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Doctoral Dissertation
Skolans Levda Rum och Lärandets Villkor: Meningsskapande i Montessoriskolans Fysiska Miljö [The School's Living Space and the Conditions of Learning: Creating Meaning in the Montessori School's Physical Environment]
Architecture, Design, Environment, Europe, Nordic countries, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Sweden
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Abstract/Notes: This study examines the school’s physical environment as a place of learning, and takes its starting point in the phenomenology movement, inspired both by Merleau-Ponty’s thesis of man’s physical relation to the world and by the existential analysis represented by Heidegger which implies a mutual relationship between man and the world. Such a view rejects a standpoint which describes man as being divided between a material body and a thinking soul. Instead, there emerges an embodied self which engages in meaningful interaction with its surroundings. The choice of this standpoint has implications for the design of the school’s physical environment. Montessori pedagogy is one of the activity-based pedagogies which have designed the physical environment in line with this theory. The purpose of the study is to understand, but further to visualise, the way in which the conditions for learning for children and adolescents are created in schools, from pre-school to lower secondary level, which follow the Montessori pedagogy. The material for the empirical study has been gathered from Europe and the US and from differing social contexts. The reason for this is to discover what distinguishes the prepared environment. The study also discusses the way in which the argument for a form of schooling which is based on activity, from the early 20th century to the present day, has been addressed through the architectural design of schools. The thesis shows that the rich array of didactic material in the schools observed offers pupils the opportunity to perform activities which create meaning. The organisation of the environment provides the pupils with the necessary conditions to concentrate fully on their work and to complete their tasks without interruption. I see the didactic continuity which prevails from pre-school to the lower secondary school in the Montessori schools studied as a prerequisite if the pedagogical activity is to offer meaning and create the conditions for learning in the way demonstrated by the empirical studies.
Language: Swedish
Published: Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
Article
Bulletin of Panama-California Exposition: Announcing a Joint Summer Session under auspices of The San Diego State Normal School, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The School of American Archaeology, The Montessori Institute, July 5-Aug 13, 1915
Available from: San Diego State University Libraries
Publication: Normal News Weekly (San Diego, California)
Date: Jun 21, 1915
Pages: [unpaged]
Americas, International Montessori Training Course (3rd [course 1], Los Angeles and San Diego, USA, May - July 1915), Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education - Teacher training, Montessori method of education - Teachers, North America, Panama-California Exposition (1915-1916, San Diego, California), Teacher training, Teachers, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: "Faculty – The Montessori Institute — Dottoressa Maria Montessori and Assistants" ... "The Montessori Institute – During the month of July, San Diego is to receive and entertain as an honored guest of the city, the Exposition and the schools of the city, the famous Dottoressa Maria Montessori, who will bring for that month, her private class in Montessori methods now organized in Los Angeles, and which is not open to other Summer School students. In addition to this private class, there will be on the Exposition grounds, a Montessori demonstration school of children, which will be open for daily observation by all students registered for the summer session. Students will thus be able to get at first hand the Montessori methods and principles."
Language: English
Article
Peace Pieces: A Peace Pole Unites a Washington School [Central Kitsap School District]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 10, no. 2
Date: Winter 1998
Pages: 27
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Starting a Montessori High School: Elonera [Elonera Montessori School, Wollongong, NSW]
Publication: Montessori Matters, no. 1
Date: May 1999
Pages: 7–10
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Language: English
Article
School Focus: Farmhouse Montessori School [North Balgowlah, Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: Dec 2004
Pages: 19
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Language: English
Article
School Focus: Discovering the Child: Celebrating 25 Years of Canberra Montessori School
Publication: Montessori Matters, no. 2
Date: 2006
Pages: 12
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Language: English
Book
Nursery Report on: Nidra Montessori Nursery School, the School Room, Castle Street, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire: The Inspection of Educational Provision for Four Year Old Children
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Language: English
Published: Cardiff, Wales: Welsh Office, 1998
Article
IMS Montessori Schools [Profiles of 7 Schools]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: Mar 1982
Pages: 1, 3-4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
Article
Assessment: The Family-School Partnership: How It Works at School of the Woods
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: 1991
Pages: 38–41
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
School Focus: The Beehive Montessori School (perth)
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 2005
Pages: 13
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Language: English