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Article
Through the Darkness to the Light: Hope for the World's Children
Available from: Association Montessori Internationale
Publication: AMI Journal (2013-), vol. 2020
Date: 2020
Pages: 314-317
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Language: English
ISSN: 2215-1249, 2772-7319
Article
Eastern Suburbs Montessori School: Sydney, N.S.W.: The Past, the Present and the Future
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: 2002
Pages: 10
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania
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Language: English
Article
The Hand Is the Instrument of the Mind
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 6, no. 3
Date: Aug 1982
Pages: 3
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Language: English
Book
Understanding the Human Being: The Importance of the First Three Years of Life
Child development, Early childhood education, Infants, Parent and child, Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro - Writings, Toddlers
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Abstract/Notes: Originally published in 1987 in Italian as, "Un Essere Umano".
Language: English
Published: Mountain View, California: Nienhuis Montessori USA, 1991
Edition: 1st English ed.
ISBN: 1-879341-00-X 978-1-879341-00-5
Book
The Discovery of the Child: Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Montessori Method
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Language: English
Published: Madras, India: Kalakshetra, [1972]
Article
The Sense of Patterns and Patterns in the Senses: An Approach to the Sensory Area of a Montessori Preschool Classroom
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Education 3-13, vol. 51, no. 6
Date: 2023
Pages: 979-987
Child development, Classroom environments, Montessori method of education, Prepared environment, Senses and sensation in children, Sensorial education, Sensorial materials
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Abstract/Notes: This article presents and analyses a didactic proposal based on manipulative material (Knobless Cylinders) used in a Montessori classroom of 3-6-year-old pre-schoolers. Choosing this material is justified in relation to the competencies/strategies/skills used during the development of mathematical patterning. Numerous studies emphasise the importance of patterns in mathematics and experimental sciences instruction from early childhood onward. However, there are several educational factors that have not yet been clarified, such as meaningful learning, the overuse of abstract visual patterns that are distant from the student’s previous life experience, etc. This article discusses the sequence of proposed activities and certain critical issues.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2022.2032786
ISSN: 0300-4279, 1475-7575
Article
The Developmental Potential of the Child in the First Year of Life
Publication: Montessori Matters, no. 1
Date: 1986
Pages: 9-15
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Language: English
Article
The Teacher Educator and the Suffragist: Lillian De Lissa and Muriel Matters' Activism in Australia and the United Kingdom
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: History of Education, vol. 50, no. 6
Date: 2021
Pages: 820-836
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Lillian de Lissa - Biographic sources, Muriel Matters - Biographic sources, Northern Europe, Oceania, United Kingdom
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Abstract/Notes: Focusing on the transnational circulation of ideas about suffrage and education, this article explores the work of suffragist Muriel Matters (1877–1969), and teacher educator Lillian de Lissa (1885–1967). It begins with Matters’ and de Lissa’s childhoods and education in post-suffrage Australia, and their initial work as an actress and kindergarten teacher respectively. The second section focuses on the development of their politics when Matters migrated to England in 1905 and joined the Women’s Freedom League, and de Lissa became the foundation principal of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College in 1907. The third section discusses their engagement with Maria Montessori’s educational approach, which Matters incorporated into her socialist feminist activism during the First World War, and which led to de Lissa’s recruitment to England as a liberal feminist teacher educator in 1917. The final section highlights their advocacy for Montessori education in the United Kingdom during the interwar years.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2021.1906457
ISSN: 0046-760X, 1464-5130
Article
The Presence of Positivism in Maria Montessori: The Origins and Meaning of the 'Method'
Publication: MoRE Montessori Research Europe newsletter
Date: 2003
Pages: 1-2
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Abstract/Notes: MORE Abstracts 2003: The critical literature has always acknowledged the important role that the positivist Montessori teachers had on Maria Montessori and yet it is also true that the criticism has mostly focused on the subsequent developments of Montessori’s positivist phase. Indeed, when reprinting her works (and Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica is a case in point), Montessori herself often changed and/or added substantial elements while leaving the title of the publication unchanged. This means that the internal process that Montessori thinking underwent over the years has not always been well-understood, so much so that there has been an insistence – at least for many of her followers – on the fecundity of the method without any accurate historical analysis of the conceptual elaboration. In particular, the so-called positivist phase had a greater influence than what may appear on Maria Montessori’s whole intellectual dynamics and such that the fundamental theoretical mainstays are actually identifiable in that very early period, which has sometimes been hastily treated by a more spiritualist critique that has devoted more attention to highlighting the later contributions of this famous educationist (for example, education for peace). The present contribution instead aims to make a more accurate reconstruction of the historical period in which Montessori matured speculatively and to identify the main themes which, even with the inevitable developments determined by her process of reflection and action, constitute the basic themes of her thinking, in order to enable a more suitable historical collocation of this brilliant educationist who was, in many respects, atypical but not forgetful of a training that was, in many respects, decisive.
Language: English
ISSN: 2281-8375
Article
The Socratic Seminar: An Age-Old Method Enhances the Junior Great Books Program at the Montessori School of Syracuse
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 13, no. 1
Date: 2004
Pages: 5–6
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246