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Article
Applying Montessori Theory to Break the Cycle of Poverty: A Unique Multi-Generational Model of Transforming Housing, Education, and Community for At-Risk Families
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 39, no. 2
Date: Spring 2014
Pages: 103-110
Crossway Community Montessori School (Kensington, Maryland), Early childhood education, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: The authors accept urban reform as their main calling with their aim being to break the poverty cycle with a multi-faceted, educational, and family-centered approach. The authors speak about providing a broad range of education programs and social services including low-cost housing in comfortable apartments for single mothers, early childhood educational programs, adult education programs, career coaching and job skills training, family support referrals, a home visitation program, a children's garden, whole-family practical-life orientation, and a community center. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled: "Montessori from Birth to Six: In Search of Community Values," Minneapolis, MN, November 7-10, 2013.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
East Dallas Community School
Publication: AMI/USA News, vol. 13, no. 1
Date: Jan 2000
Pages: 3
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Language: English
Article
Community, Freedom, and Discipline in a Caring Montessori Environment
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 39, no. 1
Date: Winter 2014
Pages: 129-140
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: John McNamara's historically rich descriptions of his adolescent community life in one school where he taught the same children from grade one to grade eight sends a warm message of the merge of elementary and middle-school personalities as they are beginning to understand the wonder of growing up. Their letters and speeches remember the impact of their Montessori community as they look at their own knowledge and humanity. His students speak simple truths about how their school made them comfortable with themselves, their classmates, and their work in the past and present and for the future. [This is an update of an article first printed in "The NAMTA Journal" 31.1 (2006, Winter): 69-77.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Bachelor's Thesis
Lasten ja Aikuisten Yhteisö: Lasten osallisuuden toteutuminen ja vertaaminen tavallisen päiväkotiryhmän ja montessoripedagogiikkaa toteuttavan päiväkotiryhmän kesken [Community of Children and Adults: Realization of children's participation and comparison between a regular daycare group and a daycare group that implements Montessori pedagogy]
Available from: Theseus (Finland)
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Abstract/Notes: The aim of this bachelor´s thesis is to investigate the way in which participatory pedagogy is used in two different early education groups. The aim is also to find out how the two groups differ in terms of the participation of children, as one was an average Finnish early education group, while the other was a group, which used Montessori pedagogy. The thesis also introduces an idea of a joint community of adults and children and how participatory pedagogy enhances the experience of community. The purpose of the thesis is to add understanding and encourage the use of participatory pedagogy in the day-to-day life of early education groups. The theoretical section discusses the notion of participatory pedagogy and how it is used from the point of view of the basic functions of an early education group. The central ideas behind Montessori pedagogy are also discussed. The thesis is qualitative, as the data was collected by observing two different early education groups for a week in May 2016. The results of the bachelor´s thesis show that participation has become an increasingly important factor in early education and that it is used in different ways. It was also evident that the individuality of children is valued and that participation is seen important in the daily life of the early education groups studied. Both the early education groups studied value the importance of communication between parents and teachers. Adults play an important role in the implementation of participation and they need to collect information about the children and apply it. It is also necessary for the adults to be able to develop the basic ways of using participation in the daily life of an early education group. / Tässä tutkimuksessa on tutkittu lasten osallisuuden toteutumista tavallisessa päiväkotiryhmässä ja montessoripedagogiikkaa toteuttavassa päiväkotiryhmässä. Lisäksi haluttiin selvittää millaisia eroja osallisuudesta löytyy kahden erilaisen päiväkotiryhmän välillä. Tutkimuksessa on myös tuotu esiin ajatusta yhteisestä lasten ja aikuisten yhteisöstä, siitä miten osallisuus vahvistaa yhteisöllisyyden kokemusta. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on lisätä ymmärrystä lasten osallisuudesta päiväkodin arjessa ja innostaa toteuttamaan sitä. Teoreettisessa viitekehyksessä avataan osallisuuden käsitettä ja käsitellään osallisuutta päiväkodin arjen perustoimintojen näkökulmasta. Lisäksi esitellään montessoripedagogiikan perusajatusta. Tutkimus on kvalitatiivinen ja sen aineisto kerättiin havainnoimalla kahta päiväkotiryhmää viikon ajan toukokuussa 2016. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että päiväkodeissa osallisuus on noussut erittäin merkittäväksi tekijäksi ja käytössä on erilaisia lasten osallisuutta vahvistavia toiminta-tapoja. Lisäksi päiväkodeissa näkyi, että lasten yksilöllisyyttä vaalitaan. Osallisuus on nähty tärkeäksi jokapäiväisessä arjessa. Montessoripedagogiikkaa toteuttavassa päiväkotiryhmässä työskentelee aikuisia, jotka kunnioittavat pedagogiikkaa ja toiminta lähtee lapsesta. Molempien päiväkotien näkemykset kasvatuskumppanuudesta ovat samankaltaiset. Aikuisilla on merkittävä rooli lasten osallisuuden toteutumisessa, heidän tulee kerätä lapsista tietoa ja osata hyödyntää tätä, lisäksi aikuisilta vaaditaan taitoa osata kehittää osallisuutta vahvistavia toimintatapoja päiväkodin arkeen.
Language: Finnish
Published: Vaasa, Finland, 2016
Book Section
Nurturing a Democratic Community in the Classroom
Available from: Springer Link
Book Title: Making Sense of Education: Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in Their Own Words
Pages: 63-69
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Abstract/Notes: Thayer-Bacon tells her story in a conversational tone that traces her personal and professional roots as she describes various chapters of her life: first as a philosopher, how she became involved in education, and then how that involvement became a career as a philosopher of education, in a large teacher education program, and now at a research institution. She sketches her philosophical contributions, as a pragmatist, feminist, postmodernist, and cultural studies scholar, to philosophy, philosophy of education, and education.
Language: English
Published: Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2012
ISBN: 978-94-007-4017-4
Book Section
The Education of Man for a Peaceful World Community: Inaugural Speech of the Chairman of the Congress
Book Title: The Education of Man for a Peaceful World Community: Congress Report of the XIIIth International Montessori Congress, Amsterdam, Holland, April 1-4, 1964
Pages: 20-31
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (13th, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1-4 April 1964)
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Association Montessori Internationale, 1964
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The Education of Man for a Peaceful World Community: Congress Report of the XIIIth International Montessori Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 1-4, 1964
Conference proceedings, Conferences, International Montessori Congress (13th, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1-4 April 1964)
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Association Montessori Internationale, 1964
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The Education of Man for a Peaceful World Community [program]: XIIIth International Montessori Congress, Amsterdam, Spinoza Lyceum, 1-4 April 1964
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (13th, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1-4 April 1964)
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Association Montessori Internazionale, 1964
Article
A Sense of Community: Montessori's Gift to the Developing Child
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3
Date: 1980
Pages: 7-11
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
Article
Bringing Montessori to the Black Community: A Private School Model
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2
Date: 1981
Pages: 13-17
African American community, African Americans, Americas, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North America, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, United States of America
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Language: English