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Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.)
Critical Montessori Education: Centering BIPOC Montessori Educators and their Anti-Racist Teaching Practices
Available from: University of Maryland Libraries
Anti-bias, Anti-bias anti-racist curriculum, Anti-bias anti-racist practices, Anti-racism, Montessori method of education - Teachers, People of color, Teachers
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Abstract/Notes: While many BIPOC Montessori educators engage in anti-racist and culturally responsive teaching, Montessori education remains predominantly race-evasive. As a philosophy, it is rooted in colorblind perspectives in its focus on "all children" and lack of explicit centering of BIPOC students’ experiences. Teaching must account for race and racial lived realities in order to better support BIPOC students’ ways of knowing in culturally relevant and sustaining ways. This study seeks to center the voices of BIPOC Montessori educators and disrupt the pattern of Montessori research conducted without a critical racial lens. Framed by Critical Race Theory, this study focuses on the strengths, assets, and anti-racist teaching practices that one BIPOC educator brings to her classroom. I use critical ethnographic methods to better understand how a BIPOC Montessori teacher at a public charter Montessori school interprets and enacts the Montessori method to support BIPOC students. I consider how her racial identity informs her practices, and the structural barriers she faces at her school when enacting anti-racist and strength-based approaches. The guiding research questions of this study are: How does a Black Montessori teacher interpret the Montessori philosophy to more relevantly support her BIPOC students? How does she practice the Montessori method through culturally relevant and sustaining practices? What are the structural barriers that continue to challenge her as a Black educator doing her work? My analysis suggests that the teacher maintains her classroom space as a tangible and intangible cultural space that reflects and maintains her students' identities; that her own identity as a Black woman deeply contribute to the school's work around anti-racism and culturally responsive pedagogy; and that there are external barriers that both the teacher and the school face, that prevent them both from fully achieving culturally responsive teaching practices. At the core of the study, I seek to understand the possibilities and challenges of Montessori education from the perspective of BIPOC Montessori educators, and how we could learn from them to better support BIPOC students. I hope to begin a path toward more counter-stories in the Montessori community to specifically support BIPOC Montessori educators and understand the structural barriers they face to anti-racist teaching in Montessori programs in the United States.
Language: English
Published: College Park, Maryland, 2023
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Koncepcja Marii Montessori a rozwój umiejętności samoobsługowych dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym / The Concept of Maria Montessori and the Development of Self-Care Skills in Children of Preschool Age
Available from: Index Copernicus International
Publication: Pedagogika Przedszkolna i Wczesnoszkolna [Pre-School and Early School Education], vol. 6, no. 2 (whole no. 12)
Date: 2018
Pages: 257-269
Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: The development of self-care skills in children is a part of the Core curriculum for preschool education. The contents regarding formation of such skills include shaping hygiene practices, goodhabits and developing motor skills. Maria Montessori drew attention to the development of selfcare skills and functional independence. In her concept of preschool child education, Maria Montessori developed practical life activities which were intended to serve the development of specificskills and their application to everyday life. Therefore, the aim of the research was to identify thelevel of self-care skills in 4-year-old children attending selected kindergartens located in MińskMazowiecki and Siedlce. The research was conducted on 200 children from Non-public CreativeActivity Montessori Kindergarten ‘Zameczek’ in Siedlce, Non-public Montessori Kindergarten‘Delfinek’ in Mińsk Mazowiecki and 6 traditional kindergartens — 2 of which were located inMińsk Mazowiecki and 4 located in Siedlce. The obtained research results indicated a varied levelof self-care skills depending on kindergarten the children attended.
Language: Polish
ISSN: 2353-7140, 2353-7159
Article
No Public Montessori Conference This Year [Montessori Public School Consortium]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 10, no. 1
Date: Fall 1997
Pages: 30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Acceptance of the Montessori Method in Taisho Era: Focusing on the Material Tools of Montessori
Publication: Hoikugaku kenkyu / 保育学研究 / Research on Early Childhood Care and Education in Japan, vol. 38, no. 2
Date: 2000
Pages: 144-152
Asia, East Asia, Japan, Montessori materials, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools
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Language: Japanese
ISSN: 1340-9808, 2424-1679
Article
Maria Montessori, Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini. Edizione critica, Roma, Edizioni Opera Nazionale Montessori
Available from: La Mediazione Pedagogica
Publication: La Mediazione Pedagogica, vol. 2, no. 1
Date: 2000
Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Maria Montessori - Writings, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - History
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Language: Italian
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Il prossimo Congresso Montessori [The next Montessori Congress]
Publication: Il Progresso italo-americano
Date: 1957
Conferences, International Montessori Congress
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Language: Italian
ISSN: 0746-4924
Book Section
70 Jahre Montessori-Pädagogik in Deutschland [70 Years of Montessori Education in Germany]
Book Title: Kinder Sind Anders: Maria Montessoris Bild vom Kinde auf dem Prüfstand [Children Are Different: Maria Montessori's Picture of the Child on the Test Bench]
Pages: 37-45
Europe, Germany, Montessori method of education, Montessori movement, Montessori schools, Western Europe, Winfried Böhm - Writings
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Language: German
Published: Würzburg, Germany: Ergon, 1996
ISBN: 3-928034-90-1
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Muzikinis vaikų ugdymas M. Montessori sistemoje / Musical training of children according to M. Montessori system
Publication: Pedagogika: mokslo darbai (Vilnius), vol. 63
Date: 2002
Pages: 38–42
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Abstract/Notes: The essential features of musical training according to M. Montessori in Lithuanian preschools have been analysed in the work. The work is revealing the essential features of musical training, their importance in the children's musical development. 72 teachers, working in Lithuanian Montessori preschools participated in the research work...
Language: Lithuanian
ISSN: 1392-0340
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Ein NS-Pamphlet gegen die Montessori-Pädagogik [A Nazi pamphlet against Montessori education]
Publication: Montessori-Werkbrief (Montessori-Vereinigung e.V.), vol. 22, no. 1
Date: 1984
Pages: 16-18
Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP), Europe, Germany, Montessori method of education - History, National socialism, Nazism, Propaganda, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: A National Socialist (Nazi) pamphlet against Montessori pedagogy, January 1936.
Language: German
ISSN: 0722-2513
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The Making of the Montessori Library: Answers from a Public Montessori School Librarian
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 8, no. 1
Date: Fall 1995
Pages: 12-13
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246