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Grappling with the miseducation of Montessori: A feminist posthuman rereading of 'child' in early childhood contexts
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, vol. 23, no. 3
Date: 2022
Pages: 302-316
Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: This article demonstrates how feminist posthumanism can reconfigure conceptualisations of, and practices with, ‘child’ in Montessori early childhood contexts. It complicates Montessori’s contemporary reputation as a ‘middle-class phenomenon’ by returning to the earliest Montessori schools as a justice-oriented project for working-class children and families. Grappling with the contradictions and inconsistencies of Montessori thought, this article acknowledges the legacy of Montessori’s feminism while also situating her project within the wider colonial capitalist context in which it emerged. A critical engagement with Montessori education unsettles modernist conceptualisations of ‘child’ and its civilising agenda on minds and bodies. Specifically, Montessori child observation (as a civilising mission) is disrupted and reread from a feminist posthumanist orientation to generate more relational, queer and expansive accounts of how ‘child’ is produced through observation. Working with three ‘encounters’ from fieldwork at a Montessori nursery, the authors attend to the material-discursive affective manifestation of social class, gender, sexuality and ‘race’, and what that means for child figurations in Montessori contexts. They conclude by embracing Snaza’s ‘bewildering education’ to reach towards different imaginaries of ‘child’ that are not reliant on dialectics of ‘human’ and ‘non-human’, and that allow ‘child’ to be taken seriously, without risking erasure of fleshy, leaky, porous, codified bodies in Montessori spaces.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1177/14639491221117222
ISSN: 1463-9491
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Człowiek upodmiotowiony. Właściwości osobowości autorskiej absolwentów klas Montessori. Raport z badań / The Empowered Human-Being. Self-Authoring Personality Characteristics of Graduates of Montessori Classes. A Research Report
Available from: Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow
Publication: Edukacja Elementarna w Teorii i Praktyce / Elementary Education in Theory and Practice, vol. 13, no. 1 (whole no. 47)
Date: 2018
Pages: 105-120
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Abstract/Notes: The article presents a study on the level of self-authorizing personality development conducted in 2013-2016 within a group of 69 adolescents, alumni of a Montessori school in Lublin then aged 16-21. The method for collecting empirical data was a POA questionnaire designed by K. Obuchowski, measuring 3 main dimensions of personality: subjectivity, being a person and individual valuation standards. The results proved that almost all of the graduates of Montessori classes had developed self-authoring characteristics at an optimum level. The average results of the three main dimensions of the author’s personality: subjectivity, being a person and taking an attitude are significantly higher than the theoretical average of the scale, which allows the determination of a high level of all areas of authorial personality and the co-occurrence of the aforementioned properties. The obtained values in the range of 14 differential categories of the author’s personality are significantly higher from the theoretical average of the scale and inform about the high level of all personality characteristics. There was no difference in the personality profile due to the sex of the graduates. According to Obuchowski’s observations, the respondents realize their needs and are able to distance themselves from them, develop themselves, guide the sense of their existence, positively assess themselves, their goals and the world around them. The ability of the subjects to generate a set of reasons that underlie the strongest subjective standard of valence (attitude) means not only the mastering and dominance of abstract operations, which condition the conscious creation of private knowledge, become independent of the control of a specific experience, create the opportunity for effective long-distance operation and enables them to make responsible choices. / Artykuł prezentuje badania nad poziomem rozwoju tzw. osobowości autorskiej, przeprowadzone w latach 2013–2016 na próbie 69 absolwentów szkoły Montessori w Lublinie, w wieku 16–21 lat. Do zebrania danych empirycznych posłużył opracowany przez K. Obuchowskiego kwestionariusz POA, mierzący trzy zasadnicze wymiary osobowości: podmiotowość, bycie sobą i indywidualne standardy waluacyjne. Wyniki przeprowadzonych badań pozwalają stwierdzić, że niemal wszyscy badani absolwenci szkoły Montessori rozwinęli w sobie właściwości autorskie na poziomie optymalnym. Średnie wyniki trzech głównych wymiarów osobowości autorskiej: podmiotowość, bycie osobą i ustosunkowanie są istotnie wyższe od średniej teoretycznej skali, co pozwala wnioskować o wysokim poziomie wszystkich obszarów osobowości autorskiej oraz o współwystępowaniu wspomnianych właściwości. Otrzymane wielkości średnich w zakresie 14 kategorii różnicowych osobowości autorskiej są istotnie wyższe od średniej teoretycznej skali i informują o wysokim poziomie ukształtowania wszystkich cech osobowości autorskiej. Nie odnotowano zróżnicowania profilu własności osobowości autorskiej ze względu na płeć i wiek indagowanych absolwentów. Zgodnie z obserwacjami K. Obuchowskiego, badane osoby uświadamiają sobie swoje potrzeby i potrafią się do nich zdystansować, rozwijają się, kierując sensem swojego istnienia, pozytywnie oceniają siebie, swoje cele oraz świat wokół siebie. Zdolność generowania przez badanych zestawu racji leżących u podstaw najsilniej odczuwanego podmiotowego standardu waluacji (ustosunkowanie), oznacza nie tylko opanowanie i dominację operacji abstrakcyjnych, które warunkują świadome tworzenie prywatnej wiedzy, uniezależniają od kontroli konkretnego doświadczenia, stwarzają szansę skutecznego działania na długi dystans, umożliwiają podejmowanie odpowiedzialnych wyborów.
Language: Polish
DOI: 10.14632/eetp.2017.13.47.105
ISSN: 1896-2327, 2353-7787
Article
Nascer, crescer, morrer e aprender: um estudo sobre as fases da vida humana na educaçao infantil
Available from: Fondazione Montessori
Publication: MoMo (Mondo Montessori), no. 4
Date: Dec 2015
Pages: 106-114
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Abstract/Notes: Part of the special issue: Maria Montessori nel XXI secolo - Interventi Dal Congresso Internazionale: Maria Montessori e la scuola dell'infanzia a nuovo indirizzo (20-24 Febbraio 2015, Pontifica Università Lateranense, Roma.
Language: Portuguese
ISSN: 2421-440X, 2723-9004
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Montessori dijete – vodič za roditelje znatiželjnih i odgovornih ljudskih bića [The Montessori child – a guide for parents of curious and responsible human beings]
Available from: Hrčak - Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals
Publication: Educational Issues / Odgojno-obrazovne teme, vol. 5, no. 2
Date: 2022
Pages: 195-201
Child development, Montessori method of education, Parent education
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Language: Croatian
ISSN: 2623-7911, 2623-873X
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Montessōri kyōiku no hyūmanizumu / モンテッソーリ教育のヒューマニズム [Humanism in Montessori Education]
Publication: Montessori Kyōiku / モンテッソーリ教育 [Montessori Education], no. 6
Date: 1974
Pages: 95-107
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Language: Japanese
ISSN: 0913-4220
Article
Ningen-teki seichō to montessōri kyōiku / 人間的成長とモンテッソーリ教育 [Human Growth and Montessori Education]
Publication: Montessori Kyōiku / モンテッソーリ教育 [Montessori Education], no. 17
Date: 1985
Pages: 1-2
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Language: Japanese
ISSN: 0913-4220
Article
[Maria Montessori, "To Educate the Human Potential" (book review)]
Publication: Montessori Kyōiku / モンテッソーリ教育 [Montessori Education], no. 25
Date: 1993
Pages: 101-104
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Language: Japanese
ISSN: 0913-4220
Article
Shohyō shiruvu~āna Q. Montanāro-cho "inochi no himitsu" Silvana Q. Montanaro, Understanding the Human Being / 書評 シルヴァーナQ.モンタナーロ著『いのちのひみつ』Silvana Q. Montanaro, Understanding the Human Being / Silvana Q. Montanaro, Understanding the Human Being
Publication: Montessori Kyōiku / モンテッソーリ教育 [Montessori Education], no. 37
Date: 2004
Pages: 141-144
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Abstract/Notes: This is an article from Montessori Education, a Japanese language periodical published by the Japan Association Montessori.
Language: Japanese
ISSN: 0913-4220
Book
Towards Healthy Humanity
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Language: English
Published: [India]: [Indian Montessori Centre], n.d.
Book Section
Das Menschenbild in der Heilpädagogik am Beispiel der Integration von Kindern mit Behinderungen unter Einbeziehung der Montessori-Pädagogik [The image of humanity in curative education using the example of the integration of children with disabilities using Montessori education]
Book Title: Untersuchungen und Ansätze zur Weiterentwicklung der Montessori-Pädagogik in Österreich [Investigations and approaches for the further development of Montessori pedagogy in Austria]
Pages: 13-31
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Language: German
Published: Innsbruck, Germany: Studien Verlag, 2009
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 978-3-7065-4721-5 3-7065-4721-X
Series: Initiative neues Lernen