Abstract/Notes: The theoretical part of the paper deals with the description of Montessori pedagogy and its outlook on the teacher’s personality. In the application part, it provides the methodology background to the research based on a quantitative content analysis method that deals with academic journals and papers with the subject of pedagogy in general, pre-school, primary education and pedagogy for special educational needs in Slovakia in context of the articles about the Montessori pedagogy as a possible source of an informal education.

Language: Polish

ISSN: 2353-7140, 2353-7159

Abstract/Notes: With the publication of The Century of the Child in Sweden (1900), which was immediately translated in many European countries and in the United States, Ellen Key’s theories start to be applied to educational experiences in spaces and environments reconsidered for children’s well-being: the aesthetic and pedagogical dimensions are integrated in the context of the landscape and the city. The pedagogical value of school buildings and furniture becomes an antidote to the degradation and disintegration of the human personality. During the course of the twentieth century, some innovative educational experiences, like those of Maria Montessori and Margherita Zoebeli, which share the idea of the harmonic development of all child’s potentials, give new importance to the versatility of spaces and the aesthetic quality of the school environment, which becomes a cornerstone for the promotion and development of the whole society. In face of tragic events like wars and dictatorships, there is an awareness that, between the Spartan model of a school-barracks, aimed at the education of soldiers, and Socrates’ model of the school-agora’, in order to foster an open, inclusive society it is the latter that must be chosen. Following this thread, we analyze the discussion that developed in Italy in the years after the Second World War among architects, city planners and pedagogues looking for innovative solutions, which were in large part disregarded.

Language: English

DOI: 10.6092/issn.1970-2221/6712

ISSN: 1970-2221

Abstract/Notes: Le rivoluzioni scientifiche dei primi decenni del Novecento misero in discussione i principi del paradigma classico della scienza e della natura. Maria Montessori comprese in profondità queste rivoluzioni, e intuì la necessità di un nuovo paradigma, capace di superare il modo di pensare per dicotomie (oggetto/soggetto, mente/corpo, organismo/ambiente, specie/ecosistema, natura/cultura, res cogitans/res extensa). Anticipò nella sua teoria e nella sua azione pedagogica e sociale i lineamenti di una epistemologia relazionale, sistemica ed evolutiva, che avrebbe poi conosciuto un pieno sviluppo a partire dagli ultimi decenni del secolo: un’epistemologia della complessità, all’interno di un orizzonte umanistico planetario. È questo l’orizzonte epistemologico e umanistico nel quale, con coraggio e immaginazione, Maria Montessori delineò la sua idea di «bambino cosmico» e di «educazione cosmica», e nel cui specchio oggi possiamo rileggere e rigenerare la sua idea. [The scientific revolutions of the early decades of the Twentieth century challenged the principles of the classical paradigm of science and nature. Maria Montessori deeply understood these revolutions, and realized the need for a new paradigm, able to overcome the thinking by dichotomies (object/subject, mind/body, organism/environment, species/ecosystem, nature/culture, res cogitans/res extensa). She anticipated in her theory and in her pedagogical and social action the features of a relational, systemic and evolutionary epistemology, which would later have developed starting from the last decades of the century: an epistemology of complexity, within a planetary humanistic horizon. This is the epistemological and humanistic horizon in which, with courage and imagination, Maria Montessori introduced her idea of a "cosmic child" and "cosmic education", and in whose mirror today we can reinterpret and regenerate her idea.]

Language: Italian

ISSN: 2036-6981

Abstract/Notes: This article present some observations about the Montessori's conception of science, indicating the centrality and the evolution in her pedagogy.

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.13128/Studi_Formaz-18019

ISSN: 2036-6981

Abstract/Notes: Specifična slika djeteta u Montessori pedagogiji utječe na značajke Montessori odgojitelja, njegovu osobnu i stručnu pripremu te njegovu unutarnju pripremu. U ovom se radu analiziraju specifičnosti navedene pedagogije glede djeteta, odgojitelja i pripremljene okoline. Montessori pedagogija računa s periodima ili razdobljima posebne osjetljivosti kod djece i pridaje im veliku razvojnu i odgojnu važnost, a da bi dijete uspješno prošlo svaki od perioda, potrebno je da odrasli slijede i odgovaraju na potrebe djeteta. Na kraju rada istaknut ćemo glavne specifičnosti razvoja i poimanja djeteta prema ovoj pedagogiji. [A specific picture of the child in Montessori pedagogy affects the qualities of Montessori educators, their personal and professional preparation and their internal preparation. This paper analyses the specifics of the mentioned pedagogy regarding the child, the educator and the prepared environment. Montessori pedagogy counts on periods or times of special sensitivity in children and attaches great developmental and educational importance to them, so that, should the child successfully pass each of the periods, it is necessary for adults to follow and respond to the needs of the child. At the end of the paper we will highlight the child’s main developmental characteristics and understanding of the child according to this pedagogy.]

Language: Croatian

ISSN: 0037-7074, 1849-1057

Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2012.692696

ISSN: 0924-3453, 1744-5124

Abstract/Notes: The fascination with the Montessori Method stems from a never quite exhaustive analysis of her studies, which, due to the multiplicity and complexity of its elements, continually lend themselves to readings, hermeneutic interpretations and discoveries. Following a series of “clues” that see the figure of Maria Montessori intertwined with that of Anna Freud, this article intends to enhance the interdisciplinary interweaving and the multiple links which, by relating pedagogy with psychoanalysis, favor a broader vision of the implications relating to the changes occurring during the first half of the twentieth century, in which the child is the protagonist.

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.36253/rse-10329

ISSN: 2532-2818

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0035-6247

Abstract/Notes: The pedagogical thought of Maria Montessori supports the multi-class as it is able to respect and care for the natural interests of children. From a series of interviews with the teachers of the multi-classes of some public schools in the upper Caserta area, it emerged how Montessori pedagogy offers valid and effective suggestions for teaching in the multi-classes. In particular, didactic continuity, heterogeneity, the teacher-director and the learner-actor, time management, reciprocal teaching represent the salient points of the Method embodied in the multi-classes.

Language: English

DOI: 10.6092/issn.1970-2221/12193

ISSN: 1970-2221

Abstract/Notes: This paper examines the thinking of Maria Montessori in relation to the contribution of other branches of educational science to the epistemological status of pedagogy. Specifically, it situates the interconnections between Montessori’s approach and medicine (primarily auxology and child neuropsychiatry) understood as a Naturwissenschaften, as well as the practical implications of this interrelatedness, within a heuristic framework that extends beyond the field of special education. Analysis of Montessori’s scientific output around the turn of the twentieth century is followed by a proposed outline of its present-day relevance, in terms of promising avenues of inquiry informed by Montessori’s initial ideas and educational work and recent neuropsychological research.

Language: English

DOI: 10.6092/issn.1970-2221/12161

ISSN: 1970-2221