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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
Article
Growing Up the Montessori Way [Condensed from 'Maria Montessori Children School Foundation Bulletin']
Publication: Theosophical Digest (Philippines), vol. 10, no. 1
Date: 1998
Pages: 79-85
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Language: English
ISSN: 0116-9858
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Bildnerische Entfaltung des Kindes im Kinderhaus [Visual development of the child in the children's home]
Publication: Montessori: Zeitschrift für Montessori-Pädagogik, vol. 37, no. 2-3
Date: 1999
Pages: 107-113
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Language: German
ISSN: 0944-2537
Article
Nicaragua: Helping Children Since 1981
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: El Boletin [Consejo Interamericano Montessori], vol. 3, no. 1
Date: 2000
Pages: 18
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Language: English
Article
...Making Children Sensitive to the Beauties of the World
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 2005, no. 2-3
Date: 2005
Pages: 19
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Social Work in Family Life Enrichment: The Children of Alcoholics - A Montessori Approach
Publication: American Montessori Society Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 1
Date: 1978
Pages: 1-14
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Language: English
ISSN: 0277-9064
Article
From Alpha to Omega [Liberty Children's Home, Ladyville, Belize]
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 18, no. 3
Date: 2006
Pages: 18-20
Americas, Belize, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean
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Abstract/Notes: The Alpha point of the authors' life as a Montessori educator began in 1959, when he was a graduate student studying philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. While studying the works of the great American philosopher William James, the author came across the writings of Maria Montessori and immediately became captivated by her insights concerning the development of the virtuous child through personal experiential learning. He wrote a paper comparing her observations with those of John Dewey and afterward set out to find an opportunity to place himself in some elementary school so he might observe and encourage this philosophical development of children. His teaching career began teaching Philosophy and Latin in a school in Greenwich, Connecticut to children from very privileged families. He then describes the omega point of his career as having been called to serve the very poorest of children housed in an orphanage in Ladyville, a small village in Belize, in Central America. As a veteran Montessorian, he had been asked to help the Liberty Children's Home in Ladyville build and equip a world-class Montessori school.
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
The Montessori Movement; Teaching of English Children
Available from: The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive - Gale
Publication: The Times Educational Supplement (London, England)
Date: Jan 5, 1915
Pages: 8
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori movement, Great Britain
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Language: English
ISSN: 0040-7887
Book
Maria Montessori: The Italian Doctor Who Revolutionized Education for Young Children
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Language: English
Published: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Gareth Stevens Children's Books, 1990
Edition: North American ed.
ISBN: 0-8368-0217-9
Series: People who have helped the world
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The Religious Education of Small Children
Publication: The New Review
Date: 1936
Pages: 105-115
Maria Montessori - Writings, Montessori method of education, Religious education
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Language: English