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Article
Education in Relation to the Imagination of the Little Child
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 20, no. 3
Date: Summer 1995
Pages: 42-49
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Imagination in children, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Montessori method of education, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: This reprint of a 1915 conference paper discusses the significance of religion and truth in the context of the mental powers of children, focusing on the unique role of imagination in the psychology of young children. Stresses the importance of developing sound imagination built on the real and concrete models of young children's environment. (MDM)
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
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 Section
Montessori Activities and Apparatus in Special Education
Book Title: Montessori and the Special Child
Pages: 55-60
Children with disabilities, Montessori materials, Montessori method of education, Special education
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Language: English
Published: New York: Putnam's sons, 1969
Article
Maria Montessori's Cosmic Vision, Cosmic Plan, and Cosmic Education
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 29, no. 1
Date: 2004
Pages: 155-171
Cosmic education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Lecture delivered at interntaional congress in paris 2001. Also in 38:1
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Book
Education for the Twenty-First Century: AMI International Study Conference Proceedings
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Language: English
Published: Rochester, New York: AMI/USA, 1989
Article
Hindu Educational Expert Addresses Jewish Women
Available from: National Library of Israel
Publication: Sentinel (Chicago, Illinois)
Date: Nov 14, 1913
Pages: 15
Americas, Montessori method of education, North America, Paul Chinnappa - Biographic sources, United States of America
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Language: English
Article
Doing Ethnography: Discovering the 'Culture of the Classroom' is Research in the Best Tradition of Montessori Education
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: Winter 1990
Pages: 16
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
The Four Planes of Education
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1969, no. 2/3
Date: 1969
Pages: 4–10
Child development, England, Europe, Great Britain, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Northern Europe, Scotland, Trainings, United Kingdom
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Facilitating Parent Education
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 8, no. 4
Date: 1996
Pages: 28–30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
A New Emphasis on Activity in Education; Experiments Which Bear Upon the Age at Which to Start Children to School
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Utah Educational Review, vol. 5, no. 7
Date: Mar 1912
Pages: 8
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Language: English