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Parents Must Play Active Role in Children's Education
Available from: Digital Library of the Caribbean
Publication: Barbados Advocate (Bridgetown, Barbados)
Date: Mar 30, 2019
Pages: 4
Americas, Barbados, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean
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Abstract/Notes: Discusses Inspire Academy which purports to "blend" the curriculum "with some Montessori techniques".
Language: English
Book
The Mind Behind the Musical Ear: How Children Develop Musical Intelligence
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Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991
ISBN: 0-674-57607-1
Article
Young Children and the Map of Europe
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1962, no. 3/4
Date: 1962
Pages: 11–13
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Doctoral Dissertation
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Korean Montessori Teacher Training Program as Perceived by Montessori Teachers and Parents of Montessori-Educated Children
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
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Abstract/Notes: During the past ten years, a total of 3,642 teachers and administrators have attended the Korean Montessori Teacher Training Program (KMTTP). A sample of Montessori teachers (n = 261) and Korean parents (n = 375) from 32 Korean Montessori schools located in the major cities of Korea were surveyed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of this teacher preparation program. The EXPECTATIONS AND GOAL ATTAINMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (EGAQ), designed by the researcher, was the instrumentation used to conduct this study. Major findings demonstrated that 74.5 percent of the teachers surveyed indicated that their main reasons for attending the KMTTP were to increase their professional competency and their knowledge of child development through Montessori philosophy. The correlation between teachers' levels of satisfaction with their preparation and perceived effectiveness of the training program was higher (r =.29, p $<$.05) than between their levels of satisfaction with the program and their perceptions of their preparedness after completion of training (r =.18, p $<$.05). Significant differences existed between perceived effectiveness of the KMTTP and teachers' ages, positions, and years of experience. Older teachers and those with more advanced teaching positions expressed greater satisfaction with the program. Teachers indicated that, upon completion of the KMTTP, they felt more prepared in, than knowledgeable of, Montessori educational methodology. From the parent perspective, the most frequently cited reason (74.3%) for sending their child to a Montessori School was to provide a learning environment that nurtured their child's interpersonal growth. A majority of the parents (58.5%) were very satisfied with the Montessori experience; no parents were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. In correlating the effectiveness of Montessori education with specific outcomes, parents indicated highest levels of satisfaction in the areas of "concentration" and "academic achievement." A majority of the teachers surveyed (52.8%) encouraged the implementation of the Montessori Teacher Training Program in neighboring countries, with 42.1 percent strongly encouraging implementation. This study demonstrated the need for further development and improvement in the area of Montessori teacher training in Korea.
Language: English
Published: San Francisco, California, 1994
Article
Where Do I Fit In? Cosmic Education and the Children's House
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 33, no. 2
Date: Summer 2021
Pages: 52-57
Children's House (Casa dei Bambini), Cosmic education, Lila S. Jokanovic - Writings
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Abstract/Notes: [...]she looks at our picture of Maria Montessori (whom we had discussed earlier that morning) hanging on the wall and observes, "So Maria Montessori is just a skeleton right now?" I say that that is probably correct. In the first hours of my teacher education, I jotted down this quote: "Cosmic education is the total interrelated functioning of the whole universe, which allows elementary children to store and organize a great amount of knowledge from among a wide range of different subject matter areas and disciplines" (Montessori, 1948, p. 21). Montessori maintained that children learn best in an environment that encourages freedom of movement and discovery, and a space to develop an early understanding about their place as individuals in the universe. In the Children's House, the prepared environment provides an order that allows for educating the whole child in every aspect from the use of materials that lead to natural consequences (for example, if there is a spill, the responsible person cleans it up) to furniture and works specifically designed for small hands.
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Talking About Sex: How to Tell Your Children What No One Told You
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 4, no. 4
Date: 1992
Pages: 20–21
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Lo sviluppo del senso musicale nel bambino in età prescolare con particolare riferimento al metodo Montessori [The development of musical sense in preschool children with particular reference to the Montessori method]
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Language: Italian
Published: Firenze, 1997
Article
The Effects of Three Different Educational Approaches on Children's Drawing Ability: Steiner, Montessori, and Traditional
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: British Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 70, no. 4
Date: 2000
Pages: 485-503
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Abstract/Notes: Although there is a national curriculum for art education in the UK there are also alternative approaches in the private sector. This paper addresses the issue of the effect of these approaches on children's drawing ability. Aim. To compare the drawing ability in three drawing tasks of children in Steiner, Montessori and traditional schools. Sample. The participants were 60 school children between the ages of 5;11 and 7;2. Twenty children were tested in each type of school. Method. Each child completed three drawings: a free drawing, a scene and an observational drawing. Results. As predicted, the free and scene drawings of children in the Steiner school were rated more highly than those of children in Montessori and traditional schools. Steiner children's use of colour was also rated more highly, although they did not use more colours than the other children. Steiner children used significantly more fantasy topics in their free drawings. Further observation indicated that the Steiner children were better at using the whole page and organising their drawings into a scene; their drawings were also more detailed. Contrary to previous research Montessori children did not draw more inanimate objects and geometrical shapes or fewer people than other children. Also, contrary to the prediction, Steiner children were significantly better rather than worse than other children at observational drawing. Conclusion. The results suggest that the approach to art education in Steiner schools is conducive not only to more highly rated imaginative drawings in terms of general drawing ability and use of colour but also to more accurate and detailed observational drawings.
Language: English
ISSN: 2044-8279, 0007-0998
Article
Montessori Expands: Teaching of Brain Damaged Children
Publication: Science Newsletter, vol. 88
Date: 1965
Pages: 375
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Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation
A Comparative Study of the Philosophies of John Amos Comenius and Maria Montessori on the Education of Children
Available from: Loyola University Chicago
John Amos Comenius - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources
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Language: English
Published: Chicago, Illinois, 1965