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Montessori and Waldorf
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 9, no. 4
Date: 2006
Pages: 11–14
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Language: English
Master's Thesis
Barn i behov av särskilt stöd?: en jämförande studie av det pedagogiska arbetet mellan Montessori-, Reggio Emilia-, Waldorf- och den traditionella förskolan
Available from: DiVA Portal
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Abstract/Notes: Studien syftar till att undersöka hur pedagoger i förskolor med olika pedagogiska inriktningar definierar barn i behov av särskilt stöd. Vi vill också ta reda på vilka faktorer som påverkar deras v ...
Language: Swedish
Published: Trollhättan, Sweden, 2008
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Montessori- bzw. Waldorfpädagogik? [Gemeinsames und Unterschiedliches in zwei pädagogischen Konzeptionen]
Publication: Vierteljahrsschrift für Wissenschaftliche Pädagogik, vol. 61, no. 1
Date: 1985
Pages: 139-159
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Language: German
ISSN: 0507-7230
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Three Approaches from Europe: Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia
Available from: ECRP Website
Publication: Early Childhood Research and Practice, vol. 4, no. 1
Date: 2002
Pages: 1-14
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Abstract/Notes: Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia are three progressive approaches to early childhood education that appear to be growing in influence in North America and to have many points in common. This article provides a brief comparative introduction and highlights several key areas of similarity and contrast. All three approaches represent an explicit idealism and turn away from war and violence toward peace and reconstruction. They are built on coherent visions of how to improve human society by helping children realize their full potential as intelligent, creative, whole persons. In each approach, children are viewed as active authors of their own development, strongly influenced by natural, dynamic, self-righting forces within themselves, opening the way toward growth and learning. Teachers depend for their work with children on carefully prepared, aesthetically pleasing environments that serve as a pedagogical tool and provide strong messages about the curriculum and about respect for children. Partnering with parents is highly valued in all three approaches, and children are evaluated by means other than traditional tests and grades. However, there are also many areas of difference, some at the level of principle and others at the level of strategy. Underlying the three approaches are variant views of the nature of young children's needs, interests, and modes of learning that lead to contrasts in the ways that teachers interact with children in the classroom, frame and structure learning experiences for children, and follow the children through observation/documentation. The article ends with discussion of the methods that researchers apply to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Language: English
ISSN: 1524-5039
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Trends in Personal Belief Exemption Rates Among Alternative Private Schools: Waldorf, Montessori, and Holistic Kindergartens in California, 2000–2014
Available from: American Public Health Association
Publication: American Journal of Public Health, vol. 107, no. 1
Date: Jan 2017
Pages: 108-112
Americas, Holistic schools, Montessori schools, North America, Private schools, United States of America, Waldorf schools
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Abstract/Notes: Objectives. To evaluate trends in rates of personal belief exemptions (PBEs) to immunization requirements for private kindergartens in California that practice alternative educational methods. Methods. We used California Department of Public Health data on kindergarten PBE rates from 2000 to 2014 to compare annual average increases in PBE rates between schools. Results. Alternative schools had an average PBE rate of 8.7%, compared with 2.1% among public schools. Waldorf schools had the highest average PBE rate of 45.1%, which was 19 times higher than in public schools (incidence rate ratio = 19.1; 95% confidence interval = 16.4, 22.2). Montessori and holistic schools had the highest average annual increases in PBE rates, slightly higher than Waldorf schools (Montessori: 8.8%; holistic: 7.1%; Waldorf: 3.6%). Conclusions. Waldorf schools had exceptionally high average PBE rates, and Montessori and holistic schools had higher annual increases in PBE rates. Children in these schools may be at higher risk for spreading vaccine-preventable diseases if trends are not reversed.
Language: English
ISSN: 0090-0036, 1541-0048
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Duch, który cierpi: O roli cierpienia i rytuału w przeżywaniu kryzysów na przykładzie szkoły waldorfskiej [The Spirit That Suffers: About the role of suffering and ritual in experiencing crises on the example of the Waldorf school]
Available from: University of Lodz
Publication: Nauki o Wychowaniu: Studia Interdyscyplinarne [Educational Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies], vol. 12, no. 1
Date: 2021
Pages: 110-131
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Abstract/Notes: The text is devoted to the role of ritual and art in overcoming individual suffering and social crises. Although unpopular in the contemporary culture of analgesics, focused on achieving quick results, the ritual process (as Maria Mendel and Tomasz Szkudlarek show after Turner) is essentially identical to the experience of crisis. Therefore, going through rituals has the potential of transgression, and solving difficult situations for individuals and societies. I discuss this with examples of the changes in birth narratives and also showing the ways of dealing with trauma of Martin Miller, son of the famous psychotherapist Alice Miller. Another feature of contemporary culture is the rejection of the sacrum, as illustrated by the removal of theosophical threads from Maria Montessori’s biography and the marginalization of Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf schools, which stem from the crisis of Western rationality. Reproduced and mediated by art, rituals are used in Waldorf schools for educational and developmental purposes, and, according to the theories above, they may have the potential to overcome adolescence crises.
Language: Polish
ISSN: 2450-4491
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Waldorf and Montessori
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 14, no. 1
Date: Fall 2001
Pages: 1, 22-23
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Freedom to Learn [Waldorf education]
Publication: Montessori Courier, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: Jun 1990
Pages: 24–25
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Language: English
ISSN: 0959-4108
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Materials and Methods in Reading: The Montessori Approach
Publication: Education (Boston), vol. 85
Date: Apr 1965
Pages: 468
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Language: English
ISSN: 0013-1172
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A Modern Impression of the Montessori Method
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Australian Journal of Education, vol. 11, no. 2
Date: Jun 1967
Pages: 152-160