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Whitby School: Catholic Laymen Follow the Montessori Method in a New Venture in American Education
Publication: Jubilee, vol. 6
Date: Feb 1959
Pages: 21-27
Americas, Montessori method of education, North America, Religious education, United States of America, Whitby School
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Language: English
ISSN: 0449-3486
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
Dr. Montessori in America
Available from: Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Publication: New York Tribune (New York, New York)
Date: Dec 4, 1913
Pages: 8
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Language: English
ISSN: 1941-0646
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.)
American Muslim Tarbiya: Parents, Experts, ʿUlamāʾ, and Debates about Mothering
Available from: Knowledge UChicago
Islamic Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: This dissertation accounts for debates around correct American Muslim mothering in the 21st century. It centers around the following underlying questions: What advice do Muslim modernists and Sunni ʿulamāʾ offer to mothers for raising Muslims in the limited, privatized spaces of their nurseries, homes, and mosque communities? How do Muslim mothers who desire to rear children communally, in harmony with their fiṭra (innate nature) and according to traditional notions of tarbiya (development, education) accomplish this as religious minorities in a hyper capitalist, secular modern context? What are the different ways that mothers negotiate the ideas of Muslim advice-givers, which sometimes clash both internally and with the diverse opinions of American pediatricians, psychologists, and neuroscientists? This study considers the nuanced impact secular modernity, feminism, and the expanding authority of the medical and psy disciplines have had on American Muslim child-rearing practices, reconfigurations of gender roles in Muslim families and the intergenerational transmission of American Islam. To gauge this impact, this dissertation narrowly focuses on two highly contested decisions mothers make in early childhood: how to feed infants after birth and whether to corporally punish young children. The data for this project was collected from in-depth fieldwork interviews with a diverse sample of Muslim mothers conducted in 2017 in the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. This data was analyzed by situating the types of religious and parenting education mothers had both received and sought out and by surveying the Islamic scriptural and jurisprudential texts, contemporary childrearing manuals, and social media sources that informed their child-rearing practices. This dissertation found that most mothers were much more likely to formula feed or breastfeed their infants themselves than allow other mothers to nurse their children. None of my interlocutors engaged wet nurses or used donated human milk for infant feeding. Additionally, most mothers disapproved of using corporal punishment for children’s discipline, either by themselves or others in loco parentis. Corporal punishment of children was increasingly viewed not as one method among many to cultivate children’s embodiment of ritual practices, but as child abuse. However, a minority of mothers demonstrated an openness to sharing milk and employing constrained forms of physical discipline in specific circumstances. In investigating the ever-shifting child-rearing advice from religious scholars (ʿulamāʾ), non-Muslim scientific experts, and a hybridized class of Muslim parent educators, this dissertation offers another avenue for understanding the fragmented nature of religious authority in American Muslim communities. It contributes to the growing body of scholarship that tracks the rising popularity of Sunnī rationalism and traditionalism by noting the way it attracts mothers who long for styles of parenting that are more shared and communal and less demanding and intensive. Finally, this dissertation affords insights into ongoing contestation over what constitutes correct, ethical tarbiya and how best to integrate and transmit American Islam
Language: English
Published: Chicago, Illinois, 2023
Article
Il metodo Montessori in Italia e in America
Publication: La Nostra Rivista, no. 7
Date: 1914
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Language: Italian
Book Section
Il metodo Montessori in Italia e in America
Book Title: Metodi e problemi di educazione infantile
Pages: 5-14
Americas, Europe, Italy, North America, Southern Europe, United States of America
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Language: Italian
Published: Milano: Dante Alighieri, 1932
Article
Dr. Montessori's Visit to America
Publication: Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, vol. 14
Date: Jan 9, 1914
Pages: 428-429
Americas, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
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Montessori and the American Child: What Teachers and Mothers Say
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Delineator, vol. 84, no. 4
Date: Apr 1914
Pages: 76
Americas, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
Book
Environments for Learning: Proceedings of the American Montessori Society 1971 Seminar
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: American Montessori Society, 1972
Book
Proceedings of the International Symposium, American College of Greece, Athens, August 13-15, 1979
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: American Montessori Society, 1980