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Primary Schools [Stepping Stones, North Western, Southside Primary School, Forestville Montessori School]
Publication: Montessori Matters, no. 1
Date: 1985
Pages: 7
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Montessori schools, Oceania
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Language: English
Article
Families Working with Schools, Schools Working with Families, a Family-School Partnership
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 6, no. 1
Date: 1994
Pages: 5
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Abstract/Notes: Draft AMS position paper
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
A Middle School Model [School of the Woods, Houston, Texas]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 1, no. 4
Date: Summer 1989
Pages: 8
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Multilingualism in a Montessori Preschool: A Study of Language Variability in a Linguistically Diverse Preschool Programme
Available from: IndianJournals
Publication: Journal of Exclusion Studies, vol. 9, no. 2
Date: 2019
Pages: 111-131
Asia, Bilingualism, India, Multilingualism, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: This article is based on a study of an ‘English-medium’ preschool programme for underprivileged children. The diverse linguistic backgrounds of the teachers and students prompted an enquiry into how multiple languages would be negotiated in the setting and how comprehension, learning and communication would occur given that none of the children came from English-speaking homes. The article identifies and interprets key features of verbal language that were observed in the setting and articulates implications for educational practice.
Language: English
DOI: 10.5958/2231-4555.2019.00009.3
ISSN: 2231-4547, 2231-4555
Article
School Focus: Treetops Montessori School [Darlington, Western Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 2002
Pages: 17–18
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Language: English
Blog Post
Are Montessori Schools Better Than Public Schools?
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Abstract/Notes: Dr. Angeline Lillard discusses her new research on the benefits of a Montessori education.
Language: English
Published: Dec 16, 2021
Report
Primary School, School-Based Decision Making, Family Resource/Youth Services Centers: First Year Reports to the Prichard Committee
Available from: ERIC
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Abstract/Notes: These three reports by national consultants assess first year progress in implementing state mandated educational reforms in Kentucky. First, "The Status of Primary School Reform in Kentucky and Its Implications," by James Rath, Lilian Katz, and John Fanning, reports on site visits to 14 public schools to assess progress in implementing the Kentucky Educational Reform Act (KERA) in primary schools. Findings with respect to the introduction of cooperative learning, developmentally appropriate practice, authentic assessment, parent involvement, and multi-age grouping practices are presented, along with administrators', parents', and teachers' views about KERA mandates. Next, "School-Based Decision Making: Observations on Progress," by Jane L. David, presents results of interviews with Kentucky education officials, school visits, and a review of newspaper articles and other documents. The report indicates that as of June 1992, almost 500 of Kentucky's 1,366 schools had councils for
Language: English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky, Jul 1992
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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
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Seeking Racial and Ethnic Parity in Preschool Outcomes: An Exploratory Study of Public Montessori Schools vs. Business-as-Usual Schools
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 9, no. 1
Date: 2023
Pages: 16-36
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Abstract/Notes: Montessori pedagogy is a century-old, whole-school system increasingly used in the public sector. In the United States, public Montessori schools are typically Title I schools that mostly serve children of color. The present secondary, exploratory data analysis examined outcomes of 134 children who entered a lottery for admission to public Montessori schools in the northeastern United States at age 3; half were admitted and enrolled and the rest enrolled at other preschool programs. About half of the children were identified as White, and half were identified as African American, Hispanic, or multiracial. Children were tested in the fall when they enrolled and again in the subsequent three springs (i.e., through the kindergarten year) on a range of measures addressing academic outcomes, executive function, and social cognition. Although the Black, Hispanic, and multiracial group tended to score lower in the beginning of preschool in both conditions, by the end of preschool, the scores of Black, Hispanic, and multiracial students enrolled in Montessori schools were not different from the White children; by contrast, such students in the business-as-usual schools continued to perform less well than White children in academic achievement and social cognition. The study has important limitations that lead us to view these findings as exploratory, but taken together with other findings, the results suggest that Montessori education may create an environment that is more conducive to racial and ethnic parity than other school environments.
Language: English
ISSN: 2378-3923
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]
Available from: DiVA Portal
Architecture, Design, Environment, Europe, 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