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Article
Level 5 Children Create Web Pages
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 27, no. 2
Date: 2003
Pages: 7–13
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Language: English
Article
Gardening with Children: Winter
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 2, no. 6
Date: Dec 1994
Pages: 24
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Book
Early Childhood Bilingualism in the Montessori Children's House: Guessable Context and the Planned Environment
Available from: ERIC
Bilingual education, Bilingualism, Language experience approach in education
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Abstract/Notes: The language immersion approach of the Intercultural Montessori School (Oak Park, Illinois) for children aged 2-6 years is described and discussed. An introductory section gives background information on early work with immersion by Maria Montessori, a personal experience leading to the school's establishment, and the response of language and education professionals, the public, and parents to the concept of preschool immersion. Subsequent sections discuss common patterns in the students' language learning experience at the school and the developmental stages the learners went through as the experiment progressed: pre-production; early production; speech emergence; and intermediate fluency. Anecdotal information about specific students and events are used for illustration. Observations about comprehensible input and the Montessori manipulables, whole language, and other instructional strategies are included. Specific recommendations are made for content and classroom procedures in early childhood immersion, based on this experience. The paper concludes with reflections on the potential of this environment for development of bilingualism.
Language: English
Published: Oak Park, Illinois: InterCultura Montessori School, 1997
Article
Science and Culture Around the Montessori's First "Children's Houses" in Rome (1907-1915)
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 44, no. 3
Date: 2008
Pages: 238-257
Europe, Italy, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Between 1907 and 1908, Maria Montessori's (1870–1952) educational method was elaborated at the Children's Houses of the San Lorenzo district in Rome. This pioneering experience was the basis for the international fame that came to Montessori after the publication of her 1909 volume dedicated to her “Method.” The “Montessori Method” was considered by some to be scientific, liberal, and revolutionary. The present article focuses upon the complex contexts of the method's elaboration. It shows how the Children's Houses developed in relation to a particular scientific and cultural eclecticism. It describes the factors that both favored and hindered the method's elaboration, by paying attention to the complex network of social, institutional, and scientific relationships revolving around the figure of Maria Montessori. A number of “contradictory” dimensions of Montessori's experience are also examined with a view to helping to revise her myth and offering the image of a scholar who was a real early-twentieth-century prototype of a “multiple” behavioral scientist.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20313
ISSN: 1520-6696
Book
The Mass Explained to Children
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2015
ISBN: 978-90-79506-19-4
Series: The Montessori Series , 19
Book
The Mass Explained to Children
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Language: English
Published: Ridgefield, Connecticut: Roman Catholic Books, 1998
Article
How Children Find Something To Do in Preschools
Publication: Genetic Psychology Monographs, vol. 90, no. 2
Date: 1974
Pages: 245-303
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Abstract/Notes: Conducted a 2-year observational study of a total of 81 lower- and middle-class 3-6 year olds to examine the behavior of young children in school settings which program all or part of the day as "free play" time. Results indicate that with age, children became more effective in moving from one activity to another; they spent less time in transition and longer periods in activity. Behaviors exhibited while in transition became less dependent on the immediate surrounding and seemed to indicate more autonomy. Lower-class boys had shorter activity lengths and more transitions than the other groups. A qualitative description of children's transition behavior is presented and possible implications of the findings for developmental and educational research are discussed.
Language: English
ISSN: 0016-6677
Article
Montessori and the Compulsive Cleanliness of Severely Retarded Children
Publication: Bulletin of Art Therapy, vol. 4
Date: 1965
Pages: 139-148
Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Lena L. Gitter - Writings, Montessori method of education
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Language: English
ISSN: 0163-318X
Article
Children Need Protection from Harmful Solar Rays!
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 27, no. 2
Date: 2003
Pages: 4–5
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Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation
'My Self-Image and Your Interactions': The Influence of the Preschool Educator's Image of the Child as a Learner on Children's Wellbeing and Involvement
Americas, Comparative education, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Europe, Ireland, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North America, Northern Europe, Play, Reggio Emilia approach (Early childhood education)
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Abstract/Notes: The introduction in 2011 of a universal free preschool year for all children in Ireland prior to attending primary school was heralded as a significant commitment to children and families. As a result of this policy initiative there are increasing numbers of young children accessing preschool provision. However, despite increased access and increased investment in ECEC provision, little is known about the quality of preschool children’s experiences, or the impact of the pedagogical approach on children’s levels of wellbeing and involvement in their learning. Equally there has been no evaluation of the quality or the effectiveness of the preschool provision in supporting children’s development of 21st century skills. This thesis explores how the preschool educator’s image of the child as a learner influences her/his pedagogical approach and how the educator’s pedagogical approach subsequently impacts on children’s levels of wellbeing and involvement in their meaning making processes. The study, an ethnographic comparative study, was conducted across three preschool setting types, Montessori, Play-based and Reggio inspired in the west of Ireland and Boston. The findings identify that children’s levels of wellbeing and involvement are high when their basic needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness are met in an autonomy supportive, child-centred learning environment. In comparison, when the learning environment is controlling and the approach to teaching and learning is didactic and adult-led, children’s levels of wellbeing and involvement are low. These findings have significant implications for policy and practice and provide a compelling argument for the evaluation of the quality of preschool provision in Ireland.
Language: English
Published: Galway, Ireland, 2020