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The Influence of Neuroscience on Early Childhood Education
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Book Title: Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education
Pages: 176-190
Developmental psychology, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Neuroscience
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Abstract/Notes: It is only within very recent history – the past 25 to 30 years – that neuroscience has become a force in child development and educational research, as the tools to study the brain in action have improved and become more readily available. Although neuroscience research on reading, math, and social and emotional function also has important implications for education, this chapter focuses on executive function (EF) skills because these skills play an especially foundational role in learning and because they have been particularly well studied. Basic research on EF development has provided an important foundation for interventions designed to specifically target EF skills in young children, and suggests how to structure places of education to playfully explore their environments in intentional and attentive ways, to practice reflection, and to engage in self-regulated learning. Although neuroscience is a relatively new player in early education, it has transformed people's understanding of the conditions that support learning and brain development.
Language: English
Published: New York: Routledge, 2020
ISBN: 978-0-429-46828-5
Article
Recent Empirical Research on Montessori Education in Germany
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 2008, no. 2
Date: 2008
Pages: 35–38
Europe, Germany, Harald Ludwig - Writings, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - Research, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: With an introduction to VERA 2004, a comparative research project in German. The article also includes a summary of a study into furthering creativity through Montessori education.
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
The Doctor Who Opened a New Door to Education
Available from: UNESDOC Digital Library
Publication: UNESCO Courier, vol. 2, no. 12
Date: Jan 1950
Pages: 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0041-5278
Article
The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 43, no. 3
Date: Summer 2018
Pages: 23-31
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, Sustainability
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Abstract/Notes: David Orr suggests that environmentalist and peace educators must teach civics, law, government, and political history to deeply cultivate an understanding of the influences and policies that create and perpetuate environmental destruction and humanitarian crises. Citizens, especially students, must comprehend the political forces and the public interests that have created the current destabilization of our environment and human community and must become civically and politically engaged to affect actual policy change.
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
Reinventing the Wheel: Seeking Excellence in Education
Publication: Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin
Date: Fall 2009
Pages: 34-36
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Language: English
ISSN: 0011-8044, 2169-5326
Article
Education Does Not Merely Aim at the Formation of the Individuals, but of the Social Personality
Publication: The Bulletin (Association Montessori Internationale)
Date: Oct 1946
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Language: English
Article
Cosmic Education, Sixth Lecture
Publication: Communications: Journal of the Association Montessori Internationale (2009-2012), vol. 2009, no. 2
Date: 2009
Pages: 39-43
Cosmic education, England, Europe, Great Britain, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Northern Europe, Trainings, United Kingdom
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Abstract/Notes: In this Cosmic Lecture, Montessori continues her previous lecture on supra-nature, and how that connects to human growth. In a way this lecture also reverberates the specific theme of this issue, when Montessori writes that in the first year of the child's life he has already seen everything, and has started to order all sorts of things in his mind, through an inner, directed effort. This is not happening haphazardly. Montessori points out that 'in the second year of his life the child is observing the tiniest possible things; almost invisible things are seen by him. Just as if he had already seen enough of the larger things of life, and they no longer held any interest for him.'
Language: English
ISSN: 1877-539X
Article
Whole Systems Thinking: Education for Sustainability at a Montessori School
Available from: InformIT
Publication: Eingana, vol. 30, no. 1
Date: Jun 2007
Pages: 9-11
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Abstract/Notes: Whole systems thinking is a framework for seeing the whole picture, for establishing interrelationships and understanding phenomena as an integrated whole. Systems thinking may be contrasted with fragmentary thinking, which is viewing phenomena in their separate parts and focusing only on narrow specialisations. In an education for sustainability (EfS) context this means emphasising relationships: relationships between all the systems on planet Earth, and at different systems levels, as they relate to the environment, economics, government, health, and so on. Values and goals are also important aspects of these relationships. Sterling argues that: 'We are educated by and large to compete and consume rather than to care and conserve'. Furthermore, the same author maintains that because of the imposition of managerial and economic values on education we have lost touch with the social values and real-life contexts of authentic education. With these ideas in mind, this paper briefly examines the application of whole systems thinking on an EfS program at a small Montessori primary school in the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. [Author abstract, ed]
Language: English
ISSN: 0156-7608
Article
Education to Wonder and Conclsuion: Religious Potential of the Child
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4
Date: Winter 1983
Pages: 18-19
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
Article
Project 2061: Education for a Changing Future
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 16, no. 2
Date: Spring 1991
Pages: 71–75
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Presented at NAMTA conference on educational reform, Washington, DC, February 28-March 3, 1991
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734