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ONEO [Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity] Programs Benefit Reservation
Publication: Navajo Times, vol. 16, no. 36
Date: Sep 4, 1975
Pages: B20-B21
Americas, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Montessori schools, Navajo children, North America, Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity (U.S.), United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0470-510
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Accelerating the Mathematical Development of Young Navajo Children
Available from: Springer Link
Book Title: Rural Education Research in the United States: State of the Science and Emerging Directions
Pages: 145-165
Americas, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Mathematics education, Montessori method of education, Navajo children, North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: We describe a fulfilling 7-year relationship between educational practice and program evaluation at the STAR School, an Arizona public charter dedicated to providing excellent education for Navajo children in a rural, impoverished area. Previous literature had empirically identified Pre/K math and language skills as predictors of future school success. Therefore, a Montessori-based curriculum with trained teachers was implemented. It provided high quality preschool math education that was congruent with Navajo cultural values. Program evaluation and educators’ insights comprised a long-term collaboration that guided annual improvement of the program. Children’s data on growth in math, language, and social development are summarized for the most recent 3 years of the program, as are parental assessments of the school. Results indicate that this program has been highly successful with Pre and K students. They entered more than a year behind, on average, in math concepts and language. By the end of their Pre/K experience virtually all of the children were at or above grade level in math. We believe that our work underscores the value of creating long-term collaborative relationships between rural educators who are implementing promising educational practices and dedicated researchers who can offer beneficial empirical and theoretical perspectives.
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-42940-3 978-3-319-42938-0
Article
How the Stars Fell into the Sky: A Navajo Legend [book review]
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 27, no. 3
Date: Fall 2015
Pages: 62
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Abstract/Notes: A NAVAJO LEGEND By Jerrie Oughton Illustrated by Lisa Desimini Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books Paperback, $6.99 How the Stars Fell into the Sky is a simple retelling of a Navajo legend about the beginning of Earth, appropriate for Lower Elementary students.[...]his impatience leads him to fling the remaining stars indiscriminately into the sky, making a shamble of the First Woman's efforts, leaving the people "never knowing the reason for the confusion that would always dwell among them."
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Rock 'N Roll School: New York City's Acorn School is an Ingenius and Economical Use of Found Space
Available from: US Modernist Library
Publication: Architectural Forum, vol. 137, no. 4
Date: Nov 1972
Pages: 56-61
Americas, Architecture, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0003-8539, 2769-0024
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Il metodo Montessori per bambini in difficoltà sociali ed econimiche: I progetti di 'tenera mente-onlus' / El método Montessori para para niños con dificultades sociales y económicas: Los proyectos de "tierna mente - organización sin fines de lucro" / The Montessori method for children with social and economic difficulties: The projects of "Young Mind - A Non-Profit Organization"
Available from: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Publication: RELAdEI (Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Infantil), vol. 3, no. 3
Date: Dec 2014
Pages: 153-160
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Language: Italian
ISSN: 2255-0666
Article
Open for Business: Learning Economics Through Social Interaction in a Student-Operated Store
Publication: Journal of Social Studies Research, vol. 35, no. 1
Date: 2011
Pages: 39-55
Americas, Business education, Economics education, North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: This study examines teaching and learning economics and entrepreneurship through a student-run Montessori middle school store. By designing and managing a school store, students created a 'community of practice' to learn economics concepts in their daily environment. Questions guiding this study were: (a) How do students' social-interactions in a Montessori middle school student-operated business demonstrate economics content knowledge? (b) How do students' social-interactions in a Montessori middle school student-operated business demonstrate economics skills? (c) How do students' business roles in the store develop their understanding of economics principles? Findings indicate that: (1) student activities in the school store promoted learning through social interaction; (2) the type and number of business roles a student assumed created opportunities for economic learning; (3) student entrepreneurs expressed specific knowledge of economics concepts, and, (4) students' decision-making and ownership affected behavior. Additionally, features of Kohlberg's (1985) concept of Just Community supported the learning environment. This study can provide social studies teachers and teacher-educators with a model for learning economics (or social studies) concepts through a curricular-based student-run enterprise.
Language: English
ISSN: 0885-985X, 2352-2798
Article
Home Economics: Children, Consumption, and Montessori Education in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Understood Betsy
Available from: Project MUSE
Publication: Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3
Date: Fall 2007
Pages: 213-230
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Abstract/Notes: Targeted for young girls, Dorothy Canfield Fisher's 1917 novel, Understood Betsy, examines the overlap between Montessori schooling and economics, becoming a treatise on how specific educational approaches may be used to thwart new attitudes concerning consumption and childhood. Recognizing that American children early in the twentieth century were particularly vulnerable in a cultural moment of crass materialism, Canfield Fisher imagined a way to employ Montessori-based schooling to redirect the orientation of children before they became co-opted by the consumer culture. In the novel, Canfield Fisher links fiscal responsibility to physical and mental health, calling for a pattern of spending that benefits both the individual and the community.
Language: English
ISSN: 1553-1201
Article
Modular Buildings: An Economical Alternative
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 2, no. 4
Date: Aug 1994
Pages: 14–16
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Racial and Economic Diversity in U.S. Public Montessori Schools
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: 2016
Pages: 15-34
African American community, African Americans, Americas, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North America, Public Montessori, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: As public Montessori schools rapidly expand through the United States, the question then arises: What population of students do the schools serve? This study presents a new empirical data set examining the racial and economic diversity of 300 whole-school, public Montessori programs open in 2012–2013, where the entire school uses the Montessori Method. While school-choice scholars are concerned that choice programs like Montessori lead to greater student segregation by race and social class, this study finds a variety of outcomes for public Montessori. Public Montessori as a sector has strengths in student racial and socioeconomic diversity, but it also has diversity challenges, particularly among Montessori charters. The study concludes with recommended strategies for public Montessori schools to enroll a racially and economically diverse student body.
Language: English
ISSN: 2378-3923
Article
Economic and Industrial Renaissance of Colombia
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Bulletin of the Pan American Union, vol. 55, no. 4
Date: Oct 1922
Pages: 340-355
Agustin Nieto Caballero - Biographic sources, Americas, Colombia, Gimnasio Moderno (Bogota, Colombia), Latin America and the Caribbean, Montessori method of education, South America
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Abstract/Notes: Specifically see page 346-7: "... Chief among these is the Gymnasio Moderno in Bogota, founded mainly through the efforts of Agustin Nieto Caballero, a graduate of Yonkers High School and Columbia University in New York before he studied law and education in Paris. Returning to Colombia in his early twenties with a zeal for educational betterment, this young man induced nine friends to join him in subscribing $100,000 for the foundation of a nonsectarian modern school. From the Montessori babies up to college entrance, the Gymnasio Moderno aims to follow the most advanced methods of Europe and America. Teachers and equipment have been brought from abroad..."
Language: English
ISSN: 2332-9424