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Children's Well-Being and Teachers' Benevolence as the Road to Higher Performance?: Cognitive Neuroscience and Montessori in Preschools
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Book Title: Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe: The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
Pages: 63-78
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Abstract/Notes: There is now a broad international consensus that investing in early childhood education and care represents the highest “return on investment” in terms of economic and social development. The pursuit of the dual objective of efficiency and equity has resulted in a reorientation of preschool curricula towards preparation for compulsory schooling, emphasizing the acquisition of the “fundamentals” (reading, writing, and arithmetic) most useful for future academic success. The chapter offers first a comparative analysis of how this “schooling process” unfolded in French and Belgian nursery schools and in the Danish kindergarten. It attests to the persistence of specific cultural and political traditions relating to both the respective roles of the state and families in early childhood education, as well as of conceptions of childhood and relations between adults and children. Second, based on field research conducted in French-speaking Belgium, it discusses the idea that the search for children's well-being and performance at the same time creates tensions in the exercise of the teaching profession. It then shows that it is possible to understand the success of the discourse of cognitive neuroscience and so-called alternative pedagogical methods, including Montessori, because these discourses seem to propose a way to overcome these tensions.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-00-337720-7
Article
Meditations on Parenting a High Schooler
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 28, no. 1
Date: Sep 2021
Pages: 20-22
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
IMC Accredited School Highlight: Innovation Montessori OCOEE
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Montessori Leadership, vol. 25, no. 1
Date: 2023
Pages: 26-27
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Language: English
Article
An Outline for an Anthropological Study of Place for Montessori High School Students
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Montessori Leadership, vol. 15, no. 1
Date: 2013
Pages: 4-8
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Language: English
Master's Thesis
The Development of a Montessori-Inspired Framework to Solve Dilemmas in Higher Education During the 5th Industrial Revolution
Available from: Theseus (Finland)
Educational change, Higher education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: A new framework was developed based on Montessori's pedagogy, Andragogy principles, and Heutagogy principles, to address the challenges of 5IR education. Modern-day Higher Education Institutions must explore innovative approaches to teaching and foster a culture of lifelong learning among students. A qualitative, thematic structured literature review was conducted to examine Montessori's pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy. The aim was to create a new framework that can be implemented in higher education institutions (HEIs) to address the educational needs of the 5th Industrial Revolution (5IR). To achieve this, ten articles were selected using pre-defined keywords, and articles older than 10 years and those that didn't answer the research question and sub-question were eliminated. Similarities, concerns, mismatches, and dilemmas were extracted from the selected articles. These were then compared to the 5IR education requirements to create the new framework. It was found that the combination of Montessori’s pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy has the potential to address the dilemmas found in 5IR education. Montessori strongly emphasises self-directed, self-determined learning and is guided by individualised instruction that fulfils the principles of Andragogy. Andragogy focuses on the learner’s autonomy and own experiences. Coupled with this is Heutagogy, which focuses on self-determined learning. This could only contribute to the idea of Montessori’s pedagogy in HEI. Montessori’s method should provide a strong philosophical foundation and perspective to the combined approach idea. Future work could look at the practical application to fully explore the potential of the combination to address 5IR educational dilemmas.
Language: English
Published: Helsinki, Finland, 2024
Bachelor's Thesis
Aðferð Mariu Montessori og HighScope-stefnan: eiga þau samleið?
Available from: Skemman
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Abstract/Notes: Markmið ritgerðarinnar er að skoða nánar muninn á Montessori-aðferðinni og HighScope-stefnunni. Fjallað verður ítarlega og kynnt verður aðferð Montessori og lögð verður áhersla á hvernig aðferðin nýtist í kennslu og sem námstækni á ung börn. Kynntar verða hugmyndir um HighScope-stefnuna og hvernig hún nýtist í uppeldi frá fæðingu til snemmfullorðinsára. Til þess að fá betri skilning á slíkri tegund uppeldis þá verður stuðst við rit eftir m.a. Hohmann, David P. Weikart og Ann S. Epstein. Rýnt verður í hvernig áhrif samskiptatækni í slíku uppeldi hefur á börn og ungmenni og hvort lærdómurinn út frá uppeldinu muni nýtast þeim á snemmfullorðins og fullorðinsárum. Rannsóknarspurningin sem leitað verður svara við er, eiga uppeldisaðferðir Montessori og HighScope-stefnan samleið?Tekin verða eigindleg viðtöl við viðkomandi einstaklinga sem að nota aðferðirnar í sínu starfi. Síðan verða gögn úr viðtölum og gögn úr þemagreiningu notuð til að svara rannsóknarspurningu og verður stuðst við fyrri sambærilegar rannsóknir og ritrýndar heimildir. Þegar gerð verður grein fyrir uppeldisháttunum hvor um sig þá verða þeir settir í samhengi um notagildi þeirra og að lokum verða þeir bornir saman. Viðfangsefnið vekur upp áhuga vegna þess að báðar aðferðir og hugmyndafræðin á bak við þær hafa komið sér vel fyrir börn frá unga aldri, fyrir félagslegan og vitsmunalegan þroska þeirra sem og eigið sjálfstæði og samskiptahæfileika við önnur börn og fullorðna. Það er áhugavert að skoða hvernig nýta má Montessori-aðferðina ásamt HighScope-stefnunni. Einnig verður fjallað um hugmyndafræði Reggio Emiliu.
Language: Icelandic
Published: Reykjavik, Iceland, 2019
Article
Highligting Member Schools: Countryside/NewGate School, Sarasota, FL
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 31, no. 2
Date: 2024
Pages: 27-28
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
The impact of high-stakes testing on teaching and learning: can this be predicted or controlled?
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: System, vol. 28, no. 4
Date: Dec 2000
Pages: 499-205
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Abstract/Notes: One of the issues which attracted the attention of language testers in the 1990s was the impact of high-stakes tests on the classroom: what kind of influence did such tests have on teaching and learning and what could educators do to ensure that this was beneficial rather than harmful? Some progress was made in defining notions such as ‘impact’ and ‘washback’, and a number of studies appeared which analysed the relationship between tests and teachers’ and learners’ attitudes and behaviour. There was a growing awareness of the importance of factors other than test design in determining whether tests would have the impact that was desired. These factors also appear in the literature of educational innovation, and it is to this field that some testers turned for guidance on whether test impact could be predicted or controlled. This paper summarises what language testers have learned about test impact in the last decade and discusses what one model of educational innovation has revealed about how tests interact with other factors in the testing situation. It concludes with a set of recommendations about the steps future test developers might take in order to assess the amount of risk involved in attempting to create change through testing.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(00)00035-X
ISSN: 0346-251X, 1879-3282
Article
Multi-Age Classes and High Ability Students
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Review of Educational Research, vol. 69, no. 2
Date: 1999
Pages: 187-212
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Abstract/Notes: Reviews research on multiage classroom organization as an option for high-ability students. Studies of cognitive and affective factors have consistently shown positive effect sizes. Discusses conditions under which positive effects are most likely and explores multiage classes as an alternative for high-ability children. (Contains 85 references.) (SLD)
Language: English
ISSN: 0034-6543, 1935-1046
Article
The First Montessori High School in the U.S. [Barrie School, Silver Spring, Maryland]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 10, no. 1
Date: Winter 1983
Pages: 4–6
Americas, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X