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From Inspired Teaching to Effective Knowledge Work and Back Again: A Report on Peter Drucker's Schoolmistress and What She Can Teach Us About the Management and Education of Knowledge Workers

Available from: Emerald Insight

Publication: Management Decision, vol. 48, no. 4

Pages: 475-484

Eugenie Schwarzwald - Biographic sources, Knowledge management, Leadership, Maria Montessori - Influence, Peter Drucker - Philosophy, Schwarzwald School (Vienna)

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Abstract/Notes: The emerging knowledge societies will – besides many other dramatic changes – see a teaching revolution. This paper seeks to propose quality standards for this new type of teaching. The paper argues that Peter Drucker experienced much of what he later came to call the principles of self management and effective knowledge work as a boy aged nine or ten at the Schwarzwald School – an utterly exceptional, progressive elementary school in Vienna. Given these astonishing similarities, this school's avant‐garde approach to teaching might just provide some insights into what effective teaching for a future knowledge society should be like. The paper is based to a large extent on accounts by and about the almost forgotten school's owner‐manager Eugenie Schwarzwald, some of which were made available only recently in the course of several biographical research projects dealing with this revolutionary pedagogue and social entrepreneur. Firstly, the paper identifies similarities between the teaching practice at Eugenie Schwarzwald's schools, her approach to leadership on the one hand, and Drucker's principles of effective management and knowledge work on the other. Secondly, it concludes that in a knowledge society both effective management and teaching need to be extensively individualised services – much more than in an industrial mass society. Combined, Schwarzwald's practice and Drucker's teachings challenge some seemingly up‐to‐date practices in both higher education and corporate personnel development, and helps in understanding what actually produces effective personal learning for the rapidly changing knowledge economies of the twenty‐first century. The paper introduces selective aspects of progressive education to the field of management.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1108/00251741011041292

ISSN: 0025-1747

Book Section

Utopia della conoscenza. Un’utopia forte per saperi deboli? [Utopia of knowledge: A strong utopia for weak knowledge?]

Book Title: L'Utopia Montessoriana: Pace, Diritti, Libertà, Ambiente [Montessorian Utopia: Peace, Rights, Freedom, Environment]

Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Peace education

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Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5

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The Effectiviness of Montessori Education Method in the Acquisition of Concept of Geometrical Shapes

Available from: ScienceDirect

Publication: Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1

Pages: 1163-1166

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Abstract/Notes: Montessori metod is an education program which is comed about and developed spontaneously and intends to gives children an opportunity to be able to improve themselves and to have freedom of movement and activity in a prepaned environment. The materials planned specially for Montessori method are being used to acquire the concept of geometrical shapes. In this regard, the effectiveress of Montessori Education and the Minister of Education of preschool curriculum has been evaluated on the acquisition of geometrical shapes concepts to 4-5 year-old children in preschool. It has been concluded that the acquisition of geometrical shapes concept of children who received Montessori Education is much more successful than the children who received traditional education.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.209

ISSN: 1877-0428

Master's Thesis

Moral Development and the Acquisition of Conservation in Montessori Children

Child development, Montessori method of education

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Language: English

Published: Toronto, Canada, 1970

Master's Thesis

Acquisition of English as a Second Language for Hispanic Immigrant Adults with Low Academic and Socioeconomic Levels in the United States of America Through a Proposed Montessori Approach / Adquisición del Inglés como Segunda Lengua en Adultos Hispanos Inmigrantes con Bajo Nivel Académico y Socioeconómico en Estados Unidos de América: Proponiendo un Enfoque Montessori

Available from: American Montessori Society

Adult education, Americas, Immigrants, Language acquisition, Language development, Montessori method of education, North America, United States of America

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Language: English

Published: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, 2017

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Acquisition de la générosité, préparation à la vie sociale, la classe, milieu éducatif, l'oeuvre de Maria Montessori

Publication: École des Parents, no. 2

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Language: French

ISSN: 0424-2238

Archival Material Or Collection

Box 12, Folder 7 - Other Authors and Uncredited Manuscript Fragments, n.d. - "Learning through Living or the Acquisition of Culture Through Spontaneous Work"

Available from: Seattle University

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

Archival Material Or Collection

Box 7, Folder 8 - Manuscripts, ca. 1921-ca.1966 - "Acquisitions during the Sensitive Periods"

Available from: Seattle University

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

Master's Thesis

Okulöncesi eğitim kurumlarında Montessori ve geleneksel öğretim yöntemleri alan çocukların sayı kavramını kazanma davranışlarının karşılaştırılması [Comparison of the number concept acquisition behaviors of children who take Montessori and traditional teaching methods in preschool education institutions]

Available from: Selçuk University (Turkey)

Asia, Comparative education, Middle East, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Turkey, Western Asia

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Abstract/Notes: Yıllardır, eğitimciler ve öğretmenler, her seviyedeki çocuğu eğitme adına en etkili öğretim yöntemini araştırmaktadırlar. Bu araştırmanın amacını, okulöncesi eğitim kurumlarına devam eden 4-5 yaş çocuklarına sayı kavramını kazandırmada Montessori Öğretim Yöntemi ve Geleneksel Öğretim yöntemlerinin etkinliğini karşılaştırmak oluşturmuştur. Bu amaçla, Selçuk Üniversitesi Mesleki Eğitim Fakültesi'ne bağlı İhsan Doğramacı Uygulama Anaokulu'na devam eden 4-5 yaş çocuklarına Montessori Öğretim Yöntemi ve Geleneksel Öğretim Yöntemi ile ?Sayı Kavramı? eğitimi verilerek, hangi yöntemin daha etkili olduğu araştırılmıştır. Araştırma deneysel olarak planlanmıştır. Çocuklardan 20 tanesi 4 yaş (10 tanesi deney grubu, 10 tanesi kontrol grubu) 20 tanesi de 5 yaş (10 tanesi deney grubu, 10 tanesi kontrol grubu) olmak üzere, toplam 40 çocuk çalışma grubunu oluşturmuştur. Araştırmanın başlangıç düzeyinde gerek deney, gerekse kontrol grubuna ön test uygulanarak her iki grubun birbirine denk olduğu sonucu elde edilmiştir. Başlangıç düzeyinin tespitinden sonra 6 haftalık bir süreçte deney grubuna Montessori Eğitim Yöntemine uygun eğitim verilirken, kontrol grubuna da Geleneksel Öğretim Yöntemi ile eğitim verilmiştir. Verilen her iki eğitimin sonunda gruplara son test uygulanmıştır. Verilerin analizinde SPSS programının 15.0 versiyonu kullanılmıştır. Analiz yöntemlerinden Mann-Whitney U testi yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonunda deney grubu ile kontrol grubu arasında deney grubu lehine anlamlı bir fark olduğu tespit edilmiştir. / For decades, researchers and teachers have investigated the most effective teaching methods in educating children at every levels. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of Montessori and Traditional Teaching Methods to make the pre-schoolers acquire mathematical concept. Therefore, the pre-schoolers attending Ihsan Dogramaci Practising Preschool under the title of Faculty of Vocational Education of Selcuk University are taught ?Mathematical Concept? via Montessori and Traditional Teaching Methods to investigate the effectiveness of them. The study is planned as an experimental one. The sample is 20 for 4 years old (10 for experimental and 10 for control groups) and 20 for 5 years old ((10 for experimental and 10 for control groups), totally 40. At the beginning of the research, 40 preschoolers are given pre-test to display the groups are equal to each other. Following pre-test, the experimental group is taught by Montessori while the control group is taught by Traditional Teaching Methods. Mann-Whitney U test Statistical under the title of Pogramming for Social Sciences SPSS 15.0 version is practised to analyze the data. At the end of the trainning, both of the groups are given post test to analyze the outcomes of the methods. At the end of the research, it shows that there is significant differences between experimental and control groups for experimental one.

Language: Turkish

Published: Konya, Turkey, 2008

Master's Thesis (Action Research Report)

Language Acquisition: Effectiveness of Collaboration on Teacher Practices and Beliefs

Available from: St. Catherine University

Action research

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Abstract/Notes: The effectiveness and challenges of teacher collaboration as a tool to drive teaching outcomes has been observed in various educational settings. This research project was designed to answer the question, “Would collaboratively creating a Useful Words Handbook for teachers increase the number of language teaching opportunities that could occur during the day?” This action research project, conducted in a Montessori preschool setting, focused on two classroom teachers who educate children between the ages of two and three. Three intervals were identified for data collection. Four weeks of collaboration on the Useful Words Handbook began after two weeks of baseline data collection, during which the frequency of language teaching opportunities were recorded. A weekly topic was presented to the teachers, who provided feedback the following week, in addition to ideas for improving the topic for the handbook. Collaboration involved creating an introduction and four topics about teaching useful phrases to early language learners. The data showed a positive correlation between collaboration and an increase in the number of teaching language opportunities that occur during the day. The data also show that while it is possible to make short-term changes in the classroom through collaboration, changing teacher beliefs about teaching language and collaboration remain a challenge that is characteristic of the teacher collaboration process. Investigating strategies to increase awareness about teaching language should continue.

Language: English

Published: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2013

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