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Article
Children Helping Children: Montessori Students Build a School in Somalia
Publication: AMI/USA News, vol. 8, no. 2
Date: Apr 1995
Pages: 7
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Language: English
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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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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
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Flotsam and Jetsam; Amsterdam - Children at Montessori Primary Schools Perform Better than Other Children in Traditional Schools
Available from: Digital Library of the Caribbean
Publication: Bonaire Reporter (Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands)
Date: Sep 30, 2013
Pages: 3
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Language: English
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What's Eating Our Children: Eating Disorders in Young Children
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 1, no. 5
Date: Oct 1993
Pages: 8–9
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Abstract/Notes: An interview with Darlene M. Atkins
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Kinder lernen auch von Kindern: zur Jahrgangsmischung an Montessori-Schulen [Children also learn from children: for a mixed-age group in Montessori schools]
Publication: Montessori: Zeitschrift für Montessori-Pädagogik, vol. 37, no. 1
Date: 1999
Pages: 20-27
Montessori method of education, Nongraded schools
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Language: German
ISSN: 0944-2537
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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
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Children in Space: Building with Children in Mind: An Architectural Perspective
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 1, no. 2
Date: Mar 1993
Pages: 3–6
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Integrated Edcuaton of Healthy Children and Children with Multiple and Variable Disorders
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1981, no. 1/2
Date: 1981
Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, Special education
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
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The Children's Garden and the Children's House
Available from: Internet Archive
Publication: New Era in Home and School, vol. 33, no. 3
Date: Mar 1952
Pages: 50-54
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Language: English
ISSN: 0028-5048