Abstract/Notes: The paper presents the idea of human development according to the Maria Montessori theory of education. Firstly, the sensitive periods in the child’s development, responsible for the extreme absorption of specific competences, were identified and shortly described. Then attention was paid to the Montessori System of Relation consisting of the brain, senses and muscles that underlies the person’s philosophy of action. The following sections show the main elements of Montessori Cosmic Education and the role of the human being in the universe. The importance of social, religious and ecological education in the plan of cosmic development of the person has been presented in the main part of the paper. The conclusion shows the Montessori’s belief that a man has a special cosmic task consisting in transforming and improving the world and discovering one’s place in it. The task of a new human being is to shape future generations not only externally but also in terms of spiritual development. / W artykule została zaprezentowana koncepcja rozwoju człowieka w teorii edukacji według Marii Montessori. Wyszczególniono wrażliwe fazy rozwoju odpowiedzialne za ekstremalną chłonność w uczeniu się i nabywaniu konkretnych kompetencji. Zwrócono uwagę na system relacji składający się z mózgu, zmysłów i mięśni oraz na filozofię działania. W dalszej części ukazano główne elementy wychowania kosmicznego oraz rolę człowieka we wszechświecie. Przedstawione zostało znaczenie edukacji społecznej, religijnej i ekologicznej w kosmicznym planie rozwoju osoby. We wnioskach podkreślone zostało przekonanie Montessori, że człowiek posiada specjalną misję w kosmicznym planie stworzenia, a jest nią przekształcanie i ulepszanie świata oraz odkrywanie swojego miejsca w nim. Zadaniem nowego człowieka ma być kształtowanie przyszłego pokolenia nie tylko zewnętrznie, ale również po względem rozwoju duchowego.
Language: Polish
ISSN: 2080-3400
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La visione del bambino in Maria Montessori: tra pedagogia speciale, psicologia dello sviluppo e didattica generale [Maria Montessori’s Vision of the Child: Between Special Education, Developmental Psychology and General Didactics]
Abstract/Notes: This contribution aims to highlight the aspects of the Montessori Method that are particularly functional to inclusive classroom management and for a heterogeneous school context. The theoretical framework is the idea of education in the Montessori approach in that she is considered the forerunner of an inclusive pedagogical vision. In fact, while the first years of her research were addressed to the field of special education, she was soon convinced of the possibility of extending her studies also to “conventional” schools. On the basis of this belief, her experimental work was soon extended from institutions for disabled children to a series of kindergartens (called “Children’s House”) first in Rome and then in the rest of the world. In the second part of this brief analysis, a study is presented on the use of the QBS questionnaire (Tobia & Marzocchi, 2015) with a sample of 73 Montessori public school children and their parents. The questionnaire on “Quality of Wellbeing at School” is the tool we selected for the phase of data collection, with the intention to investigate the point of view of pupils and their parents. Our analysis aims to understand the perception of well-being at school in children and their families. The statistical analysis applied to the results from the administration of the questionnaires revealed some significant data, in particular in the scale relating to satisfaction and recognition and in the scale relating to the relationship with classmates. At the same time, the statistical analysis of the questionnaire dedicated to parents revealed a significant effect on the scale related to child awareness.
Language: Italian
ISSN: 2282-5061, 2282-6041
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Beyond Biological Ties: Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori, and the Construction of Social Motherhood
Abstract/Notes: At the turn of the twentieth century, many Italian intellectuals opposed women’s participation in the public sphere, maintaining that women could not engage in politics due to their exclusive love for their biological children. Contemporary feminists countered this notion by promoting the idea of social motherhood. Sibilla Aleramo and Maria Montessori, better known for their work in feminist literature and early childhood education, respectively, made important contributions to this debate by implementing, theorizing, and popularizing the notion of social motherhood. This essay traces the strategies the two intellectuals used to demonstrate how women could act as political subjects via a socialization of the maternal functions. In her novel Una donna, Aleramo offered a fictional portrait of the social mother. Influenced by it and by the feminist debate on motherhood, Montessori conceptualized the notion of social motherhood as both a socialization of maternal duties and the expansion of women’s maternal virtues into the social world. Montessori also applied this notion to her first pedagogical experiments in San Lorenzo (Rome) and with the orphans of the 1908 Messina-Reggio earthquake. An analysis of these intellectuals’ formerly overlooked contributions provides a new understanding of the role of social motherhood in the contemporary feminist debate in Italy.
Abstract/Notes: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan membaca permulaan melalui metode Montessori. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan desain action research. Penelitian ini terdiri dari dua siklus. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini adalah observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Dalam penelitian ini menggunakan pemeriksaan keabsahan data menurut Guba meliputi credibility, tranferability, dependability, dan confirmability. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan data pra tindakan sebesar 40,71 %, siklus I sebesar 74,12 %, dan siklus II sebesar 85,96%. Dari hasil tersebut disimpulkan bahwa metode montessori dapat meningkatkan kemampuan membaca permulaan anak
Language: English
ISSN: 2620-3278
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L'Apprendimento come partecipazione a contesti significativi: l’esperienza del Reggio Emilia Approach alla luce dei contributi di Maria Montessori e John Dewey
Abstract/Notes: Ripercorrendo gli spunti educativi offerti da Montessori e Dewey, il presente contributo intende proporre una lettura ragionata del ruolo del contesto come fattore educante nella pedagogia reggiana. Secondo un approccio socio-costruttivista, non solo l’ambiente scolastico, ma ogni tipologia di contesto sociale e culturale può essere importante ai fini educativi, se vi si rintracciano ed evidenziano relazioni significative, in un’ottica generativa di nuovi significati e relazioni.
Abstract/Notes: Current review article; It aimed to deal with cosmic education holistically by giving cosmic perspective, cosmic education, cosmic education materials and examples of cosmic education application through the theme of Montessori and Life. Montessori considers cosmic education not only as a part of the whole but also as a continuous process of change. She states that everyone in the universe is interconnected by a mutual relationship, therefore everyone has a responsibility to each other. The cosmic education that is prepared to build the awareness of the responsibility is wide and complex. In cosmic education, different aspects of a person are considered by depending on all living forms on the planet that the person interacts with. It includes the elaboration of a holistic vision of the world, the cosmos, and the role of the human being in it, its history, civilizations, cultures. The cosmic education considers that the world does not have only geographical features; it also has different aspects of the world and human beings such as biological, and historical features. However, the cosmic education materials are the least attractive materials of Montessori classrooms. The education plan starts with the child getting to know his/her immediate surroundings and continues to the discovery of the solar system. In this context, a holistic view of Montessori cosmic education is presented by giving examples of the cosmic perspective, cosmic education, cosmic education materials, and its application. / Mevcut derleme; Montessori ve Yaşam teması üzerinden kozmik bakış açısı, kozmik eğitim, kozmik eğitim materyalleri ve kozmik eğitim uygulama örneklerine yer verilererek kozmik eğitimi bütüncül olarak ele almayı amaçlamıştır. Montessori kozmik eğitimi sadece bütünün bir parçası olarak değil, devam eden bir değişim süreci olarak görmektedir. Evrendeki her bir varlığın karşılıklı bir ilişkiyle birbirine bağlı olduğunu bu sebeple de her varlığa bir sorumluluk düştüğünü belirtmektedir. Bu sorumluluk bilincini kazandırmaya yönelik hazırlanan kozmik eğitim alanı, geniş ve karmaşık bir alandır. Kozmik eğitim içerisinde gezegendeki bütün canlı formlarla ilişkili olarak kişinin farklı yönleri dikkate alınmaktadır. Dünyanın, kozmosun ve onun içinde insanın rolü, tarihi, medeniyetleri, kültürleri bütünsel bir vizyonunun detaylandırılmasını kapsamaktadır. Kozmik eğitim materyalleri Montessori sınıfının en az dikkat çeken materyalleri olmasının dışında, kozmik eğitim dünyamızı sadece coğrafik olarak değil; içerisinde biyoloji, coğrafya, tarih gibi dünyaya ve insana dair farklı açılardan da görmektedir. Çocuğun yakın çevresini tanımasıyla başlayan çalışmalar, güneş sisteminin keşfine kadar uzanmaktadır. Bu kapsamda kozmik bakış açısı, kozmik eğitim, kozmik eğitim materyalleri ve uygulamaya ilişkin örnek sunularak Montessori kozmik eğitime bütüncül bir bakış açısı sunulmuştur.
Abstract/Notes: Music is an integral part of every person’s life. Scientific research has shown the effectiveness of music in medical-rehabilitation contexts to the extent that it is considered, for some categories of people (disabled, socio-cultural, elderly), for the exclusive use of the psychotherapeutic field.The purpose of this review is to demonstrate the importance that music has also in the educational and didactic field to “exploit” its peculiarities, “beyond” the therapeutic component to include the many different contexts of life. Among these, the “digital environments” make music the protagonist of a “world 2.0”, within which, starting from the strengths of the differentiated Method of Maria Montessori, it is possible to create a union between pedagogy and musical education. The last section deals with deafness and music as a specimen, highlighting how theoretical and empirical research on this topic has dealt with it from a threefold perspective: on the one hand, music as rehabilitation therapy for deaf people; on the other, music’s contribution in the overall education of the deaf; finally, music as entertainment and its enjoyment as an expression of quality free time for deaf people.
Publication: Italian Journal of Special Education for Inclusion,
vol. 4, no. 1
Date: 2016
Pages: 25-46
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Abstract/Notes: By relying on the assumption that there are some missing, unknown, or omitted pieces in the History of Pedagogy and Education that are traceable in the History of other contiguous sciences, such as Medicine and Psychology, the author of this paper focuses his attention on the important role played by Medical Pedagogists. Among them we find such renowned names as Itard, Séguin, Montessori, Montesano, Bollea, but also lesser known ones such as Tamburini, Morselli, Pizzoli or Ferrari. These women and men devoted their attention to the education of people with disabilities, redefining the concept of education itself. For this reason, they should not be placed in a separate area- such as a supposed clinical pedagogy - or outside Science of Education, but ought to be identified as part of a historical path regarding education. A path that, by unfurling in the many stories that constitute it, eventually leads to multiplicity, which is one of the distinctive traits of Special Pedagogy.
Language: Italian
ISSN: 2282-5061, 2282-6041
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Maria Montessori e il “futuro” della medicina: alcuni elementi di una ricerca sul campo [Maria Montessori and the 'Future' of Medicine: Some Elements of a Field Research
Abstract/Notes: In 1951, Maria Montessori said that there would be a great future for medicine if it started to cure the patients’ souls, rather than just their bodies. What does this statement mean? Medicine has to turn into something different than what it currently is? The aim of this article is to contribute to a possible interpretation of Montessori’s argument, trying to overcome the separation between the medical and the pedagogical meanings of care. Starting from the data gathered through an ethnographical investigation carried out with a Special-Pedagogy perspective in many hospital divisions dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of Rare Illnesses, the author here discusses some critical aspects that affect medical actions of diagnosis and treatment dynamics. In order to set an interdisciplinary dialogue between medicine and pedagogy, this study provides some possible educational horizons for overcoming clinical mechanisms and elements that influence the identity development of the disabled person.