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The Impact of Read Aloud with Socratic Discussion on the Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills of the Elementary Student
Available from: St. Catherine University
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Abstract/Notes: This study aims to uncover a link between read aloud with Socratic discussion and its impact on literacy and critical thinking skills. In researching this relationship, both quantitative and qualitative data tools were used. Participants in the study included 60 students from a charter Montessori school in the Southwest United States ranging from grade 1 to 6. Students participated in a six-week intervention. The intervention included a 60-minute read aloud with Socratic discussion session conducted twice a week. The findings indicate that there is a general increase in literacy and reading comprehension skills. In addition, the study was also shown to have a significant impact on individual participation and critical thinking skills as it relates to themes of the book. The conclusion of the study recommends more research with varied communities and book choices. In the future we must find ways to stimulate critical thinking skills in the elementary child using relatable themes and critical questioning.
Language: English
Published: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2020
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The Form Education Must Take to Be Able to Assist in the Critical Times of the World To-Day
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1963, no. 1/2
Date: 1963
Pages: 2–6
Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings
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Abstract/Notes: From an unidentified lecture.
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
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Paying Attention to Attention: Brain Development and the Critical Period of Focused Attention and Concentration
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 12, no. 3
Date: 2008
Pages: 5–10, 17–20
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Language: English
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The Rules for Montessori Meetings and Decision Making: Critical Steps in the Blueprint Process
Publication: Montessori Leadership, vol. 8, no. 3
Date: Sep 2007
Pages: 34–35, 44
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Language: English
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Report by Susan Feez of a Seminar on Teaching of Critical Thinking
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 1988
Pages: 21–24
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Language: English
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Critical Influences in the Origins of Competence
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 3, no. 1
Date: Spring 1976
Pages: 57-80
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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Research/Soul Search: Thoughts on Dealing with Research Critical of Montessori Practice
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: Winter 1990
Pages: 17
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Dear Alice and Betty: Our Interview with Two Respected, Veteran Teachers Brings Critical Response
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 10, no. 1
Date: Fall 1997
Pages: 24
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Unconscious to Conscious: A Critical Transition for Toddlers
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 7, no. 3
Date: 2003
Pages: 6–11, 15–21
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Language: English
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A Critical Social Psychological Contribution to (Global) Citizenship Education: Seeing Oneself Through the Eyes of the 'Other'
Available from: Discourse Unit
Publication: Annual Review of Critical Psychology, vol. 16
Date: 2019
Pages: 1330-1358
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Abstract/Notes: Taylor (2004) argues that the Western moral order is characterised by three key forms — the market economy, public sphere, and self-governance. These forms entail contradictory tendencies for the concept of selfhood and our relations with each other. We do endorse an autonomous and free self, who should pursue her goals, but is also expected to act ethically towards others through mutuality, equality, and collectivity. However, we are concerned with being authentic, i.e. being true to ‘ourselves’, as well as with recognising the needs and differences of the ‘other’. This moral order is based on notions of political equality, democracy, freedom, human rights, and privatised economic prosperity. Moving ‘with Holzkamp beyond Holzkamp’ (Teo, 2016), in this paper, we present a method to foster the skill to step out from one’s moral matrix, the invisible normalised moral order, and view oneself through the eyes of the ‘other’. Focusing on food practices, we developed a method for social self-clarification (Holzkamp, 1995). The skill to see oneself through the eyes of the ‘other’ is necessary in realising one’s entanglement in a global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably produces severe inequalities.
Language: English
ISSN: 1464-0538, 1746-739X