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Conference Paper
Divergent Production in Montessori Children
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Abstract/Notes: This study examined the contention that teacher instruction in the "correct use" of classroom equipment, as in the Montessori training method, inhibits a child's ability to generate other uses for that same equipment. Subjects were 31 matched pairs of four- and five-year-olds from two Montessori preschools and two traditional nursery schools. Each child was given adaptations of four Unusual Uses Test from Torrance's Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking and Writing. The tests utilized two items familiar to all children (a stuffed dog and a fork) and two Montessori equipment items (a triangular wooden block and a button frame). A comparison of the children's test results contradicted theassertion that teacher demonstration of how to use equipment inhibits creativity, whether or not the objects used are Montessori equipment items. (ST)
Language: English
Book
Montessori Children's Project, volume 1: In the Beginning
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Language: English
Published: Cleveland Heights, Ohio: North American Montessori Teachers' Association, 1985
Volume: 1 of 3
Article
Fort Play: Children Recreate Recess
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 19, no. 3
Date: 2007
Pages: 20-30
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Abstract/Notes: Recess beckons well before it actually arrives. Its allure can be heard in children's lunchtime conversations as they discuss imaginary roles, plans, alliances and teams, with an obvious appetite for play and its unbounded possibility. For some children, recess provides the most important reasons to come to school. In team sports, games of chase and tag, clique-bound conversations, solitary wandering and exploration, pretend and war play, recess offers reliable access to a scarce resource of immense value in the lives of children: spontaneous self-direction. Although watched over by the protective though generally unobtrusive gaze of supervising teachers, children at recess interact with their natural environment and with each other as they choose--a freedom denied them at other times while at school, and increasingly in their homes and neighborhood. As a lower elementary teacher at Lexington Montessori School (LMS) in Lexington, MA, from 1994 through 2002, the author witnessed for eight years the development of an extraordinary child-centered and spontaneous world of recess play (Powell, 2007). As children entered the elementary program at LMS, their peers initiated them into a culture of fort building. The forts, built entirely from sticks, leaves, and found objects from the surrounding woods, were the sites of considerable experimentation with different forms and rules of social organization and various styles of construction. They were also the vehicles for much of the conflict that occurred at the school. Children negotiated and clashed over ownership of land and resources and argued about the rules and roles of fort play and whether the rights of those already identified with a structure outweighed the rights of outsiders to be included. In doing so, they developed and influenced each other's reasoning about such moral principles as benevolence, justice, and reciprocity. Fort play was unpredictable, immediate, exciting, and fun, a brief window of opportunity,among hours of mostly adult-inspired activities and expectations, in which these children were free to manage their own lives and interact with each other on their own terms. As in the case of other schools where fort play has flourished, the LMS forts were in no way a programmed activity but rather a spontaneous one that simply wasn't stopped.
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Children and Contagious Diseases: Things Montessorians Should Know
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 3, no. 4
Date: 1991
Pages: 29–30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Carolyn S. Bailey's The Montessori Children
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Bookman (New York), no. 2
Date: 1915
Pages: 213
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Language: English
ISSN: 2156-9932
Article
Guidelines for the Children's House
Publication: Montessori Quarterly, vol. 16
Date: Oct 1980
Pages: 1–35
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Language: English
Article
Inclusive Education for Exceptional Children in Egypt and the US: Reforming Egyptian Inclusive Education System in Post-pandemic World
Available from: Knowledge E Publishing
Publication: Gulf Education and Social Policy Review (GESPR), vol. 3, no. 2
Date: 2023
Pages: 318-344
Africa, Americas, Educational change, Egypt, Inclusive education, Middle East, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., North Africa, North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: Inclusive education means that exceptional children (EC) can fully participate in the learning process alongside their typically developing peers, supported by reasonable accommodations and teaching strategies that are tailored to meet their individual needs. The main goal of inclusion policies for EC is to provide high-quality education for all without discrimination and to ensure the implementation of equal opportunity principles. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the reality of inclusive education systems in Egypt and the United States (US) and to develop a better understanding of similarities and differences and thus identify the lessons learned. The study applied a comparative analysis method. Research findings revealed that the progress towards inclusion practices in Egyptian inclusive public schools is minimal and hindered by many challenges. Among them are lacking financial resources and a shortage of qualified teachers trained to differentiate curricula for EC. Based on the research findings, the study concludes with recommendations to improve the Egyptian inclusive education for EC.
Language: English
DOI: 10.18502/gespr.v3i2.12617
ISSN: 2709-0191
Article
Effects of Montessori Program According to Years of Mathematics: Focusing on the Effects on Children's Interaction / 수학연한에 따른 몬테소리프로그램의 효과유아의 상호작용에 미치는 영향을 중심으로
Available from: RISS
Publication: Montessori교육연구 [Montessori Education Research], vol. 9
Date: 2004
Pages: 17-44
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Language: Korean
ISSN: 1226-9417
Article
Protecting Your Children on the Information Highway: What Parents Need to Know
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 8, no. 1
Date: 1996
Pages: 26
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Doctoral Dissertation
A Comparison of Preschool Children in Observational Tasks from Two Programs: Montessori and Science - A Process Approach
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
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Language: English
Published: Austin, Texas, 1974