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Adult Leadership and the Development of Children's Spirituality: Exploring Montessori's Concept of the Prepared Environment
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: International Journal of Children's Spirituality, vol. 24, no. 4
Date: 2019
Pages: 356-370
Classroom environments, Learning environments, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prepared environment, Spirituality
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Abstract/Notes: This article explores Montessori’s concept of the Prepared Environment, which includes adult leadership, as an important contribution to the field of Children’s Spirituality. Montessori elevated the spiritual development of children to a central place in social life. She advocated preparation of the teacher as a community leader who works through the environment to guide a pedagogically-oriented process that underpins spiritual development. This model of leadership offers the child a reciprocal relationship with the Prepared Environment, which operates as the child’s true teacher. The preparation of the adult, as an element of the Prepared Environment, has a spiritual tone and is a key aspect of Montessori science and philosophy, designed to support the holistic development of the child as both a hope and a promise for human beings.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2019.1685949
ISSN: 1364-436X
Master's Thesis
Montessori 兒童中心 宗敎敎育의 活性化 方案 및 考察 [Montessori Children's Center Religious Education: Activation Plan and Survey]
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Language: Korean
Published: Daegu, South Korea, 1998
Master's Thesis (Action Research Report)
The Impact of Anti-Bias Literature Small Groups on Children's Understanding of Themselves, their Families, and Others
Available from: St. Catherine University
Action research, Lower elementary, Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this action research study was to explore how sharing anti-bias children’s books in literature small groups in a lower elementary Montessori class affects children’s perceptions of and ability to communicate about themselves, their families, and others, as well as the classmates with whom they choose to associate. The sample studied in this research was a class of 20 children aged six to nine at a private Montessori school located in a small town adjacent to a large Midwestern city. Data was collected through pre and post oral interviews, written reading reflection worksheets, and daily teacher observations of children’s work and play partners. The study found that anti-bias literature small groups are an effective way to improve children’s perceptions of themselves and their ability to communicate about human difference. More research is needed about how to improve children’s perceptions of their families and their ability to communicate about human similarity. Additionally, a longer intervention period and refined data collection tool are recommended in order to learn more about the impact of anti-bias literature small groups on children’s choice of work and play partners.
Language: English
Published: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2019
Article
Science and Culture Around the Montessori's First "Children's Houses" in Rome (1907-1915)
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 44, no. 3
Date: 2008
Pages: 238-257
Europe, Italy, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Between 1907 and 1908, Maria Montessori's (1870–1952) educational method was elaborated at the Children's Houses of the San Lorenzo district in Rome. This pioneering experience was the basis for the international fame that came to Montessori after the publication of her 1909 volume dedicated to her “Method.” The “Montessori Method” was considered by some to be scientific, liberal, and revolutionary. The present article focuses upon the complex contexts of the method's elaboration. It shows how the Children's Houses developed in relation to a particular scientific and cultural eclecticism. It describes the factors that both favored and hindered the method's elaboration, by paying attention to the complex network of social, institutional, and scientific relationships revolving around the figure of Maria Montessori. A number of “contradictory” dimensions of Montessori's experience are also examined with a view to helping to revise her myth and offering the image of a scholar who was a real early-twentieth-century prototype of a “multiple” behavioral scientist.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20313
ISSN: 1520-6696
Article
How Children Find Something To Do in Preschools
Publication: Genetic Psychology Monographs, vol. 90, no. 2
Date: 1974
Pages: 245-303
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Abstract/Notes: Conducted a 2-year observational study of a total of 81 lower- and middle-class 3-6 year olds to examine the behavior of young children in school settings which program all or part of the day as "free play" time. Results indicate that with age, children became more effective in moving from one activity to another; they spent less time in transition and longer periods in activity. Behaviors exhibited while in transition became less dependent on the immediate surrounding and seemed to indicate more autonomy. Lower-class boys had shorter activity lengths and more transitions than the other groups. A qualitative description of children's transition behavior is presented and possible implications of the findings for developmental and educational research are discussed.
Language: English
ISSN: 0016-6677
Article
Children's Choices
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 15, no. 3
Date: Summer 1988
Pages: 6–8
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
Article
The Children's Laboratory
Publication: Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, vol. 10
Date: Jul 20, 1912
Pages: 341-343
Alexander Graham Bell - Biographic sources, Americas, Canada, Mabel Bell - Biographic sources, Mabel Bell - Writings, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North America
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Language: English
Conference Paper
Divergent Production in Montessori Children
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Abstract/Notes: This study examined the contention that teacher instruction in the "correct use" of classroom equipment, as in the Montessori training method, inhibits a child's ability to generate other uses for that same equipment. Subjects were 31 matched pairs of four- and five-year-olds from two Montessori preschools and two traditional nursery schools. Each child was given adaptations of four Unusual Uses Test from Torrance's Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking and Writing. The tests utilized two items familiar to all children (a stuffed dog and a fork) and two Montessori equipment items (a triangular wooden block and a button frame). A comparison of the children's test results contradicted theassertion that teacher demonstration of how to use equipment inhibits creativity, whether or not the objects used are Montessori equipment items. (ST)
Language: English
Article
Children and Theatre
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 2, no. 4
Date: 1990
Pages: 26
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
The Effect of Montessori Daily Life Program Linked with Home on Children's Basic Living Habits and Self-Direction / 가정과 연계한 몬테소리 일상생활프로그램이 유아의 기본생활습관과 자기주도성에 미치는 영향
Available from: RISS
Publication: 아동교육 [The Korean Journal of Child Education], vol. 17, no. 4
Date: 2008
Pages: 35-48
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Language: Korean
ISSN: 1226-2722