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Adult Leadership and the Development of Children's Spirituality: Exploring Montessori's Concept of the Prepared Environment
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: International Journal of Children's Spirituality, vol. 24, no. 4
Date: 2019
Pages: 356-370
Classroom environments, Learning environments, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prepared environment, Spirituality
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Abstract/Notes: This article explores Montessori’s concept of the Prepared Environment, which includes adult leadership, as an important contribution to the field of Children’s Spirituality. Montessori elevated the spiritual development of children to a central place in social life. She advocated preparation of the teacher as a community leader who works through the environment to guide a pedagogically-oriented process that underpins spiritual development. This model of leadership offers the child a reciprocal relationship with the Prepared Environment, which operates as the child’s true teacher. The preparation of the adult, as an element of the Prepared Environment, has a spiritual tone and is a key aspect of Montessori science and philosophy, designed to support the holistic development of the child as both a hope and a promise for human beings.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2019.1685949
ISSN: 1364-436X
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Squares or Calla Lilies for Children's Studies: Montessori Methods of Training the Child Mind Called Prosaic by Ardent Defender of the Poetry of Froebel
Available from: Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Publication: New York Tribune (New York, New York)
Date: Jan 15, 1913
Pages: 7
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Language: English
ISSN: 1941-0646
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The Need to Bridge the Gap Between Research on Children's Rights and Parenting Styles: Authoritative/Democratic Style as an Acultural Model for the Child's Well-Being
Available from: MDPI
Publication: Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 1
Date: 2023
Pages: Article 22
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Abstract/Notes: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains specific provisions on parent–child relations and parenting, but these provisions can be described as elusive. Furthermore, the Convention does not explicitly specify a children’s-rights-friendly parenting style. On the other hand, there is a disconnect between research on children’s rights and parenting styles. Based on the insights of the meta-theoretical critical realist approach, this paper argues that universal human flourishing is inconceivable without the development of a children’s-rights-friendly parenting style. It is argued that the Convention’s provisions on parent–child relations can be adapted to the perceptions of average parents, especially living in paternalistic societies, by adapting the conceptualizations of parenting styles developed by Baumrind and Lakoff. Overall, research on children’s rights, supported by literature on children’s-rights-friendly parenting, can show that children’s rights do not alienate parental rights and responsibilities. Instead, children’s rights give appropriate direction to parental authority and responsibility to realize the child’s well-being.
Language: English
ISSN: 2076-0760
Article
Expanding Montessori Education - Children's House of Montessori School in New Orleans to include students through the fourth grade
Publication: New Orleans Magazine, vol. 20
Date: 1986
Pages: 24
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Language: English
ISSN: 0894-4555
Article
Links Between Communication Patterns in Mother-Child, Father-Child, and Child-Peer Interactions and Children's Social Status
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Child Development, vol. 66, no. 1
Date: 1995
Pages: 255-271
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Abstract/Notes: In this study, we examined communication in the family and peer systems in relation to children's sociometric status. Codes measured turn-taking skills and utterance types for 43 children (ages 24-60 months) with mothers, fathers, and peers. Communication differences in the family and peer systems were strongest for popular versus rejected status children and their parents, but differences were also found for controversial and neglected status children and their parents. Rejected status children demonstrated turn-taking styles that included irrelevant turns, interruptions, simultaneous talking, and noncontingent responding. Parents of rejected children used higher proportions of requests than parents of popular children but failed to allow their children time to respond to the requests. Popular status children were more likely to alternate turns, provide explanations to peers, and participate in episodes of cohesive discourse. Interaction patterns were examined for potential mechanisms of transfer between family and peer systems.
Language: English
DOI: 10.2307/1131204
ISSN: 0009-3920
Book
Gharamam balamandira / घरमें बालमंदिर [Children's House at Home]
Asia, India, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., South Asia
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Language: Gujarati
Published: [India], 1962
Article
Effects of Variations in the Nursery School Setting on Environmental Constraints and Children's Modes of Adaptation
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Child Development, vol. 42, no. 3
Date: Sep 1971
Pages: 839-869
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Abstract/Notes: This study asked how specific characteristics of preschool settings affect the naturalistic occurrence of environmental constraints and children's adaptations to them. A taxonomy of 7 varieties of constraints invented by Jackson and Wolfson (1968) and a taxonomy of 14 adaptations were used. The constraints conformed to Schoggen's (1963) definition of conflict environmental force units (conflict EFU). 2 middle-class nursery schools and 2 Head Start programs were studied. These environments enabled the effects of several ecological variables- structure of the daily program, spaciousness of the schoolroom, and teacher-children ratio-and several personal variables-age, sex, and social class -on the incidence of conflict EFU and adaptations to be determined. Differential linkages of the adaptations with varieties of conflict EFU were also examined. The environmental variable which differentiated preschool settings was the program structure, and significant effects for age, sex, and social class were also found.
Language: English
DOI: 10.2307/1127453
ISSN: 0009-3920, 1467-8624
Article
Second Language Corner for Children's House: A Practitioner–Researcher Journey Into Bilingualism in Montessori Education
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 7, no. 1
Date: 2021
Pages: 67-82
Americas, Bilingualism, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico, Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: This work reports, from a qualitative research perspective, the development of an English Corner project for a preschool Children’s House classroom in central Mexico over the course of a 3-year period. It shows the transition of a language specialist over six consecutive periods of work, from a traditional understanding and practice of teaching English as a second language to young learners into a more comprehensive one of the Montessori Method. The analysis of my own practice is used to recover insights through a reflective process with the intention to develop a second language (L2) Montessori program for 3- to 6-year-olds that aligns better with Montessori pedagogy. Variables such as instruction time, setting, group constitution, materials, and teaching and learning strategies allowed for certain aspects to arise as leading points of interest for the focus of the analysis and the methodological and pedagogical adaptations that followed each period. This paper is an attempt to fill the gap between the need to deliver a second language effectively in Montessori education and the lack of guidance for doing it the Montessori way; it is especially for practitioners who do not have a Montessori background but also for Montessori-trained teachers for whom more specific preparation would aid their practice. I also hope to stimulate further research in the field of second language acquisition and multilingualism in Montessori education at every level of education.
Language: English
ISSN: 2378-3923
Article
The Magic School Bus Dilemma: How Fantasy Affects Children's Learning from Stories
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 210
Date: Oct 1, 2021
Pages: Article 105212
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Fantasy in children
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Abstract/Notes: Although children’s books often include fantasy, research suggests that children do not learn as well from fantastical stories as from realistic ones. The current studies investigated whether the type of fantasy matters, in effect testing two possible mechanisms for fantasy’s interference. Across two studies, 110 5-year-olds were read different types of fantastical stories containing a problem and then were asked to solve an analogous problem in a real lab setting. Children who were read a minimally fantastical version of the story, in which the story occurred on another planet “that looked just like Earth,” were no more likely to transfer the solution than children who heard a story that was slightly more fantastical in that the story occurred on another planet and that planet looked different from Earth (e.g., orange grass, a green sky). In contrast, significantly higher rates of learning were observed when the story contained those elements and two physically impossible events (e.g., walking through walls). Furthermore, this improvement was obtained only when the impossible events preceded, and not when they followed, the educational content. Although fantasy may sometimes detract from learning (as other research has shown), these new studies suggest that minimal fantasy does not and that particular types of fantasy may even increase learning. We propose that the mechanism for this may be that a small dose of impossible events induces deeper processing of the subsequent events in the story.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105212
ISSN: 0022-0965
Article
Montessorian to Walk the Great Wall of China in Aid of the Children's Society [Mandy McSporran]
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 9, no. 3
Date: 1999
Pages: 7
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647