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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
Article
The Children's Garden
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 1, no. 3
Date: May 1993
Pages: 14
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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
Teaching Children Without Class Work: Perfect Discipline Gained Almost Without Effort - System Utilizes Child's Physical Unrest - Method Has Proved Itself Effective
Available from: California Digital Newspaper Collection
Publication: San Jose Mercury (San Jose, California)
Date: May 14, 1912
Pages: 4
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Language: English
Article
Children's Art for NCME Conference
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 8, no. 2
Date: May 1984
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Article
Fort Play: Children Recreate Recess
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 19, no. 3
Date: 2007
Pages: 20-30
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Abstract/Notes: Recess beckons well before it actually arrives. Its allure can be heard in children's lunchtime conversations as they discuss imaginary roles, plans, alliances and teams, with an obvious appetite for play and its unbounded possibility. For some children, recess provides the most important reasons to come to school. In team sports, games of chase and tag, clique-bound conversations, solitary wandering and exploration, pretend and war play, recess offers reliable access to a scarce resource of immense value in the lives of children: spontaneous self-direction. Although watched over by the protective though generally unobtrusive gaze of supervising teachers, children at recess interact with their natural environment and with each other as they choose--a freedom denied them at other times while at school, and increasingly in their homes and neighborhood. As a lower elementary teacher at Lexington Montessori School (LMS) in Lexington, MA, from 1994 through 2002, the author witnessed for eight years the development of an extraordinary child-centered and spontaneous world of recess play (Powell, 2007). As children entered the elementary program at LMS, their peers initiated them into a culture of fort building. The forts, built entirely from sticks, leaves, and found objects from the surrounding woods, were the sites of considerable experimentation with different forms and rules of social organization and various styles of construction. They were also the vehicles for much of the conflict that occurred at the school. Children negotiated and clashed over ownership of land and resources and argued about the rules and roles of fort play and whether the rights of those already identified with a structure outweighed the rights of outsiders to be included. In doing so, they developed and influenced each other's reasoning about such moral principles as benevolence, justice, and reciprocity. Fort play was unpredictable, immediate, exciting, and fun, a brief window of opportunity,among hours of mostly adult-inspired activities and expectations, in which these children were free to manage their own lives and interact with each other on their own terms. As in the case of other schools where fort play has flourished, the LMS forts were in no way a programmed activity but rather a spontaneous one that simply wasn't stopped.
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Children and Contagious Diseases: Things Montessorians Should Know
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 3, no. 4
Date: 1991
Pages: 29–30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040