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Maria Montessori e il "futuro" della medicina: alcuni elementi di una ricerca sul campo [Maria Montessori and the 'Future' of Medicine: Some Elements of a Field Research
Available from: Pensa Multimedia
Publication: Italian Journal of Special Education for Inclusion, vol. 3, no. 2
Date: 2015
Pages: 55-66
Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Special education, Spirituality
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Abstract/Notes: In 1951, Maria Montessori said that there would be a great future for medicine if it started to cure the patients’ souls, rather than just their bodies. What does this statement mean? Medicine has to turn into something different than what it currently is? The aim of this article is to contribute to a possible interpretation of Montessori’s argument, trying to overcome the separation between the medical and the pedagogical meanings of care. Starting from the data gathered through an ethnographical investigation carried out with a Special-Pedagogy perspective in many hospital divisions dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of Rare Illnesses, the author here discusses some critical aspects that affect medical actions of diagnosis and treatment dynamics. In order to set an interdisciplinary dialogue between medicine and pedagogy, this study provides some possible educational horizons for overcoming clinical mechanisms and elements that influence the identity development of the disabled person.
Language: Italian
ISSN: 2282-5061, 2282-6041
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Autonomy, Spontaneity and Creativity in Research with Children. a Study of Experience and Participation, in Central Italy and North West England
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, vol. 23, no. 1
Date: 2020
Pages: 55-74
Autonomy in children, Creative ability in children, Creative thinking in children, England, Europe, Great Britain, Italy, Montessori method of education, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Spontaneity (Personality trait), United Kingdom
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Abstract/Notes: Research involving children, deemed to have difficulties with conventional means of communication, can perpetuate reductive forms of representation of children’s knowledges and experiences. This article focuses on the possibilities and opportunities that visual and creative methods can offer to researching with children. Children advance their views in and through spontaneous and concrete forms of participation. Autonomy in aesthetic acts is central to this methodology; to explore practices that produce and reproduce presuppositions deriving from societal attitudes affecting research with children, their agency and self-presentation. This cross-cultural study was conducted in Central Italy and North West England: children contributed their perspectives and experiences through participation in a series of creative encounters resulting in aesthetic and embodied outcomes of sociological and educational significance. The study contributes to the debate on children’s autonomy and the value and quality of participation through artistic practice. Examples from the corpus of data, which includes a series of artefacts and over 900 photographs from each geo-cultural context, are presented. The study shows that it is possible to harmonise power imbalances in spaces of creative freedom, in research and education, where children’s choices and agency are respected.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672280
ISSN: 1364-5579
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Research and early childhood education programs in the city of Baroda
Available from: Springer Link
Publication: International Journal of Early Childhood, vol. 11, no. 2
Date: 1979
Pages: 176-181
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Abstract/Notes: The growth of the preschool education movement has been a result of the growing recognition of the needs of young children, the need to be provided with a rich and wholesome environment which is conducive to, and promotes the all round development of the child. Prior to 1947, very little attention was paid to preschool education in our country, even by the Government, and preschool was not considered a state responsibility. The Central Advisory Board of Education on Post-War Educational Development (1944) was the first body to recognise the need for preschool education. The report of the Committee emphasised its significance and recommended that an adequate provision of pre-primary education should be an essential adjunct of a National System of Education. The development of preschool education, during the pre-independence period, was rather slow in the country as a whole, but due to the influence of a number of workers inspired by the work of Madam Montessori, pioneering work in the field was undertaken in the state of Gujarat.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1007/BF03176567
ISSN: 0020-7187, 1878-4658
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The Montessori Method: Some Recent Research
Available from: Springer Link
Publication: Interchange, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: 1971
Pages: 41-59
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: This paper on recent research with the Montessori method includes a brief review of this method for educating preschool-age children and criticisms leveled against it, and a review of comparative research studies in relation to several types of non-Montessori preschool programs with economically disadvantaged and middle-class populations. The comparative results are discussed in relation to three kinds of preschool experience: no schooling, traditional early childhoodoriented programs, and structured cognitive-oriented programs. The findings are interpreted in terms of Hunt's conceptual leel matching model.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1007/BF02137791
ISSN: 0826-4805, 1573-1790
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Research on the Impact of the Emotional Expression of Kindergarten Teachers on Children: From the Perspective of the Class Micro-Power Relationship
Available from: Frontiers in Psychology
Publication: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13
Date: 2022
Pages: Article 808847
Asia, China, East Asia, Montessori method of education - Evaluation
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Abstract/Notes: During the preschool years, the socio-emotional responses children receive from interactions with teachers are incorporated into their own social behaviors. This is one of the key ways in which children acquire social and emotional skills. Based on field studies, it can be found that this learning process is not simple imitation of children, but of a more complex context of group interaction. To further clarify the impact of kindergarten teachers’ emotion on the sociometric status and behavior of 3–5 year-old children in their classes, the researchers chose a Montessori mixed-age kindergarten in Beijing as the field site and observed five classes within the kindergarten over a 2-month period in this ethnographic case study. The study found that the power gap between teacher and pupil spreads rapidly to all children in the classroom as a result of the teacher’s emotions, and even stimulates power stratification within the children. In addition, there are differences in the social behaviors between the children of different levels of power. As preschool children are in a critical developmental window when social knowledge is being accumulated and social skills are being acquired, using power relations within the kindergarten classroom as an entry point to analyze the impact of teachers’ emotions on children’s social behavior provides a new breakthrough for the professional development of early childhood education and the better achievement of educational goals.
Language: English
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.808847
ISSN: 1664-1078
Article
Researching Classroom Communications and Relations in the Light of Social Justice
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Educational Action Research, vol. 20, no. 2
Date: 2012
Pages: 251-266
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Abstract/Notes: This article discusses participative action research performed by a network consisting of researchers and student-teachers of a University of Applied Sciences and teachers and pupils of four primary schools in the Netherlands. The research took place in the context of the research group ‘Behaviour and Research in the Educational Praxis’. The primary schools focused on inclusive education in order to allow children with special educational needs to participate in mainstream schools. The central idea of the research project was to integrate the insiders’ perspective of the teachers with the outsiders’ perspective of the university researchers. Therefore, the research project combined process and content goals. The research lasted from September 2008 to June 2010, and consisted of five different stages: orientation, general and specific exploration, reconstruction and overall analysis. This article describes the goals and results of each of these stages. The article concludes with a final discussion on the main findings. An important result included a nuanced view of teachers on their power position in the classroom. Teachers facilitated children to increase their own responsibility for their behaviour and their interaction with their classmates and the teacher. This seemed to provide a basis for a more organic order in the classroom, which was less dependent on the interventions of the teacher.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2012.676302
ISSN: 0965-0792
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Improving the Context for Inclusion: Personalising Teacher Development Through Collaborative Action Research
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Educational Action Research, vol. 20, no. 4
Date: 2012
Pages: 623-624
Article
Research Findings Related to the Montessori Method
Publication: Education (Boston), vol. 68
Date: 1968
Pages: 139-144
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Language: English
ISSN: 0013-1172
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Connecting Montessori Public Policy Research and Advocacy
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 26, no. 1
Date: Spring 2014
Pages: 9
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
What Should Education Research Do, and How Should It Do It?
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Educational Researcher, vol. 37, no. 7
Date: 2008
Pages: 432-438
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Abstract/Notes: In this article, three theoretical perspectives are used to extend Bulterman-Bos's (2008) argument regarding a clinical approach to education research. First, three intellectual virtues identified by Aristotle-episteme, techne, and phronesis-are related to the requirements of the "pure" education researcher, the skilled practitioner, and the clinical researcher, respectively. Second, Churchman's typology of inquiry systems-based on whether the primary source of evidence is logic, observation, representation, dialectic, or values-is offered as a way of conceptualizing different kinds of inquiry in education. Third, recognizing that much practitioner knowledge is tacit, Nonaka and Takeuchi's model of knowledge conversion is suggested as a tool with which knowledge gained through different methods of inquiry might be brought into productive dialogue.
Language: English
ISSN: 0013-189X