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Conference Paper
America's Alternative Schools: Prototypes for New Public Schools
Available from: ERIC
Annual Meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration (Houston, Texas, October 29-31, 1993)
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Abstract/Notes: As prototypes for new forms of education, public and private alternative schools have much to offer regular schools in the way of new ideas. This paper provides an overview of alternative schools and the options available. Alternative schools are characterized by a more selected student body, a smaller and less bureaucratic structure, values derived from within the school community, holistic student work, and a recognition of the school-survival issue. The basic educational frameworks within the array of public alternative school options are identified: (1) the traditional approach; (2) the nontraditional and nongraded approach; (3) schools that focus on the development of student abilities; (4) schools that emphasize techniques for delivering education (rather than philosophy); (5) schools with community-based organizing principles; (6) the self-directed, Montessori-like environment; (7) schools that are intentionally structured for particular student groups; and (8) subcontracted arrangements. In conclusion, alternative schools are flexible and able to respond to students' various needs. (LMI)
Language: English
Published: Houston, Texas: University Council for Educational Administration, Oct 1993
Pages: 19 p.
Article
Frans op de lagere Montessori-school [French at primary Montessori school]
Publication: Montessori Opvoeding, no. 3
Date: 1962
Pages: 23-25
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Language: Dutch
Book
Guidelines for Operating a Montessori School: Standard Operating Procedures for a Montessori School
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Language: English
Published: [S.I.]: Fleege, 1984
Edition: 9. ed
Article
Bluffview Montessori School in Winona, Minnesota–The Nation's First Montessori Charter School
Publication: AMI/USA News, vol. 6, no. 2
Date: Apr 1993
Pages: 12
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Language: English
Article
En el Barrio [East Dallas Community School and Lindsley Park Community School, Dallas, TX]
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 16, no. 1
Date: 2007
Pages: 47–49
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Doctoral Dissertation
Skolans Levda Rum och Lärandets Villkor: Meningsskapande i Montessoriskolans Fysiska Miljö [The School's Living Space and the Conditions of Learning: Creating Meaning in the Montessori School's Physical Environment]
Architecture, Design, Environment, Europe, Nordic countries, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Sweden
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Abstract/Notes: This study examines the school’s physical environment as a place of learning, and takes its starting point in the phenomenology movement, inspired both by Merleau-Ponty’s thesis of man’s physical relation to the world and by the existential analysis represented by Heidegger which implies a mutual relationship between man and the world. Such a view rejects a standpoint which describes man as being divided between a material body and a thinking soul. Instead, there emerges an embodied self which engages in meaningful interaction with its surroundings. The choice of this standpoint has implications for the design of the school’s physical environment. Montessori pedagogy is one of the activity-based pedagogies which have designed the physical environment in line with this theory. The purpose of the study is to understand, but further to visualise, the way in which the conditions for learning for children and adolescents are created in schools, from pre-school to lower secondary level, which follow the Montessori pedagogy. The material for the empirical study has been gathered from Europe and the US and from differing social contexts. The reason for this is to discover what distinguishes the prepared environment. The study also discusses the way in which the argument for a form of schooling which is based on activity, from the early 20th century to the present day, has been addressed through the architectural design of schools. The thesis shows that the rich array of didactic material in the schools observed offers pupils the opportunity to perform activities which create meaning. The organisation of the environment provides the pupils with the necessary conditions to concentrate fully on their work and to complete their tasks without interruption. I see the didactic continuity which prevails from pre-school to the lower secondary school in the Montessori schools studied as a prerequisite if the pedagogical activity is to offer meaning and create the conditions for learning in the way demonstrated by the empirical studies.
Language: Swedish
Published: Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
Article
The Montessori Land School: The Root and Branch of Lake Country School
Publication: Communications: Journal of the Association Montessori Internationale (2009-2012), vol. 2011, no. 1-2
Date: 2011
Pages: 176–184
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Language: English
ISSN: 1877-539X
Article
District discusses opening different kind of school; Okemos reviews Montessori plan; Public school awaits older kids
Available from: Newspapers.com
Publication: Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan)
Date: Apr 15, 2002
Pages: 1A
Americas, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools - Photographs, North America, Public Montessori, United States of America
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Language: English
Article
News from AMS-Affiliated Schools: Pines Montessori School, Kingwood, TX, Recognized by Private School Recognition Program
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 13, no. 3
Date: Summer 1986
Pages: 19
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
Article
IMS Montessori Schools [Profiles of 7 Schools]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: Mar 1982
Pages: 1, 3-4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643