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Children's Well-Being and Teachers' Benevolence as the Road to Higher Performance?: Cognitive Neuroscience and Montessori in Preschools
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Book Title: Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe: The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
Pages: 63-78
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Abstract/Notes: There is now a broad international consensus that investing in early childhood education and care represents the highest “return on investment” in terms of economic and social development. The pursuit of the dual objective of efficiency and equity has resulted in a reorientation of preschool curricula towards preparation for compulsory schooling, emphasizing the acquisition of the “fundamentals” (reading, writing, and arithmetic) most useful for future academic success. The chapter offers first a comparative analysis of how this “schooling process” unfolded in French and Belgian nursery schools and in the Danish kindergarten. It attests to the persistence of specific cultural and political traditions relating to both the respective roles of the state and families in early childhood education, as well as of conceptions of childhood and relations between adults and children. Second, based on field research conducted in French-speaking Belgium, it discusses the idea that the search for children's well-being and performance at the same time creates tensions in the exercise of the teaching profession. It then shows that it is possible to understand the success of the discourse of cognitive neuroscience and so-called alternative pedagogical methods, including Montessori, because these discourses seem to propose a way to overcome these tensions.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-00-337720-7
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Recreation for Children
Available from: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives)
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: 1957
Pages: 28-31
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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Observing and Understanding Children
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 38
Date: Jun 2005
Pages: 5
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Abstract/Notes: Possessiveness
Language: English
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Measuring Preschools' Readiness to Mainstream Handicapped Children
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Child Welfare, vol. 55, no. 3
Date: Mar 1976
Pages: 216-220
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Language: English
ISSN: 0009-4021
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Learning to See and Seeing to Learn: A Brighter Way of Life for All Children
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Language: English
Published: Johnstown, Pennsylvania: Mafex Associates, [1971]
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Nelson Mandela's Children: Can Maria Montessori Help Set Them Free?
Book Title: Perspectives on Montessori
Pages: 49-62
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: English
Published: Deventer, The Netherlands: Saxion Progressive Education University Press, 2022
Edition: 1st edition
ISBN: 978-94-92618-56-6
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Learning from Our Children
Publication: M: The Magazine for Montessori Families
Date: Jan 2007
Pages: 27–28
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Abstract/Notes: Why elementary
Language: English
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A Syllabus of Biology for Children [Part 2]
Publication: The Montessori Magazine: A Quarterly Journal for Teachers, Parents and Social Workers (India), vol. 1, no. 4
Date: Sep 1947
Pages: 49-56
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Language: English
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Maria Montessori: Advocate for Children
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 2006, no. 2
Date: 2006
Pages: 4–9
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Abstract/Notes: Montessori's proposals for the White Cross, the Ministry for Children, and the Social Party of the Child
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
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Learning Through Movement: A Body Management Program for Pre-School and Elementary School Age Children
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1965-1973), vol. 6, no. 4
Date: Spring 1971
Pages: 5-10
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X