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Article
Born to Be Them: Helping Your Child Recognize His or Her Potential
Publication: Forza Vitale!, vol. 20, no. 2
Date: 2001
Pages: 10–11
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Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.)
Race and Childhood in Fascist Italy, 1923-1940
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
Child development, Europe, Fascism, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: This dissertation explores the evolution of Italian Fascist ideas of racial identity between 1923 and 1940 and contends that those ideas led to some of the most significant Fascist policies, such as the invasion of Ethiopia and the passage of the 1938 racial laws. Common belief holds that racism played no role in the doctrine of Benito Mussolini's government. On the contrary, from the very beginning of their regime, Fascists worked to infuse the Italian population with concrete conceptions of their national identity—their italianità—and its superiority over all others. The education of Italian children vividly illustrates the racial project at the heart of Fascist doctrine. One of the regime's earliest priorities was to restructure the national education system in order to more effectively inform the population of the ideals of the new Fascist order. The administration centralized the existing infrastructure and founded the new institutions of the National Organization for the Protection of Mothers and Children (ONMI) and the National Balilla Organization (ONB). Thus, the state embraced all aspects of the young Italian's life, from the cradle to school, on the weekends and during summer vacations. Contemporary textbooks, teaching manuals, pedagogical journals, and government documents reveal an early and lasting commitment to instilling Italy's youngest generations with a collective identity based upon inherited historical, cultural, and spiritual characteristics that resulted in a belief in racial entitlement. As the regime solidified its power, it initiated further changes to the education system with the goal of turning children into ideal Fascists. As it militarized the population and sent Italians to civilize foreign lands, officials created a more direct language that mobilized the nation's youth to protect the fatherland against its enemies. Such a curriculum was unavoidably racist in content, and when Mussolini legalized discrimination against 'non-Italians' in 1938, the pre-existing pedagogy allowed for a relatively smooth transition between pre-racial-law education and post-racial-law education. When Italy entered World War II in 1940, the values were set for Italians to wage a war for national pride and racial privilege.
Language: English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut, 2010
Article
The Children's House Earth to Table program
Publication: Montessori International, vol. Food, no. 112
Date: Jul 2014
Pages: 24–26
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Abstract/Notes: includes photos
Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Book
The Child in the Church: Essays on the Religious Education of Children and the Training of Character
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: American Montessori Society, 1966
Article
Child Care Bill Passed in Illinois
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 2, no. 7
Date: Oct 1981
Pages: 1, 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
Article
How Does the Montessori Child Adjust to Public School?: A Much Needed Study
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 4, no. 1
Date: Mar 1980
Pages: 8
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Language: English
Book Section
The Psychology and Pedagogy of Personality in Young Children
Book Title: Towards a New Education: A Record and Synthesis of the Discussions on the New Psychology and the Curriculum at the Fifth World Conference of the New Education Fellowship held at Elsinore, Denmark, in August 1929
Pages: 368-369
Denmark, Europe, International Conference of the New Education Fellowship (5th, Helsingør/Elsinore, Denmark, 8-21 August, 1929), International Montessori Congress (1st, Helsingør/Elsinore, Denmark, 8-21 August 1929), Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., New Education Fellowship, Nordic countries, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Language: English
Published: New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930
Book
The Secret of Childhood
Available from: Internet Archive
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Language: English
Published: London, England: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936
Article
From Children's House to Adolescent Communities: Montessori Extends through High School
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 24, no. 4
Date: Nov 2016
Pages: 6–9
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Abstract/Notes: includes photos
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Conference Paper
Promoting Achievement in Child Centered Education: Evaluation of a Non-Graded, Multi-age, Continuous Progress Primary School (K-3)
Available from: ERIC
American Education Research Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, April 4-8, 1994)
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Abstract/Notes: An evaluation was conducted of a comprehensive plan to restructure a primary school in Candler County, Georgia, into a non-graded, multi-age, continuous progress learning center. The project entailed restructuring the classroom, implementing a shared decision-making structure, developing a learning curriculum, and using portfolio assessment to monitor student progress. The project was evaluated on three objectives: academic success, positive self-esteem and socialization, and the project's shared decision-making structure. These objectives were evaluated according to a case-study design, with the inclusion of quantitative and qualitative techniques. Academic success was examined through the following instruments: the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, portfolio writing, an informal reading inventory, and teacher ranking. Parent questionnaires, teacher questionnaires, and teacher interviews were used to evaluate positive self-esteem and socialization. Teacher interviews, teacher workshops,
Language: English