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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
Whole Systems Thinking: Education for Sustainability at a Montessori School
Available from: InformIT
Publication: Eingana, vol. 30, no. 1
Date: Jun 2007
Pages: 9-11
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Abstract/Notes: Whole systems thinking is a framework for seeing the whole picture, for establishing interrelationships and understanding phenomena as an integrated whole. Systems thinking may be contrasted with fragmentary thinking, which is viewing phenomena in their separate parts and focusing only on narrow specialisations. In an education for sustainability (EfS) context this means emphasising relationships: relationships between all the systems on planet Earth, and at different systems levels, as they relate to the environment, economics, government, health, and so on. Values and goals are also important aspects of these relationships. Sterling argues that: 'We are educated by and large to compete and consume rather than to care and conserve'. Furthermore, the same author maintains that because of the imposition of managerial and economic values on education we have lost touch with the social values and real-life contexts of authentic education. With these ideas in mind, this paper briefly examines the application of whole systems thinking on an EfS program at a small Montessori primary school in the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. [Author abstract, ed]
Language: English
ISSN: 0156-7608
Master's Thesis
Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher's views on society, education and the problems of sane living, as revealed in her writings
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
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Language: English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas, 1930
Article
The Tragedy of Education
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: The Quest, vol. 4, no. 2
Date: Jan 1913
Pages: 212-228
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: English
Article
Montessori as an Alternative Early Childhood Education
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Early Child Development and Care, vol. 191, no. 7/8 (Early Childhood Theorists and Pioneers)
Date: 2021
Pages: 1196-1206
Comparative education, Culturally responsive teaching, Early childhood education, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: Montessori education was developed over 100 years ago, and persists as a marginal ‘niche reform’ of the standard model. Here I discuss two unresolved dichotomies in early childhood education – the tension between work and play, and between structure and freedom. I explain how Montessori collapses and thereby resolves the dichotomies, and does so in a contemporary theoretical frame – one that is dynamical rather than linear. I next describe the origins and functioning of Montessori preschool environments, outcomes from the most methodologically sound studies to date, and impediments to Montessori’s more widespread adoption. I also show how Montessori is a culturally responsive pedagogy, and conclude by return to the dichotomies and how Montessori makes sense for the modern era.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2020.1832998
ISSN: 0300-4430, 1476-8275
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