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Perspectives in Early Childhood Education: Belize, Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador and Peru
Available from: ERIC
Publication: Forum on Public Policy, vol. 2012, no. 1
Date: 2012
Pages: 1-27
Americas, Belize, Brazil, Central America, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, El Salvador, Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico, Peru, South America
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Abstract/Notes: Early childhood education (ECE) provision is becoming a growing priority. During the past twenty years, Latin America has shown a growing recognition in the provision of educational programs for young children, birth to age eight, is essential. Urban and rural populations intimated in 2009, that many countries utilizing equitable access to quality early childhood programs is often seen by policy makers as a means of achieving economic and political goals (United Nations, 2012). Unfortunately, a pre-occupation with economic and political goals may conflict with the provision of quality programming for young children. In a number of Latin American countries provisions for educating young children exist as intent to provide quality services. The continuing challenge is to finance, organize and regulate those well-meaning intentions. The objective of this article is two-fold. First, to describe national policy efforts that regulate the education of young children consistently. And, second, to reflect the status of early childhood education programming; and to examine the possibilities for the improvement of the quality and accessibility of an education for all young children. Five Latin American nations have been chosen for examination, including: Belize, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru. (Contains 4 tables.)
Language: English
ISSN: 1556-763X, 1938-9809
Article
Whole Systems Thinking: Education for Sustainability at a Montessori School
Available from: InformIT
Publication: Eingana, vol. 30, no. 1
Date: Jun 2007
Pages: 9-11
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Abstract/Notes: Whole systems thinking is a framework for seeing the whole picture, for establishing interrelationships and understanding phenomena as an integrated whole. Systems thinking may be contrasted with fragmentary thinking, which is viewing phenomena in their separate parts and focusing only on narrow specialisations. In an education for sustainability (EfS) context this means emphasising relationships: relationships between all the systems on planet Earth, and at different systems levels, as they relate to the environment, economics, government, health, and so on. Values and goals are also important aspects of these relationships. Sterling argues that: 'We are educated by and large to compete and consume rather than to care and conserve'. Furthermore, the same author maintains that because of the imposition of managerial and economic values on education we have lost touch with the social values and real-life contexts of authentic education. With these ideas in mind, this paper briefly examines the application of whole systems thinking on an EfS program at a small Montessori primary school in the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. [Author abstract, ed]
Language: English
ISSN: 0156-7608
Article
Cosmic Education
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 25, no. 3
Date: 2000
Pages: 53-77
Cosmic education, Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson - Writings, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Discusses Maria Montessori's view of the elementary child's educational needs. Maintains that older children need opportunities to use their reasoning abilities to come to a state of peace, stability, and security at the second plane of development. Discusses the teacher's role in cosmic education to incite curiosity and to teach responsibility. (KB)
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
개혁 교육적 관점에서 본 몬테소리 교육 [Montessori Education from a Reformed Educational Perspective]
Available from: RISS
Publication: Montessori교육연구 [Montessori Education Research], vol. 5
Date: 2000
Pages: 25-40
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Language: Korean
ISSN: 1226-9417
Article
Educational Ideals
Available from: ProQuest - Historical Newspapers
Publication: Times of India (Mumbai, India)
Date: Sep 27, 1941
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Book
La Première Étape: Les Méthodes Actuelles d'Éducation pour les Enfants de 2 à 7 ans: Principes, Documentation, Pratique
Montessori method of education
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Language: French
Published: Paris, France: Nathan, 1925
Article
Survey of Nursery Education in India
Publication: The Montessori Magazine: A Quarterly Journal for Teachers, Parents and Social Workers (India), vol. 3, no. 2
Date: Apr 1949
Pages: 39-41
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Language: English
Article
Montessori Education: Abiding Contributions and Contemporary Challenges: A Response
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2
Date: 1983
Pages: 57-65
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
Conference Paper
Emerging Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education
Available from: ERIC
Meeting of the Elementary Education Division of the Virginia State Department of Education
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Abstract/Notes: Ten selected emerging trends in the field of early childhood education are discussed in this conference address: (1) a reevaluation of the view that early childhood education is a panacea; (2) greater emphasis on planned continuity between kindergartens and the primary grades; (3) increased use of multi-age grouping; (4) need for parenthood education in the high school; (5) importance of parent involvement in the decision making and policy formation processes concerning the education of his child and the implementation of classroom programs; (6) wider acceptance of the structured or prepared environment in programs; (7) development of a quality day care environment based on careful research and evaluation, (8) importance of humanistic or affective education; (9) need for aesthetic education (music, dance, literature, dramatics) in the total education of the child; and (10) accountability of teachers to the consumer as well as to the school boards. (Paper presented at a meeting of the Virginia State Department of Education, Elementary Education Division – Richmond, Virginia – October 1974)
Language: English
Published: Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Department of Education, Oct 1974
Article
Variations in Implementation Fidelity in Montessori Education
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Montessori Leadership, vol. 15, no. 4
Date: 2013
Pages: 12-15
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Language: English