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Article
Children's Literature by Mary Jo Hogan
Publication: AMI Elementary Alumni Association Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 1
Date: Oct 1983
Pages: insert
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Abstract/Notes: Lecture, AMI-EAA conference, Berea, KY, June 27, 1983
Language: English
Article
Geometry and Pre-Geometry: The Teaching of Geometry to Children
Publication: The Montessori Magazine: A Quarterly Journal for Teachers, Parents and Social Workers (India), vol. 2, no. 1
Date: Jan 1948
Pages: 16-20
Claude Albert Claremont - Writings, Geometry
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Language: English
Article
Promoting Misbehaviour in Children
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 18
Date: Jun 2000
Pages: 9
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Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation
Pilgrims and Guides: A Phenomenological Study of Montessori Teachers Guiding and Being Guided by Children in Public Montessori Schools
Available from: University of Maryland Libraries
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Abstract/Notes: This study explores the experiences of public school Montessori teachers. Max van Manen’s methodology for hermeneutic phenomenological research provides a framework for the study, and the philosophical writings of Gadamer, Abram, and Levinas guide the textual interpretations. Voices of curriculum theorists, in conversation with Maria Montessori’s words, reveal possibilities for understanding the experiences of Montessori public school teachers in the context of contemporary curriculum discourse. Six public school Montessori teachers engage with the researcher in a series of open-ended conversations. These elementary school teachers work with majority minority student populations in three different urban school districts. They range in age from mid-30s to early 60s, and have between 5 and 33 years of teaching experience in public Montessori schools. Their conversations illuminate the experience of teaching in public Montessori schools in three main themes. The teachers tell of being transformed and drawn-in to a way of life as they take Montessori training. They speak of the goodness of work that calls children to concentrate their energies and grow into active, caring and responsible people. Finally, they reflect on boundaries of difference encountered in the hallways and meeting places of public schools, and the shadows cast by state tests. The study suggests a need for Montessori teachers in public schools to participate in open-hearted conversations with parents, non-Montessori educators and administrators about what they are trying to do in their classrooms. It also reveals that decisions made by school administrators have a powerful effect on the ability of Montessorians to create engaging, child-centered learning environments. Finally, the study suggests a need for teachers, administrators, teacher-educators, and policy makers to embrace the questions and possibilities for creative growth inherent in tensions between the conflicting paradigms of adult-driven technical/scientific educational schema and the Montessori developmentally-based teaching style.
Language: English
Published: College Park, Maryland, 2007
Article
Helping Children within the Classroom Community Cope with Grief and Loss
Publication: Montessori Leadership
Date: 2004
Pages: 33–35
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Language: English
Article
Breaking Free [Tibetan Children's Village, Northern India]
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 74
Date: Jan 2005
Pages: 26–27, 42
Asia, Displaced communities, India, Refugees, South Asia, Tibet
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Book
Montessori for the New Millennium: Practical Guidance on the Teaching and Education of Children of All Ages, Based on A Rediscovery of the True Principles and Vision of Maria Montessori
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
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Abstract/Notes: Although Montessori's name is almost universally known in education circles today, and there are countless nursery schools throughout the world using the "Montessori Method," the real core of her thinking has remained largely misunderstood. Most people regard the method as a system for the education of very young children. And most who have some direct experience of it, either as parent or teacher, would regard it as involving a certain set of procedures and specialized educational materials with clear and elaborate instructions for their use. However, the essence of Montessori's philosophy of education is in reality far broader than this, and contains a powerful message for educators everywhere. What is less well-known about Montessori's work is that she began by establishing the effectiveness of her approach at the pre-elementary level, but also strongly encouraged the extension of her method to the higher levels of education. Wentworth's purpose in writing this book is to elucidate this vital aspect of Maria Montessori's life's work and to show how it applies to real-life teaching situations. She believed that by transforming the process of children's education she could help to transform the attitudes of the adults they will later become, and so those of society and the world at large--a message she promoted as vitally relevant to the future of humankind as a whole.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 1999
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-1-4106-0440-8
Article
Montessori Schools – 2. St. George's Children's House, Harpenden
Publication: Montessori Notes, vol. 1, no. 6
Date: Dec 1934
Pages: 98–99, 101
England, Europe, Great Britain, Montessori Society (United Kingdom) - Periodicals, Northern Europe, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Article
The Psychical Hygiene of Small Children
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 5
Date: 1960
Pages: 59-61
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
Conference Paper
Divergent Production in Montessori Children
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Abstract/Notes: This study examined the contention that teacher instruction in the "correct use" of classroom equipment, as in the Montessori training method, inhibits a child's ability to generate other uses for that same equipment. Subjects were 31 matched pairs of four- and five-year-olds from two Montessori preschools and two traditional nursery schools. Each child was given adaptations of four Unusual Uses Test from Torrance's Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking and Writing. The tests utilized two items familiar to all children (a stuffed dog and a fork) and two Montessori equipment items (a triangular wooden block and a button frame). A comparison of the children's test results contradicted theassertion that teacher demonstration of how to use equipment inhibits creativity, whether or not the objects used are Montessori equipment items. (ST)
Language: English