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In the Classroom: Doing What Comes Naturally
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Gifted Child Today, vol. 20, no. 2
Date: 1997
Pages: 26-50
Master's Thesis (M.Sc.)
A Natural History of Preschool Children's Behaviour
Available from: University of Lethbridge - Institutional Repository
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Abstract/Notes: Naturalistic observations in a free play day care were conducted to study motor and object manipulation behaviour in preschool-aged children. Behaviour settings theory, which predicts that setting has greater influence over behaviour than individual factors, was tested by comparing behaviour between indoor and outdoor settings. Analysis confirmed that there were motor and object manipulation rate differences across settings. Consequently, setting was controlled for in the second analysis, which looked at repetitive behaviour. Repetition is a central concept to Montessori educational theory and is used as a learning tool in Montessori classrooms; however, little information about repetition as a developmentally typical behaviour is available. A natural history of repetition was recorded to determine: activities during which repetition takes place; commonality of repetition across children; age that children most frequently engage in repetition; and length of repetitive bouts. Analysis revealed similarities and differences between Montessori's account of repetition and observed behaviour.
Language: English
Published: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 2016
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Be Courageous to Teach Young Children Science: They're Naturals!
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 27, no. 4
Date: May 2021
Pages: 12-13
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Montessori Lectures; Natural Arithmetic
Available from: The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive - Gale
Publication: The Times Educational Supplement (London, England)
Date: Jun 16, 1923
Pages: 283
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Language: English
ISSN: 0040-7887
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Budding Naturalists: Pupils of Wharfedale Montessori...
Available from: The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive - Gale
Publication: The Times Educational Supplement (London, England)
Date: Feb 7, 1997
Pages: 2
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Language: English
ISSN: 0040-7887
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Natural Born Learners
Publication: The Times Magazine (London, England)
Date: Jul 20, 2002
Pages: 34-35, 37, 39
Americas, David Kahn - Biographic sources, Hershey Montessori Farm School (Huntsburg, Ohio), Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, United States of America
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Language: English
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Montessori School Offers Children Natural Facilities for Development
Available from: California Digital Newspaper Collection
Publication: San Diego Union (San Diego, California)
Date: Apr 23, 1922
Pages: 1
Americas, Montessori schools, North America
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Language: English
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Lo Spazio al Centro - L'educazione cosmica in classe: esperire, manipolare, classificare gli elementi naturali
Available from: Fondazione Montessori
Publication: MoMo (Mondo Montessori), no. 12
Date: Dec 2017
Pages: 96-98
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Language: Italian
ISSN: 2421-440X, 2723-9004
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The Miracle of Olga: Montessori Reading and Writing as Natural for Your Child as Speech
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Delineator, vol. 85, no. 3
Date: Sep 1914
Pages: 22, 46
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Language: English
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A Natural History of Repetition
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 5, no. 2
Date: 2019
Pages: 15-44
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this study was to understand typically developing children’s repetitive behavior in a free-play, daycare setting. By studying repetition in a non-Montessori setting, we tested the assumption that repetition is a characteristic behavior of all young children and not limited to the Montessori environment. Although Maria Montessori identified repetition during her observations, there is little empirical evidence to support her claim: most research has considered repetition in terms of psychopathology. We collected naturalistic observational data on 31 3- to 6-year-old children for a total of 101 hours to investigate the frequency, contexts, and structure of repetitive bouts. Multilevel model results suggest the ubiquity of repetition, as all children in the study engaged in motor repetition. Furthermore, repetition occurred throughout all free-play activities (construction, animation, fantasy play, rough-and-tumble play, and undirected activity), although repetition was not equally distributed across activities. Motor repetition was not equal across ages either; younger children engaged in more motor repetition than did older children. To understand the structure of repetition, our study also looked at the length of repetition bouts, which ranged from 2 to 19 repetitions and averaged 2.86 repetitions per bout. This natural history of repetition is an influential starting point for understanding the role of repetition in development and is informative to both Montessori and non-Montessori early childhood educators.
Language: English
ISSN: 2378-3923