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Article
Exploring Fantasy in Children's Literature
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 84
Date: Jul 2007
Pages: 40–41
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Article
The Magic School Bus Dilemma: How Fantasy Affects Children’s Learning from Stories
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 210
Date: Oct 1, 2021
Pages: Article 105212
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Fantasy in children
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Abstract/Notes: Although children’s books often include fantasy, research suggests that children do not learn as well from fantastical stories as from realistic ones. The current studies investigated whether the type of fantasy matters, in effect testing two possible mechanisms for fantasy’s interference. Across two studies, 110 5-year-olds were read different types of fantastical stories containing a problem and then were asked to solve an analogous problem in a real lab setting. Children who were read a minimally fantastical version of the story, in which the story occurred on another planet “that looked just like Earth,” were no more likely to transfer the solution than children who heard a story that was slightly more fantastical in that the story occurred on another planet and that planet looked different from Earth (e.g., orange grass, a green sky). In contrast, significantly higher rates of learning were observed when the story contained those elements and two physically impossible events (e.g., walking through walls). Furthermore, this improvement was obtained only when the impossible events preceded, and not when they followed, the educational content. Although fantasy may sometimes detract from learning (as other research has shown), these new studies suggest that minimal fantasy does not and that particular types of fantasy may even increase learning. We propose that the mechanism for this may be that a small dose of impossible events induces deeper processing of the subsequent events in the story.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105212
ISSN: 0022-0965
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
Article
Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 50, no. 3
Date: 2016
Pages: 332-350
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Abstract/Notes: This article draws on Martha Nussbaum's distinction between basic, internal, and external (or combined) capacities to better specify possible locations for children's ‘incapacity’ for autonomy. I then examine Maria Montessori's work on what she calls ‘normalization’, which involves a release of children's capacities for autonomy and self-governance made possible by being provided with the right kind of environment. Using Montessori, I argue that, in contrast to many ordinary and philosophical assumptions, children's incapacities for autonomy are best understood as consequences of an absence of external conditions necessary for children to exercise capacities they already have internally, rather than intrinsic limitations based on their stage of life. In a closing section, I show how Montessori proposes a model wherein both children and adults have autonomy, power, and responsibility, but over different spheres, and suggest implications of these differences for who has responsibility for establishing the conditions under which children can flourish.
Language: English
ISSN: 1467-9752
Article
Awareness for Children's Songs of Young Children, Their Teacher's and Parents and Component Analysis of Their Favorite Children's Songs / 유아,교사,학부모의 동요에 대한 인지수준과 구성요소 분석
Available from: RISS
Publication: Montessori교육연구 [Montessori Education Research], vol. 14, no. 2
Date: 2009
Pages: 79-104
Asia, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention-deficit-disordered children, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, East Asia, Montessori method of education, South Korea
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Abstract/Notes: In order to know general awareness for children's song among preschoolers, their teachers and parents the questionary paper survey was performed against 212 of kindergarteners, 63 of their teachers and 197 of their parents. At the sametime their favorite children's songs were collected among the prepared lists of children's songs and selected about 10 children's songs for each group, in order. Also, those selected children's songs were analyzed their musical elements, too. The under 4 year old and female children more favorited the singing children's songs everyday than the 5 year old and male. Thachers replied that they selected the proper children's songs in the basic of the topics of usual daily life and children's interests. Also, parents believed that children's songs is very important to develop their children's musicality. Finally, the favorite children's songs were analyzed as followings the major beat was 4/4, the major tonality was C major, the major form and leongth were 8-34 measures, and the major rhythm was the replicated, symcopated and nimbled one. / 본 연구에서는 유아·교사·학부모의 동요에 관한 인지수준과 선호하는 동요의 유형은 어떠한지 또한 유아들이 선호하는 동요의 음악적 구성요소는 어떠한지에 대해 알아보았다. 연구의 대상은 국·공·사립유치원의 유아 212명, 교사 63명 및 학부모 197명이다. 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 유아·교사·학부모의 동요에 관한 인지수준은 유아·교사·학부모 모두가 동요를 좋아하고 동요부르기가 음악성 발달에 매우 중요한 것으로 인식하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 유아·교사·학부모가 선호하는 동요의 유형은 유아는 동물 또는 가족과 관련된 창작동요를 교사는 동물과 식물에 관련된 창작동요제곡과 인터넷동요를 학부모는 식물과 사랑, 기본생활습관에 관련된 창작동요와 인터넷동요를 선호하였다. 결과적으로 유아·교사·학부모의 선호하는 동요는 크게 차이는 없지만 유아들이 선호하는 동요는 학부모의 선호도 보다는 교사가 선호하는 동요와 일치도가 높아 학부모보다는 교사의 영향을 더 받는 것으로 판단되었다. 셋째, 유아들이 선호하는 동요의 악곡의 특징은 노래 마지막 부분에 강세가 있거나 반복적인 리듬과 노랫말에 엄마, 아빠, 아기로 표현된 가족과 연관된 노래와 동물을 의인화한 노래 또는 동물의 의성어를 표현한 노래를 좋아하는 것으로 나타났다.
Language: Korean
ISSN: 1226-9417
Article
What If Our Children Knew of Bali? A Teacher Reflects on a Culture in Which Children Are Respected
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 2, no. 1
Date: Feb 1994
Pages: 15–16
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
What's Eating Our Children: Eating Disorders in Young Children
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 1, no. 5
Date: Oct 1993
Pages: 8–9
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Abstract/Notes: An interview with Darlene M. Atkins
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Primary Children [Writings by children in 9-12 class]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 1989
Pages: 6–7
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Language: English
Book
Talent for the future: social and personality development of gifted children: Proceedings of the Ninth world conference on gifted and talented children
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Language: English
Published: Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Co., 1992
ISBN: 90-232-2656-9
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 11, Folder 50 - Manuscript Fragments, n.d. - "The New Children - A Miracle in Education / "The New Children - or - New Method"
Available from: Seattle University
Date: n.d.
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