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Parents as Partners: Creating a Culture of Respect and Collaboration with Parents
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: 2015
Pages: 129-137
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Parents as partners is a slight digression in title from the grace and courtesy theme of the journal, but it builds its argument around the concept of cooperative relations between the parents and the school. Sarah speaks of the perception of the teacher and parents as each being unique and particular to the life and personality of each child. The teacher must see the positive in the child and have a natural respect and dignity so both want to act for the greater good and, likewise, must treat the parents as wanting to make their own contribution to their child as part of the whole-child community. Sarah goes on to suggest that diverse views of the same child are one of the most valuable offerings of a school. These varying perspectives override the linear view that assumes one perspective, which can be one-dimensional, reductionist, and can lead to labeling. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled "Grace, Courtesy, and Civility Across the Planes," Portland, OR, March 13-16, 2014.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
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Follow the Parent: Parent Education at the Montessori School of Lake Forest
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 35, no. 1
Date: 2010
Pages: 111-116
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
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Blending Differing Perspectives of Parents and Guides: Meeting Parents Where They Are and Bringing Them along on the Journey
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Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 39, no. 1
Date: Winter 2014
Pages: 91-97
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Maura Joyce's clear approach to initiating parent education is to recognize where the parents are on their own journey as parents. By listening to the parents' hopes, fears, and desired outcomes for their children acknowledges the family's perspective and brings mutuality into a shared community. Maura Joyce encourages the use of questionnaires and feedback and gives specific exercises to implement parent education, open communication, and ease parents' anxieties. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled "The Montessori Oasis: Prepared Pathways for a Sustainable School Community," Columbia, MD, October 3-6, 2013.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
More Parent Involvement: Refining Parent Education with an Emphasis on Assistants to Infancy
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 31, no. 2
Date: 2006
Pages: 5–18
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
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Revised Membership Fees Promote Participation
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 8, no. 2
Date: Mar 1987
Pages: 1, 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
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Social Participation of Preschool Children in Same- versus Mixed-Age Groups
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Child Development, vol. 52, no. 2
Date: Jun 1981
Pages: 644-650
Article
The Rights of Children and Adolescents to Education and to Participation in the Construction of their Future
Publication: Montessori Articles (Montessori Australia Foundation)
Date: n.d.
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Language: English
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Autonomy, Spontaneity and Creativity in Research with Children. a Study of Experience and Participation, in Central Italy and North West England
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, vol. 23, no. 1
Date: 2020
Pages: 55-74
Autonomy in children, Creative ability in children, Creative thinking in children, England, Europe, Great Britain, Italy, Montessori method of education, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Spontaneity (Personality trait), United Kingdom
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Abstract/Notes: Research involving children, deemed to have difficulties with conventional means of communication, can perpetuate reductive forms of representation of children’s knowledges and experiences. This article focuses on the possibilities and opportunities that visual and creative methods can offer to researching with children. Children advance their views in and through spontaneous and concrete forms of participation. Autonomy in aesthetic acts is central to this methodology; to explore practices that produce and reproduce presuppositions deriving from societal attitudes affecting research with children, their agency and self-presentation. This cross-cultural study was conducted in Central Italy and North West England: children contributed their perspectives and experiences through participation in a series of creative encounters resulting in aesthetic and embodied outcomes of sociological and educational significance. The study contributes to the debate on children’s autonomy and the value and quality of participation through artistic practice. Examples from the corpus of data, which includes a series of artefacts and over 900 photographs from each geo-cultural context, are presented. The study shows that it is possible to harmonise power imbalances in spaces of creative freedom, in research and education, where children’s choices and agency are respected.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672280
ISSN: 1364-5579
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Dai 12 kaitaikai sanka hōkoku kihon kōsu / 第12回大会参加報告 基本コース [Participation in the 12th Tournament Basic Course]
Publication: Montessori Kyōiku / モンテッソーリ教育 [Montessori Education], no. 12
Date: 1980
Pages: 146-150
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Language: Japanese
ISSN: 0913-4220