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Article
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
Guiding Children 'Back from the Edge' Preparing an Environment to Support Children at Risk
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 42, no. 2
Date: 2017
Pages: 169-190
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: "The children who demand more attention than others, who are disruptive, unmotivated, oppositional, aggressive, or do not give us the positive feedback we get from others…This is where we dig in and find compassion, and understanding, and the knowledge that no child wants to be disruptive, oppositional, or aggressive. They do this because they are hurt, and we are here to help." Sarah Werner Andrews provides an approach to the children who pose a challenge because they themselves are facing challenges. She offers practical tools and approaches that are first based on positive relationships, then on the relationship with the environment, and finally on positive, collaborative interventions. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled "Children on the Edge: Creating a Path for Happy, Healthy Development," January 12-15, 2017 in New Orleans, LA.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
Spaces for Children: Listing to Young Children about Their Early Childhood Environments
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 84
Date: Jul 2007
Pages: 16–17
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Master's Thesis
Komunikace s předškolními dětmi v pedagogice M. Montessori (Děti s českým a jiným mateřským jazykem) / Communication with pre-school children in Montessori approach (Children with Czech and other first language)
Available from: Univerzita Karlova Institutional Repository
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Abstract/Notes: The goal of this thesis is to describe teachers' communication with toddlers and pre- schoolers from mono- and bilingual families in Montessori schools or schools inspired by the Montessori method. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical and contains chapters on children's communication and communication with children, its forms and specific aspects; language and language acquisition, bilingualism, the founder of Montessori education, the Montessori education per se and communication with children according to its principles. The second part is practical and presents an analysis of the pragmatic component of teachers' communication with children through audio recordings or hand-written notes taken during participant observation. It focuses on the characteristics and specific features of teachers' communication with children in Montessori pre- schools. It includes the description of communication environment which complements the teachers' communication with children. It also contains semi-structured interviews with teachers and photographs in the attachment. / Cílem této diplomové práce je charakterizovat komunikaci učitelek s dětmi batolecího a předškolního věku z mono- i z bilingvních rodin, v zařízeních typu Montessori nebo v zařízeních touto pedagogikou inspirovaných. Diplomová práce je tvořena dvěma částmi - první, teoretickou část, představují kapitoly o komunikaci dětí a s dětmi, jejích formách a specificích, o jazyku a jeho osvojování, o bilingvismu, o zakladatelce pedagogiky Montessori a jejích metodách a o komunikaci s dětmi v tomto výchovném směru. Druhá, praktická část, prezentuje analýzu pragmatické složky komunikace učitelek s dětmi, skrze audio nahrávky či písemné záznamy komunikace ze zúčastněného pozorování. Zaměřuje se na charakteristiku a specifické rysy komunikace učitelek s dětmi v Montessori zařízeních předškolního typu. Věnuje se také popisu komunikačního prostředí, který doplňuje komunikaci učitelek s dětmi, stejně tak jako polostrukturované rozhovory s učitelkami a fotografie, jež uvádíme v příloze.
Language: Czech
Published: Prague, Czechia, 2022
Article
Making Room for Children's Autonomy: Maria Montessori's Case for Seeing Children's Incapacity for Autonomy as an External Failing
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 50, no. 3
Date: 2016
Pages: 332-350
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Abstract/Notes: This article draws on Martha Nussbaum's distinction between basic, internal, and external (or combined) capacities to better specify possible locations for children's ‘incapacity’ for autonomy. I then examine Maria Montessori's work on what she calls ‘normalization’, which involves a release of children's capacities for autonomy and self-governance made possible by being provided with the right kind of environment. Using Montessori, I argue that, in contrast to many ordinary and philosophical assumptions, children's incapacities for autonomy are best understood as consequences of an absence of external conditions necessary for children to exercise capacities they already have internally, rather than intrinsic limitations based on their stage of life. In a closing section, I show how Montessori proposes a model wherein both children and adults have autonomy, power, and responsibility, but over different spheres, and suggest implications of these differences for who has responsibility for establishing the conditions under which children can flourish.
Language: English
ISSN: 1467-9752
Book
Listening to God with Children: The Montessori Method Applied to the Catechesis of Children
Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education, Religious education
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Language: English
Published: Loveland, Ohio: Treehaus Communications, 2000
Edition: [2nd ed.]
ISBN: 1-886510-14-8 978-1-886510-14-2
Article
Montessori and the Hyperactive Learning Disabled Child
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1978, no. 1
Date: 1978
Pages: 31–34
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Enduring Music for Children of All Ages
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 17, no. 4
Date: Fall 2005
Pages: 46
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Champion the Cause of All Children
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 77
Date: Oct 2005
Pages: 18–20
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (25th, Sydney, Australia, 14-17 July 2005)
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Abstract/Notes: 25th International Montessori Congress, Sydney, July, 2005
Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Article
Montessori Children: Orestes
Publication: The Montessori Magazine: A Quarterly Journal for Teachers, Parents and Social Workers (India), vol. 4, no. 3
Date: Jul 1950
Pages: 46-49
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Language: English