Abstract/Notes: El artículo ofrece una mirada centrada en el Estado de Colima, México y en el envejecimiento de su población. Esta situación plantea desafíos que son asumidos desde la propuesta de la filosofía Montessori que plantea que la intervención con personas mayores se realice desde las necesidades de ellos mismos, traspasando la perspectiva asistencial. La perspectiva de trabajo con personas mayores asumida desde el modelo Montessori busca ayudar al desarrollo natural del Ser Humano, estimular a la persona a tener seguridad y respeto, favorecer a la responsabilidad y el desarrollo de la autodisciplina, libertad para desarrollar el propio control, desarrollar la capacidad de participación para que sea aceptado, guiar en la formación espiritual e intelectual y reconocer que se construye así mismo.

Language: Spanish

ISSN: 0719-7721

Abstract/Notes: "It seems to me that we have been wrong to discard Montessori altogether…, " said Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaia at a Moscow gathering of teachers of zero-level groups in 1931. It is worth recalling that Nadezhda Konstantinovna more than once drew the attention of preschool upbringing theoreticians and practitioners to the necessity of making a critical study of the pedagogical views and pedagogical experience of Froebel and Montessori. It was indisputable that they were engaged in "arch-bourgeois preschool upbringing"; nevertheless, it would be worthwhile to "borrow those things that are useful to us." But what is "useful to us" in the theory and practice of Montessori? This is the question that we will attempt to answer.

Language: English

DOI: 10.2753/RES1060-9393340383

ISSN: 1060-9393

Abstract/Notes: Teaching and educational M. Montessori's system, called also Montessori's education or method, despite the passing years is still alternative for traditional education and works in school practice in many countries in Europe and beyond its borders. It also works in Poland. Although that system was created by M. Montessori more than a hundred years ago it is still interpreted anew. This happens because of the many undeniable advantages and special its author's resume. The aim of this article is presenting the basic establishment of M. Montessori's teaching and educational system and guidelines and examples of projects of practical solutions that are adaptation of the system to the conditions, challenges and tasks that polish, still reforming school is facing.

Language: Polish

ISSN: 2544-5243

Abstract/Notes: Compra online il PDF di Scienze umane e pratica di democrazia : da Maria Montessori a Franco Basaglia, Babini, Valeria P. - Franco Angeli - Articolo

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.3280/RSF2013-001002

ISSN: 1972-5582, 1129-6437

Abstract/Notes: Although the English Montessori Movement was declining, two educators, trained in the Method in England in the 1920s, contributed significantly to the continuity of Montessori education. “A Sister of Notre Dame”, was the anonymous author of A Scottish Montessori School, published in1932. The “Nun of Calabar”, established Montessori schools between 1926 and 1934 in Nigeria. Their work is placed within the political, social, and cultural context of the time.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36253/rse-10344

ISSN: 2532-2818

Abstract/Notes: The study takes advantage from the reconstruction of the cultural atmosphere widely characterizing the Early Twentieth Century for the powerful raising of spirituality. Among the modernist tendencies, the success of Theosophy took a relevant place in renewing contemporary feelings of religion and piety. Particularly, the essay highlights the relevance of the spiritual cenacle working at the Montesca House, where the first edition of the Montessori’s Method was accomplished. Theosophical characters also moved around this spiritual circle and some of them played a distinctive role in the first transfer of the Montessori’s system to France.   

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.36253/rse-10354

ISSN: 2532-2818

Abstract/Notes: Manipulatives are ubiquitous in early childhood classrooms; yet, findings regarding their efficacy for learning mathematics concepts are inconsistent. In this article, we present four general principles that have emerged from cognitive science about ways to ensure that manipulatives promote learning when used with young children. We also describe how Montessori instruction offers a concrete example of the application of these principles in practice, which may, in turn, explain the high levels of mathematics achievement among children who attend Montessori programs during early childhood. The general principles and concrete examples presented in this article should help early childhood programs maximize the benefits of using manipulatives for developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/2158244015589588

ISSN: 2158-2440

Abstract/Notes: This qualitative ethnographic case study explored the evolution of a public urban high school in its 3rd year of small school reform. The study focused on how the high school proceeded from its initial concept, moving to a small school program, and emerging as a new small high school. Data collection included interviews, observations, and document review to develop a case study of one small high school sharing a multiplex building. The first key finding, “Too Many Pieces, Not Enough Glue,” revealed that the school had too many new programs starting at once and they lacked a clear understanding of their concept and vision for their new small school, training on the Montessori philosophies, teaching and learning in small schools, and how to operate within a teacher-cooperative model. The second key finding, “A Continuous Struggle,” revealed that the shared building space presented problems for teachers and students. District policies remain unchanged, resulting in staff and students resorting to activist approaches to get things done. These findings offer small school reform leaders suggestions for developing and sustaining a small school culture and cohesion despite the pressures to revert back to top-down, comprehensive high school norms.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/2158244013486789

ISSN: 2158-2440

Abstract/Notes: The birth of Montessori’s Case dei Bambini (“Children’s Houses”) and the adoption of her innovative teaching method constitute an interesting chapter in the renewal of educational practices in Italy in the early years of the 20th century. Spreading from North to South, the biggest impact was felt where the social question was most acute. Milan, Rome and Città di Castello (the location of the Villa Montesca belonging to Leopoldo Franchetti and his wife Alice Hallgarten), together with very small communities such as those of Ferruzzano and Saccuti in the province of Reggio Calabria, were ideal contexts in which to test the assumptions of Maria Montessori’s approach to pedagogy. Specifically, this paper examines the experience of the Children’s Houses and nursery schools set up in Calabria by the Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d’Italia (ANIMI, the National Association for the Interests of the Italian Mezzogiorno). The use of partly unpublished materials kept in the Association’s Historic Archive makes it possible to reconstruct the enthusiasm for the Montessori method of some teachers who were not from Calabria and to assess its positive effects on the children, who were among the country’s most neglected, often condemned to a series of privations. 

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.36253/rse-10369

ISSN: 2532-2818

Abstract/Notes: Giuliana Sorge (1903-1987) was one of Maria Montessori’s closest disciples. Many parts of her life are linked to the alternating vicissitudes of the spread of the Method in Italy. She is personally involved at the time of the breakdown of the relation between Maria Montessori and fascism. We find her in the immediate postwar period engaged in the reconstruction of the Montessori National Institution and in the dissemination of the Method in Italy. To do this, she weaves a network of relations with exponents of the political and ecclesiastical world assisted by the friendship of Luigia Tincani, a Catholic, Montessori’s friend, founder of what will become the Free University Maria SS. Assunta and a religious congregation. This emerges from an unpublished correspondence between these two women, which also contains interesting news relating to the hostility of prof. Aldo Agazzi towards the spread of the Montessori Method.

Language: Italian

DOI: 10.36253/rse-10374

ISSN: 2532-2818