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Adopting the Montessori Methodology in Teaching Languages to Adult Students: Transnational Approach
Available from: Springer Link
Book Title: The 11th International Conference on European Transnational Educational (ICEUTE 2020, Burgos, Spain)
Pages: 187-195
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Abstract/Notes: Teaching adults unlike educating children, is a difficult area, owing to the learners’ educational and social background, compounded by their expectations and assumed goals. Bearing in mind that learning and teaching strategies may not be equally effective with all learners, it is advisable to propose such a mode of teaching that would accommodate especially those adults who face difficulties with gaining knowledge, due to factors outside the strictly educational sphere. This is where, Maria Montessori’s pedagogy steps in with a proposal addressed at those persons who have so far failed to succeed in learning a foreign language in a traditional way. Her pedagogy has inspired teachers and educators all over the world and consequently, had a profound effect on the structure and quality of teaching until today. Although it has mainly dealt with educating children and young people until the age of 18, there have been attempts to apply her methodology to adult teaching. The author of this article will look at the ways her philosophy can be adopted in teaching adults, however to get a better perception of the nature of her ideas, some attention has to be drawn to what drove Maria Montessori to devoting her professional life to education.
Language: English
Published: Berlin, Germany: Springer International Publishing, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-57799-5
Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , 1266
Article
World Languages: Case Study in Spanish
Publication: Whole School Montessori Handbook
Date: 2015
Pages: 277–293
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Language: English
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Montessori Language Program
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Language: English
Published: Mesa, Arizona: Montessori Research and Development Center, 1985
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Language and Montessori
Book Title: Building the Foundations for Creative Learning
Pages: 144-170
American Montessori Society (AMS), New York
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Language: English
Published: New York: American Montessori Society, 1964
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L’attualità interculturale di Maria Montessori: le infanzie e le lingue nel contesto educativo / Maria Montessori’s Intercultural Relevance: Childhoods and Languages in the Educational Context
Available from: Università di Bologna
Publication: Educazione Interculturale, vol. 19, no. 2
Date: 2021
Pages: 46-56
Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: Il contributo intende sondare alcuni tratti della pedagogia e del metodo Montessori di interesse per ripensare gli attuali contesti educativi escolastici sempre più interdipendenti ed eterogenei (Zoletto, 2012). L’individualizzazione nell’apprendimento e la differenziazione sono tensioni costanti nel pensiero di Montessori e si concretizzano nel ruolo dell’ambiente preparato dall’adulto a misuradi ogni bambino, in cui sono organizzati materiali di sviluppo non condizionati daappartenenze culturali (PescieTrabalzini, 2007) e nella pluralità linguistica assunta quale tratto strutturale del contesto (Consalvo, 2020), come avviene in molte scuoledi metodo che stanno sperimentando progetti bilingui. È dall’ambiente secondo Montessori (2000) che i bambini prendono il linguaggio, le abitudini e le caratteristiche della comunità a cui partecipano e per questo gli ambienti scolastici e le atmosfere relazionali costruiti sulla base della unicità e differenza di ognuno sono interculturali (Pesci,2006). Il contributo propone le prime riflessioni scaturite dal lavoro di indagine sull’attualità interculturale di Montessori in prospettiva plurilingue, che èuno dei filoni di ricerca del PRIN (2017) Maria Montessori from the past to the present(Unitàdi ricerca: Bologna, Milano, Roma, Aosta). / This paper will explore some aspects of the Montessori method and pedagogy that are pertinent in rethinking today's increasingly interdependent and heterogeneous educational and school contexts (Zoletto, 2012). Personalized learning and differentiation are constant tensions in Montessori thinking, taking shape in the environment prepared by the adult specifically for each child, where the developmental materials offered are not conditioned by cultural affiliations (Pesci e Trabalzini, 2007) and linguistic plurality is a structural feature of the context (Consalvo, 2020), as occurs in many method schools that are experimenting with bilingual projects. According to Montessori (2000), children acquire language, habits and the characteristics of the community they are part of from the environment, and for this reason school environments and the relational atmospheres based on the uniqueness and differences of each individual are intercultural (Pesci, 2006). The paper offers some initial reflections starting from an investigation of Montessori's intercultural relevance in a multilingual perspective, one of the PRIN (2017) research areas Maria Montessori from the past to the present (Research Units: Bologna, Milan, Rome, Aosta).
Language: Italian
DOI: 10.6092/issn.2420-8175/13899
ISSN: 2420-8175
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The Mystery of Language
Book Title: Education for a New World
Pages: 30-36
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2007
ISBN: 978-90-79506-12-5
Series: The Montessori Series , 5
Article
Preschool Experience in 10 Countries: Cognitive and Language Performance at Age 7
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3
Date: 2006
Pages: 313-331
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Abstract/Notes: The IEA Preprimary Project is a longitudinal, cross-national study of preprimary care and education designed to identify how process and structural characteristics of the settings children attended at age 4 are related to their age-7 cognitive and language performance. Investigators collaborated to develop common instruments to measure family background, teachers’ characteristics, setting structural characteristics, experiences of children in settings, and children’s developmental status. Data from 10 countries are included in the analysis; in most countries, the sample of settings is representative of preprimary settings in that country. For the analysis, a 3-level hierarchical linear model was employed that allowed decomposition of variation of child outcomes into three parts—variation among children within settings, among settings within countries, and among countries. Four findings are consistent across all of the countries included. Age-7 language improves as teachers’ number of years of full-time schooling increases and the predominant type of activity teachers propose in settings is free choice rather than personal/social. Age-7 cognitive performance improves as children spend less time in whole group activities and the variety of equipment and materials available increases. There were also a number of findings that varied across countries depending on particular country characteristics. The findings support child-initiated activities and small group activities and are consistent with developmentally appropriate practices promoting active learning.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2006.07.007
ISSN: 0885-2006, 1873-7706
Article
Language and Montessori: A Landscape
Publication: Communications: Journal of the Association Montessori Internationale (2009-2012), vol. 2012, no. 1-2
Date: 2012
Pages: 76–81
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Abstract/Notes: In conclusion, Hope Leyson brings together many of the aspects that were described and highlighted in the articles selected for this particular issue of our Journal. Language, pertinent theories, and new discoveries into how the language areas in the brain function will continue to evolve. Language development provides an ine xhaustible and joy ful source of observation and learning. And in our Montessori environments language is vibrant, innovative and it encourages creativity. Ms Leyson revels in the miracle of all that human language is, signifies and brings to our world. She of fers the reader a very well-researched overview of a host of aspects connected with the phenomenon and study of human language.
Language: English
ISSN: 1877-539X
Article
Dual Language Development: Making America a Multilingual Society
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 7, no. 4
Date: 2004
Pages: 5–9, 13–17
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Language: English
Article
The Language of Feelings
Publication: Family Life (AMI/USA), no. 3
Date: Spring 1983
Pages: 11, 20
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Language: English