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The Effect of Montessori Method on 4-5 years old Preschool Children's Creativity in Tabriz
Available from: Journal of Instruction and Evaluation
Publication: Journal of Instruction and Evaluation / Amuzish va Arzishyabi, vol. 7, no. 28
Date: 2014
Pages: 81-98
Asia, Iran, Middle East, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the Montessori Method of education on 4-5 years old preschool children's creativity in Tabriz. The data were gathered through a quasi – experimental research with pre-test, post-test, and control group, administering Torrance pictorial from B test. The statistical population of the study included all educational centers of 4-5 year old children, which comprised 500 preschools in the academic year 92-93. The research sample of the present study included 50 preschoolers (25 in the experimental group and 25 in the control group) who were selected randomly through cluster sampling. The Montessori Method of education was employed for three months. After that, the data was gathered and analyzed through Covariance method. The results indicated that the Montessori Method of education was effective on the 4-5 year old children's creativity. Regarding four dimensions of creativity, Montessori Method was effective in enhancing the dimensions of fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration in children.
Language: Persian
ISSN: 2345-6299, 2476-5627
Article
Preschoolers′ Strategic Behavior and Performance on a Same-Different Task
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 60, no. 2
Date: 1995
Pages: 284-303
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Abstract/Notes: Preschoolers′ strategic behavior was examined on a task in which they must decide whether two arrays are the same. Fifty-six 3- and 4-year-olds selected doors to open which exposed parts of the arrays. Children made moderate use of an appropriate "vertical-pairs" strategy-viewing spatially corresponding parts of the two arrays-and it facilitated performance. Telling nonstrategic children to use the strategy or executing it for them improved their same-different judgments. However, increased spontaneous production of the vertical-pairs strategy over trials did not consistently improve judgments, which suggests a strategy utilization deficiency. Other microgenetic analyses revealed that children tended to use several strategies over the trials and that strategy changes often were not developmentally progressive or driven by failure of another strategy. The discussion addressed production and utilization deficiencies and the diversity of strategy development.
Language: English
ISSN: 0022-0965
Book
The Montessori Approach and the Education of the Deaf Preschool-Child: Can This Approach, Based on Intrinsic Motivation and That Prepares the Environment for Intentionality in Learning, Aid Cognitive Development and Therefore General Development?
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Language: English, Norwegian
Published: [Oslo, Norway]: Statens spesiallärerhögskole, 1982
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The Significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to Children in Preschool and School
Book Title: The Child and Communication: 22nd International Montessori Congress, Uppsala, July 22-27, 1997
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (22nd, Uppsala, Sweden, 22-27 July 1997), United Nations
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Language: English
Published: [S.I.]: [s.n.], 1997
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Koncepcja Marii Montessori a rozwój umiejętności samoobsługowych dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym / The Concept of Maria Montessori and the Development of Self-Care Skills in Children of Preschool Age
Available from: Index Copernicus International
Publication: Pedagogika Przedszkolna i Wczesnoszkolna [Pre-School and Early School Education], vol. 6, no. 2 (whole no. 12)
Date: 2018
Pages: 257-269
Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: The development of self-care skills in children is a part of the Core curriculum for preschool education. The contents regarding formation of such skills include shaping hygiene practices, goodhabits and developing motor skills. Maria Montessori drew attention to the development of selfcare skills and functional independence. In her concept of preschool child education, Maria Montessori developed practical life activities which were intended to serve the development of specificskills and their application to everyday life. Therefore, the aim of the research was to identify thelevel of self-care skills in 4-year-old children attending selected kindergartens located in MińskMazowiecki and Siedlce. The research was conducted on 200 children from Non-public CreativeActivity Montessori Kindergarten ‘Zameczek’ in Siedlce, Non-public Montessori Kindergarten‘Delfinek’ in Mińsk Mazowiecki and 6 traditional kindergartens — 2 of which were located inMińsk Mazowiecki and 4 located in Siedlce. The obtained research results indicated a varied levelof self-care skills depending on kindergarten the children attended.
Language: Polish
ISSN: 2353-7140, 2353-7159
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Matematika u Predškolskom i Školskom Razdoblju Prema Mariji Montessori [Mathematics in Preschool and School Years According to Maria Montessori]
Available from: Hrčak - Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals
Publication: Poučak: časopis za metodiku i nastavu matematike, vol. 19, no. 75
Date: 2018
Pages: 42-56
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Language: Croatian
ISSN: 1332-3008, 1849-1650
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Preschool Experience in 10 Countries: Cognitive and Language Performance at Age 7
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3
Date: 2006
Pages: 313-331
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Abstract/Notes: The IEA Preprimary Project is a longitudinal, cross-national study of preprimary care and education designed to identify how process and structural characteristics of the settings children attended at age 4 are related to their age-7 cognitive and language performance. Investigators collaborated to develop common instruments to measure family background, teachers’ characteristics, setting structural characteristics, experiences of children in settings, and children’s developmental status. Data from 10 countries are included in the analysis; in most countries, the sample of settings is representative of preprimary settings in that country. For the analysis, a 3-level hierarchical linear model was employed that allowed decomposition of variation of child outcomes into three parts—variation among children within settings, among settings within countries, and among countries. Four findings are consistent across all of the countries included. Age-7 language improves as teachers’ number of years of full-time schooling increases and the predominant type of activity teachers propose in settings is free choice rather than personal/social. Age-7 cognitive performance improves as children spend less time in whole group activities and the variety of equipment and materials available increases. There were also a number of findings that varied across countries depending on particular country characteristics. The findings support child-initiated activities and small group activities and are consistent with developmentally appropriate practices promoting active learning.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.07.007
ISSN: 0885-2006, 1873-7706
Article
IES Arrow-Dot Longitudinal Study of Personality Development in Preschool Children
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: Feb 1975
Pages: 209-210
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Abstract/Notes: Preschool children were administered the IES Arrow-Dot at the beginning and end of the school year and scores compared with those based on a prior study in a Montessori preschool. Developmental trends of declining Impulsivity and rising Ego scores were corroborated. Superego development remained almost stable in contrast to a significant rise for the Montessori sample. Results support effective use of the test with preschoolers to assess baselines and developmental patterns of personality integration.
Language: English
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1975.40.1.209
ISSN: 1558-688X, 0031-5125
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IES Arrow-Dot Performance in Two Montessori Preschools
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 29, no. 1
Date: 1969
Pages: 235-239
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Abstract/Notes: Preschool children attending two Montessori schools (26 boys, 23 girls at School A; 33 boys, 33 girls at School B) were administered the IES Arrow-Dot Test along with several other psychological tests in order to establish preliminary preschool norms and to test the hypothesis that I-scores would decline, while E- and S-scores would rise over ages 3 to 6. The data supported the hypothesis; however, there were clear differences between the two schools which indicated that much more than age and IQ were determining the level and pattern of the scores.
Language: English
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1969.29.1.235
ISSN: 1558-688X, 0031-5125
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Perceptual-Motor Training and Improvement in Concentration in a Montessori Preschool
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 32, no. 1
Date: Feb 1971
Pages: 71-77
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Abstract/Notes: 25 children in a morning class of a Montessori preschool were administered a program of perceptual-motor training which stressed control of impulsiveness and development of attentional skills. 24 children in the afternoon class were controls. All children were administered a battery of psychological tests prior to training and again 7 mo. later at the termination of the training. All the children (both groups) exhibited a mean 12- to 13-point gain in Peabody Picture Vocabulary IQ and a mean 13- to 14-point gain in Draw-A-Person IQ. In addition, experimental Ss exhibited mean gains on the Auditoryvocal and Visual-motor Sequential subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and in Ego-control scores of the Arrow-Dot Test. Controls showed no such gains. It is concluded that the perceptual-motor training program might supply a useful adjunct to the regular Montessori curriculum.
Language: English
ISSN: 1558-688X, 0031-5125