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Article
Some Educational Benefits of Freely Chosen Age Mixing among Children and Adolescents.
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 80, no. 7
Date: Mar 1999
Pages: 507-512
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Abstract/Notes: Observation of 200 children ages 4 to 19 attending a Massachusetts nongraded alternative school disclosed substantial age mixing. Younger children used older children to develop skills and acquire knowledge. Age mixing encouraged opportunities for creativity, helped match abilities, and fostered older children's sense of responsibility for younger children. (MLH)
Language: English
ISSN: 0031-7217
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Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Asian Studies Review, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: 2016
Pages: 1-16
Asia, India, Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore - Biographic sources, Santiniketan (India), South Asia, Sriniketan (India), Viśva Bhāratī
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Abstract/Notes: This article investigates Rabindranath Tagore’s educational vision, which underpinned the three institutions he set up in India – Santiniketan (1901), Visva-Bharati (1921) and Sriniketan (1922). It argues that this vision is still relevant for the world of today and tomorrow, and that it should be taken into account in designing any educational model for the future. Tagore rejected the modern mechanical learning that focuses merely on cultivation of the individual’s mind, in favour of learning that encourages the creativity, imagination and moral awareness of students. He believed that education should be not for mere “success” or “progress” but for “illumination of heart” and for inculcation of a spirit of sympathy, service and self-sacrifice in the individual, so that s/he could rise above egocentrism and ethnocentrism to a state of global consciousness or worldcentrism. In pursuing this argument, I refer to Tagore’s letters, lectures, interviews and essays, both in Bengali and in English, a body of his short stories, his novel The Home and the World and his allegorical poem “Two Birds”. I also explain his awareness of the educational movements of his time in the West, and draw brief parallels with selected Western luminaries in the field, such as Plato, Montaigne, Rousseau and John Dewey. My contention is that although some may dismiss Tagore’s educational principles as “rickety sentimentalism” in a world that is palpable and real, his ideas of human fellowship, unity and creativity, and kinship for nature seem irrefutable with the rise of multiculturalism and the looming ecological crisis threatening world peace.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2015.1125441
ISSN: 1035-7823
Book
The World Is One Family: The Spirit of Montessori: 100 Years of Montessori Education - a New Zealand Celebration
Australasia, Australia and New Zealand, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education, Montessori movement, New Zealand, Nicola Chisnall - Writings, Oceania
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Abstract/Notes: The World is One Family was written to commemorate 100 years of Montessori education in New Zealand.
Language: English
Published: Nelson, New Zealand: Montessori Association of New Zealand, 2007
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Die Entwicklung der Montessori-Pädogogik nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg am Beispiel Düsseldorf [The development of Montessori education after the Second World War using the example of Düsseldorf]
Book Title: Montessori-Pädagogik in Deutschland: Rückblick - Aktualität - Zukunftsperspektiven ; 40 Jahre Montessori-Vereinigung e.V. [Montessori Pedagogy in Germany: Review - Current Issues - Future Perspectives 40 years of the Montessori Association]
Pages: 79-86
Europe, Germany, Western Europe
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Language: German
Published: Münster, Germany: Lit, 2002
ISBN: 978-3-8258-5746-2
Series: Impulse der Reformpädagogik , 7
Article
Montessori Education in Exiled Tibetan Children's Villages
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 2007, no. 2
Date: 2007
Pages: 60-75
Asia, Displaced communities, India, Montessori method of education - History, Refugees, South Asia, Tibet, Tibetan Children's Village
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Alternative Perspectives in Education: The Radical School or Reinforcement Theory?
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Publication: Behaviorism, vol. 4, no. 2
Date: Fall 1976
Pages: 231-243
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Language: English
ISSN: 0090-4155, 1943-3352
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Understanding the Montessori Approach: Early Years Education in Practice
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Abstract/Notes: Understanding the Montessori Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 2012
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0-203-12480-2
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Az erkölcsi nevelés alapelvei Montessori rendszerében [Principles of Moral Education in the Montessori System]
Ethics, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: Hungarian
Published: Szeged, Hungary: Ablaka G. Könyvnyomdája, 1938
Article
Education Funding for the Early Years
Publication: CCMA Net [Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators], vol. 6, no. 1
Date: Dec 2002
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Article
The Growing Popularity of Montessori Education [China, U.S.]
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 6, no. 2
Date: 1994
Pages: 5
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040