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Article
Montessori Method; Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses [Review]
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Athenaeum, no. 4415
Date: Jun 8, 1912
Pages: 645
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Language: English
ISSN: 1747-3594
Article
Prospects of Morality-Based Education in the 21st Century
Available from: University of Management and Technology (Pakistan)
Publication: Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, vol. 11, no. 1
Date: 2021
Pages: 1-21
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Abstract/Notes: This article proposes to re-focus education towards morality and universal values, which have always been the traditional aim of education. This paper is designed using a qualitative research method applying content analysis to textual and video materials from a historical and contemporary perspectives. The paper demonstrates morality problems of the current mainstream education systems and how alternative systems are better equipped to inculcate values. It is observed that trans-disciplinary, problem-based and religious education helps build stronger ethical foundation in students regardless of their geographical location or income levels. The article proposes for schools and universities to include community engagement programmes in their curricula, support religious communities through special programmes, and promote values education at all levels not through academic subjects but through studies, research and development of real-life application of ethics at local and international levels. The paper adds value to existing research on ethics and values-based education and calls for further research in the field of education. It is also relevant to policy makers and researchers in public policy disciplines.morality-based education, trans-disciplinary approach, holistic education, universal values, ethics, alternative education
Language: English
DOI: 10.32350/jitc.111.01
ISSN: 2520-0313
Article
Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Asian Studies Review, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: 2016
Pages: 1-16
Asia, India, Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore - Biographic sources, Santiniketan (India), South Asia, Sriniketan (India), Viśva Bhāratī
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Abstract/Notes: This article investigates Rabindranath Tagore’s educational vision, which underpinned the three institutions he set up in India – Santiniketan (1901), Visva-Bharati (1921) and Sriniketan (1922). It argues that this vision is still relevant for the world of today and tomorrow, and that it should be taken into account in designing any educational model for the future. Tagore rejected the modern mechanical learning that focuses merely on cultivation of the individual’s mind, in favour of learning that encourages the creativity, imagination and moral awareness of students. He believed that education should be not for mere “success” or “progress” but for “illumination of heart” and for inculcation of a spirit of sympathy, service and self-sacrifice in the individual, so that s/he could rise above egocentrism and ethnocentrism to a state of global consciousness or worldcentrism. In pursuing this argument, I refer to Tagore’s letters, lectures, interviews and essays, both in Bengali and in English, a body of his short stories, his novel The Home and the World and his allegorical poem “Two Birds”. I also explain his awareness of the educational movements of his time in the West, and draw brief parallels with selected Western luminaries in the field, such as Plato, Montaigne, Rousseau and John Dewey. My contention is that although some may dismiss Tagore’s educational principles as “rickety sentimentalism” in a world that is palpable and real, his ideas of human fellowship, unity and creativity, and kinship for nature seem irrefutable with the rise of multiculturalism and the looming ecological crisis threatening world peace.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2015.1125441
ISSN: 1035-7823
Article
Some Recent Empirical Research on Montessori Education in Italy
Publication: MoRE Montessori Research Europe newsletter, no. 1
Date: 2009
Europe, Italy, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Maria Montessori’s position on scientific pedagogy and her method involves two problem areas: firstly, the necessity to clarify and define the relationship between scientific pedagogy and other sciences, particularly anthropology and physiological and experimental psychology, and, secondly, the necessity to delineate a research method and objectives. She explicitly recognised the importance of these new fields of experimental science, defining them not coincidently as corner stones of new pedagogy referring above all to their contribution to the development of observation procedures for the discovery of children’s psychological and morphological characteristics.
Language: English
ISSN: 2281-8375
Report
Preschool Education for Inner-City Children: Preliminary Results of an Experimental Montessori Programme
Available from: ERIC
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Abstract/Notes: Early results from a Montessori nursery program initiated by Toronto, Canada, in 1971, to help inner-city children prepare for formal education indicate that the mothers of the 15 three- and four-year-old children were pleased with the program. Specifically, they felt that the children had increased their verbal skills, preparedness for junior kindergarten, and social maturity. However, not all mothers were pleased with the increased independence shown by some of the children. A study of the children's characteristics suggested that caution should be exerted in extrapolating the findings from other so-called disadvantaged children to inner-city children in one's own city. Other data are useful but the needs of a particular population must be carefully observed. When isolating deficiencies or identity needs, wholesale generalizations from superficial measures should not be made. Precise and explicit definitions should be made for such terms as deficient in language, intellectual motivation, or conceptual ability. Otherwise inadequate solutions are likely to result. (JS)
Language: English
Published: Toronto, Canada, Nov 1971
Article
The Potential for Using Visual Elicitation in Understanding Preschool Teachers' Beliefs of Appropriate Educational Practices
Available from: African Journals Online
Publication: South African Journal of Education, vol. 32, no. 4
Date: 2012
Pages: 393-405
Africa, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, East Africa, Kenya, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Abstract/Notes: We explore the use of video and photo elicitation in a research study undertaken to understand the way in which preschool teachers perceive and construct their provision of children’s educational experiences. We explore the value of visually elicited interviews based on video footage and photographs captured during teaching and learning in four classrooms in two preschool settings in Kenya. Through visually elicited interviews, both the teachers and the researcher constructed meaningful conversations (interviews) to explore preschool teachers’ practical experiences and their beliefs, understanding and interpretation of developmentally appropriate educational practices. This paper targets the possible value of and contribution made by visual data generation procedures, as well as their inherent challenges, in order to add to the body of knowledge on visually elicited interviews.
Language: English
ISSN: 2076-3433
Book
Les Case dei Bambini: La Méthode de la Pédagogie Scientifique Appliquée à l'Éducation des tout Petits [The Case Dei Bambini: The Method of Scientific Pedagogy Applied to the Education of Toddlers]
Children's House (Casa dei Bambini), Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Writings
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Language: French
Published: Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Delachaux-Niestlé, 1912
Edition: [1st edition Swiss]
Series: Collection d'actualités pédagogiques publiée sous les auspices de l'Institut J.J. Rousseau
Book Section
Movement and its Part in Education
Book Title: Education for a New World
Pages: 37-42
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2007
ISBN: 978-90-79506-12-5
Series: The Montessori Series , 5
Article
Good Kids: Virtues Project Resonates to Montessori Education Principles
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 17, no. 2
Date: Winter 2005
Pages: 12-13
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Book
Cosmic Education
Cosmic education, Mario M. Montessori - Writings
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Association Montessori Internationale, 1976