For faster results please use our Quick Search engine.
Advanced Search
Search across titles, abstracts, authors, and keywords.
Advanced Search Guide.
Article
The Psychology of Movement for Children from 0-3 by Dr Silvana Montanaro
Publication: Montessori Society Review, vol. 14
Date: 2004
Pages: 23–26
See More
Abstract/Notes: Summary of her talk at MEUK conference, May, 2004
Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation (Ed.D.)
The Developmental Psychology of Maria Montessori (Italy)
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
Developmental psychology, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
See More
Abstract/Notes: Montessori is historically recognized for her contributions to early education. Her primary recognition derived from the comprehensive educational program which became known as the Montessori Method. Relatively little attention has focused on her background as physician, psychiatrist, and pedagogical psychologist, from which she developed a body of psychological knowledge which established the foundation of the well-known Method. Her pedagogical psychology was overshadowed by her pedagogical theory despite her secure position in the history of child psychiatry. Also contributing to the non-acceptance of Montessori's psychology was the psychological tenor of the times. In the forefront of the psychological movement in the early 1900's were psychometric testing, Freud's psycho-sexual stages, Thorndike's stimulus-response theory, and the emergence of behaviorism under the leadership of Watson, to name a few. This climate was not hospitable to Montessori's developmental-interactionist theory. In the 1960's through the research findings of psychologists and the availability of Federal funds to compensate the "cumulative deficits" of the disadvantaged child, interest was focused on early childhood education and consequently the Montessori Method. As psychologists embraced Piaget's developmental theory, resemblances in thinking between Piaget and Montessori were noted. While psychologists pointed to Montessori's developmental-interactionist ideas, nobody attempted to elaborate her developmental theory in toto. This study attempts to do so. For Montessori, the development of the child takes place in successive and qualitatively different stages, with each stage providing the foundation for succeeding stages. Within this framework, she clearly delineates cognitive, motor, language, socialization, personality, and character as developing through stages. Cognitive structures develop through the child's interaction with, and actions upon, objects in the environment. A thorough examination of her theory leaves no doubt that Montessori is a cognitive developmentalist. While at times she appears nativistic, and at other times an extreme environmentalist, her position on development is interactionist and constructivist. Montessori is historically recognized for her contributions to early education. Her primary recognition derived from the comprehensive educational program which became known as the Montessori Method. Relatively little attention has focused on her background as physician, psychiatrist, and pedagogical psychologist, from which she developed a body of psychological knowledge which established the foundation of the well-known Method. Her pedagogical psychology was overshadowed by her pedagogical theory despite her secure position in the history of child psychiatry. Also contributing to the non-acceptance of Montessori's psychology was the psychological tenor of the times. In the forefront of the psychological movement in the early 1900's were psychometric testing, Freud's psycho-sexual stages, Thorndike's stimulus-response theory, and the emergence of behaviorism under the leadership of Watson, to name a few. This climate was not hospitable to Montessori's developmental-interactionist theory. In the 1960's through the research findings of psychologists and the availability of Federal funds to compensate the "cumulative deficits" of the disadvantaged child, interest was focused on early childhood education and consequently the Montessori Method. As psychologists embraced Piaget's developmental theory, resemblances in thinking between Piaget and Montessori were noted. While psychologists pointed to Montessori's developmental-interactionist ideas, nobody attempted to elaborate her developmental theory in toto. This study attempts to do so. For Montessori, the development of the child takes place in successive and qualitatively different stages, with each stage providing the foundation for succeeding stages. Within this framework, she clearly delineates cognitive, motor, language, socialization, personality, and character as developing through stages. Cognitive structures develop through the child's interaction with, and actions upon, objects in the environment. A thorough examination of her theory leaves no doubt that Montessori is a cognitive developmentalist. While at times she appears nativistic, and at other times an extreme environmentalist, her position on development is interactionist and constructivist. In contemporary terms her "psychopedagogy" would be considered an action psychology, which basically precludes it from academic "respectibility". Her theory contains both strengths and weaknesses in light of present-day thinking; however, on balance, Montessori's theory is quite contemporary and remarkably ahead of most of the psychological thinking of her time.
Language: English
Published: New York City, New York, 1982
Article
The Primacy of the Four Planes Psychology over Cosmic View
Available from: Association Montessori Internationale
Publication: AMI Journal (2013-), vol. 2020
Date: 2020
Pages: 30-31
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 2215-1249, 2772-7319
Article
Summer Conference in Psychology
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1963, no. 3
Date: 1963
Pages: 20–21
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 11, Folder 48 - Manuscript Fragments, n.d. - "Montessori and the Psychology of Religion"
Available from: Seattle University
Date: n.d.
Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings
See More
Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections
Article
The Child Is Father to the Man: The Psychology of Maria Montessori
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1970, no. 4
Date: 1970
Pages: 6–12
Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Montessori Education and Modern Psychology
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1962, no. 2
Date: 1962
Pages: 11–18
See More
Abstract/Notes: Speech to members of the Teaching Seminar at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
The Psychology of Mathematics [An address given to the Cambridge Education Society at Trinity College, on October 16, 1935]
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1971, no. 3
Date: 1971
Pages: 5-7
England, Europe, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Mathematics education, Northern Europe, United Kingdom
See More
Abstract/Notes: Address delivered on the occasion of the publication of the Spanish edition of Psicoaritmetica and Psicogeometria. (per Grazzini, Algebra, p. 93.) The Psychology of Mathematics An address given to the Cambridge Education Society at Trinity College (Cambridge, England), October 16, 1935. Also publshed in Montessori Notes, v2 n15 167-168 November
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Maria Montessori's Child Psychology and the Modern Physicist's View of Reality
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1969, no. 1
Date: 1969
Pages: 23–26
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
The Pedagogical Psychology of Maria Montessori: An Evaluation
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1980, no. 3
Date: 1980
Pages: 4–8
See More
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959