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Doctoral Dissertation
A Hermeneutic Exploration: Designing Grassroots Montessori Teacher Education Courses for Resource Limited Communities
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
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Abstract/Notes: This study documents a Montessori teacher education program in three Nicaraguan villages. In each village, the researcher observed the implementation of a teacher education program designed by Montessori Phoenix Projects, and carried out research conversations with local participants. The data collection process spanned a period of one and one-half years. The resulting framework is designed to inform the implementation of grassroots teacher education courses serving resource-limited communities. The framework presents learning points essential for teacher education programs appropriate to childhood education within the Montessori tradition in resource-limited communities. These points include creating context, identifying breakdowns, generating possibility, and using a mimetic construct of time in curriculum development. Additionally, the results of this research offer insights for evaluation, arguments for the essential incorporation of tradition in socioeducational development, and methods in which collaboration with community members, NGOs, and educational authorities can move beyond the limitations of traditional forms of development. The works of Arendt, Gadamer, Geertz, Habermas, Herda, and Ricoeur inform the research and analysis. The research framework is comprised of the theoretical constructs of breakdowns (Arendt 1961), mimesis (Ricoeur 1984), and dissipation (Janstch 1980). Within this framework ontological resources are brought to light and serve as the progenesis to make new the old environment and bring imagined worlds of possibility to life. By converting breakdowns into new, recognizable forms through everyday language, options carrying hope for the future become visible. A critical aspect of these options involves understanding another's world. This study presents a unique model for making a difference in the lives of people who live in culturally diverse communities. Moreover, the model is not burdened by the traditional budget and personnel restraints associated with most development models. The framework presented in this dissertation may assist education reform consultants who work in developing countries and who are committed to give a voice to those people who commonly are not heard.
Language: English
Published: San Francisco, California, 2002
Book Section
Comunità contadine e istruzione professionale [Peasant communities and vocational education]
Book Title: L'orientamento professionale come educazione civica: atti del 5. Congresso nazionale Montessori, Messina, 19-21 settembre 1959 [Professional guidance as civic education: proceedings of the 5th Montessori National Congress, Messina, 19-21 September 1959]
Pages: 283-297
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Language: Italian
Published: Roma, Italy: Vita dell'infanzia, 1960
Article
In Support of Strong Communities
Publication: Forza Vitale!, vol. 22, no. 1
Date: 2002
Pages: 10
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Language: English
Article
Montessori Schools Are Communities Built on Trust, Friendship and Mutual Respect
Publication: Montessori Leadership, vol. 2, no. 1
Date: 2000
Pages: 29
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Language: English
Article
Measuring Equity in Montessori Communities
Available from: MontessoriPublic
Publication: Montessori Public, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: Spring 2019
Pages: 3, 15
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Language: English
Article
From Children's House to Adolescent Communities: Montessori Extends through High School
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 24, no. 4
Date: Nov 2016
Pages: 6–9
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Abstract/Notes: includes photos
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
The Bridge between Happy Families and Healthy Communities
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 23, no. 1
Date: Nov 2014
Pages: 32–33
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Abstract/Notes: includes photos
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Breakaway Charters Roil Two Communities [Carbondale, Colorado: Charter Linked to 'Segregation'; Juneau, Alaska: Foes Criticize 'Unified' Program as 'Elitist']
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 17, no. 4
Date: Summer 2005
Pages: 15
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Abstract/Notes: Part of a special section on No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Creating Inclusive Communities Through Pedagogy at Three Elementary Schools
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: School Effectiveness and School Improvement, vol. 24, no. 3
Date: 2013
Pages: 336-356
Article
Resilient Communities: An Ecological Perspective
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 39, no. 1
Date: Winter 2014
Pages: 81-88
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Tom Wessel's view of interdependent local ecologies lays out a conceptual framework for human communities and corporations. His rich examples of biodiversity provide great metaphors for how competition and negative conditions can be transformed by natural cooperation and can lead to self-organized, self-managed natural communities that are sustained by emergent systems and can co-evolve. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled "Nature and Human Development," Seattle, WA, March 10-13, 2011.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734