Capacity: Lessons for Conflict Resolution Education from Montessori, Dewey, and Freire
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Conflict Resolution Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2
Date: 2005
Pages: 185-202