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Conference Paper
Freeing the child's response-ability: Celebrating the natural genius of children
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Language: English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts: AMI-USA, 2000
Pages: 64-67
Article
The Effects of Three Different Educational Approaches on Children's Drawing Ability: Steiner, Montessori, and Traditional
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: British Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 70, no. 4
Date: 2000
Pages: 485-503
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Abstract/Notes: Although there is a national curriculum for art education in the UK there are also alternative approaches in the private sector. This paper addresses the issue of the effect of these approaches on children's drawing ability. Aim. To compare the drawing ability in three drawing tasks of children in Steiner, Montessori and traditional schools. Sample. The participants were 60 school children between the ages of 5;11 and 7;2. Twenty children were tested in each type of school. Method. Each child completed three drawings: a free drawing, a scene and an observational drawing. Results. As predicted, the free and scene drawings of children in the Steiner school were rated more highly than those of children in Montessori and traditional schools. Steiner children's use of colour was also rated more highly, although they did not use more colours than the other children. Steiner children used significantly more fantasy topics in their free drawings. Further observation indicated that the Steiner children were better at using the whole page and organising their drawings into a scene; their drawings were also more detailed. Contrary to previous research Montessori children did not draw more inanimate objects and geometrical shapes or fewer people than other children. Also, contrary to the prediction, Steiner children were significantly better rather than worse than other children at observational drawing. Conclusion. The results suggest that the approach to art education in Steiner schools is conducive not only to more highly rated imaginative drawings in terms of general drawing ability and use of colour but also to more accurate and detailed observational drawings.
Language: English
ISSN: 2044-8279, 0007-0998
Book Section
A Bibliography on Children for Parents, Focusing Upon Special Children
Book Title: Montessori and the Special Child
Pages: 150-152
Bibliographies, Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Montessori method of education, Special education
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Language: English
Published: New York: Putnam, 1969
Article
Gardening with Children: Children Helping Nature
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 4, no. 3
Date: 1996
Pages: 23
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
English with Non-English Children in a Montessori House of Children [1]
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 3
Date: 1958
Pages: 80-84
Children's House (Casa dei Bambini)
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
Article
Parent Enrollment at Model Children's House [Powder Mill Children's House, Beltsville, Maryland]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 11, no. 6
Date: Nov 1990
Pages: 1, 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
Article
Spaces for Children: Listing to Young Children about Their Early Childhood Environments
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 84
Date: Jul 2007
Pages: 16–17
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Article
Guiding Children 'Back from the Edge' Preparing an Environment to Support Children at Risk
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 42, no. 2
Date: 2017
Pages: 169-190
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: "The children who demand more attention than others, who are disruptive, unmotivated, oppositional, aggressive, or do not give us the positive feedback we get from others…This is where we dig in and find compassion, and understanding, and the knowledge that no child wants to be disruptive, oppositional, or aggressive. They do this because they are hurt, and we are here to help." Sarah Werner Andrews provides an approach to the children who pose a challenge because they themselves are facing challenges. She offers practical tools and approaches that are first based on positive relationships, then on the relationship with the environment, and finally on positive, collaborative interventions. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled "Children on the Edge: Creating a Path for Happy, Healthy Development," January 12-15, 2017 in New Orleans, LA.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
Montessori Elementary Is Different: What Children Study, What Children Do
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 15, no. 2
Date: Spring 2003
Pages: 8-10
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Montessori Children Grow Up: Why I Was a Montessori Child and Why My Children Are Now
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 28, no. 2
Date: 2004
Pages: 8–10
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Language: English