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Montessoribarn är de värsta barnen vi kan få hit [Montessori children are the worst children we can get here]
Publication: Montessori-tidningen (Svenska montessoriförbundet), no. 3
Date: 2000
Pages: 26
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Language: Swedish
ISSN: 1103-8101
Book Section
Kindesmisshandlung und Kinderschutz: Problemangemessene Hilfen zwischen karitativer Mildtätigkeit und fürsorglicher Belagerung [Child abuse and child protection: Problem-appropriate assistance between charitable charity and caring investment]
Book Title: Montessori-Pädagogik und die Erziehungsprobleme der Gegenwart [Montessori Pedagogy and Current Educational Problems]
Pages: 65-95
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Language: German
Published: Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen und Neumann, 1990
ISBN: 3-88479-423-X
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Beyond Developmentalism? Early Childhood Teachers' Understandings of Multiage Grouping in Early Childhood Education and Care
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, vol. 34, no. 4
Date: 2009
Pages: 55-63
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Abstract/Notes: Postdevelopmental perspectives in early childhood education and care increasingly reference alternative ways of understanding learning, growth and development in early learning. Drawing on these ideas, this paper examines research findings which focused on early childhood teachers' understandings of multiage grouping. The findings suggested that teachers used predominantly developmental approaches to describing their experiences of multiage grouping, and proposed that the use of postdevelopmental perspectives in multiage grouping research has the potential to realise new ways of understanding learning and development as both concepts and practices within the multiage classroom.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1177/183693910903400408
ISSN: 1836-9391, 1839-5961
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The Child, a Pole of Humanity: The Future Adult Cannot Be Constructed Harmoniously If the Child Has Not Been Able to Develop Harmoniously
Publication: Montessori Articles (Montessori Australia Foundation)
Date: n.d.
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Language: English
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Transforming theories of childhood and early childhood education: Child study and the empirical assault on Froebelian rationalism
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, vol. 45, no. 4
Date: 2009
Pages: 585-604
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Abstract/Notes: This article considers the possibility that one of the defining characteristics of the New Education, as it related to children in their early years, was its epistemological break with rationalist forms of knowledge and its embrace of empiricism and positivism. It considers, briefly, social theories that identify a similar process at a societal level before examining some of the polemics directed against theories of education based on rational forms of knowledge and, in particular, Froebel’s system. This theme is then pursued through a detailed consideration of the child study movement in England and its promotion of an empiricist project concerned with the production of knowledge about the child which drew upon the emergent fields of physiology, educational psychology, education and statistics. It is argued that child study helped to create the conditions for these sciences to distinguish themselves from the older philosophical currents from which they emerged. Consideration is then paid to how these transformations reacted on child study and on the Froebel movement. The article concludes that a break did indeed occur in the ways in which education was legitimised and that through the arrival of a new empirically based, scientific approach it became more closely aligned to reforming impulses. Nevertheless, the old philosophical, metaphysical foundations were not vanquished as in a violent rupture but were articulated in a new dialectical synthesis.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/00309230903100965
ISSN: 0030-9230, 1477-674X
Article
[Conference of Childcare in Kansai Region: A Childcare Community in Kansai Area and an Idea of Montessori Education]
Publication: Fujin to Kodomo [Woman and Child], vol. 15, no. 4
Date: 1915
Pages: 151-158
Asia, Conferences, East Asia, Japan, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: Japanese
Book
The Child and Society: Essays in Applied Child Development
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1979
ISBN: 978-0-19-502372-5 0-19-502372-2 978-0-19-502371-8 0-19-502371-4
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What If Our Children Knew of Bali? A Teacher Reflects on a Culture in Which Children Are Respected
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 2, no. 1
Date: Feb 1994
Pages: 15–16
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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The 'Cosmic' Task of the Youngest Children – Direct, Anticipate or Respect? Experiences Working with Small Children
Available from: Stockholm University Press
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research and Education, vol. 2, no. 1
Date: 2019
Pages: 1–12
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Abstract/Notes: The article derived from Grazia Honegger Fresco’s years in close cooperation with Maria Montessori and Adele Costa Gnocchi. The author illustrates how small children from the moment they start using their hands and are standing unassisted on their own legs must act in their own way. The teacher must observe before acting and intervene as little as possible. Honegger Fresco follows the work of Montessori and Costa Gnocchi and she compares the findings with different fields of science, such as ethnology and neurology. As a result of her observations and experiences she points toward the relationship between a good childhood, and in the long term, human responsibility on Earth, using the concept “the Cosmic Task”. The method in this article is based on autoethnography, as the author shares her personal experience and reflections, both as a teacher and as an educator. The aim is to shed light on aspects regarding the needs of small children and to point at the essential role of adults, educators as well as parents. As Schiedi explains, autoethnography “extends its narrative horizon to a social, professional, organizational dimension of the self” (2016). During Honegger Fresco’s career, she was primarily inspired by Maria Montessori’s research about child development and children’s needs and rights, and she had continuously deepened her understanding by studying other researchers in this field. Thus, the article will share her conviction that by serving the creative spirit of the youngest children we will build a better future for our planet.
Language: English
DOI: 10.16993/jmre.10
ISSN: 2002-3375
Article
Peer Interactions During Storybook Reading on Children's Knowledge Construction: An Experimental Study on K2 and K3 Children
Available from: Frontiers in Education
Publication: Frontiers in Education - Educational Psychology, vol. 9
Date: 2024
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Abstract/Notes: This study explored the effects of peer interactions on kindergarten children’s construction of conservation and conflict resolution knowledge during storybook reading. Previous studies have identified that peer interactions can support the meaning-making processes of children in social relationships and problem-solving, but little is known about whether the interaction with mixed-age or more competent peers is more important in supporting knowledge construction. Sixty-four younger children in K2 and older children in K3 with similar socioeconomic backgrounds were recruited from a Montessori kindergarten in Kunming, China. An experimental design was applied to explore age group and conserver dominance effects on conservation and conflict resolution. Children were assigned randomly to eight groups in three 30-to-40-minute intervention sessions. Each session had a different theme for the children to learn about conservation and conflict resolution concepts and a hands-on activity to practice and discuss. ANOVAs were performed to test group effects, while multiple regression analyses were conducted to explore individual variations in age and pre-test scores in predicting post-test scores. Conservation knowledge was significantly better among children who differed in age groups in the post-test, but differences were not found in conflict resolution knowledge. Groups balanced with equal conservers and non-conservers improved the best, suggesting that peer social interactions can facilitate conservation and conflict resolution construction. These results provide new insights for early childhood educators to support peer interactions and children’s development. Implications, limitations, and future research are discussed.
Language: English
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1253782
ISSN: 2504-284X