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An Analysis of Activities in Preschool Settings. Final Report
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Abstract/Notes: This research was aimed at an analysis of classroom activities which make up educational programs for young children. Its broad purpose was to analyze systematically and to make comparisons among six preschool programs in order to describe the patterns of activity settings used; the objectives activity settings were designed to reach from the point of view of their designers, classroom teachers; and the social behaviors of teachers and children which are shaped and molded by the requirements of settings and which have not necessarily been planned for or recognized by teachers. The six preschool settings used for the study include a Montessori nursery school, a Head Start program, two laboratory nursery school classrooms, a franchise day care center, and a community day care center. The first section of the report contains discussion of related research, a theoretical model, the six preschool classrooms, and the research procedures. The presentation of the results comprises the rest of the report. The findings are divided into three parts: a quantified picture of six classrooms in terms of activity characteristics and social interaction; an exploration of the relations between the activity and social interaction values; and an examination of the relationship of the personal characteristics of the children to activity participation and social interaction. (SDH)
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C., 1973
Article
Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge, Institutional Reform and Preschool
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 3, no. 1
Date: Fall 1990
Pages: 6
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Book
Presentation of a Second Language in a Montessori Class
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Abstract/Notes: Reprinted from the Constructive Triangle (v. 3, no. 1, Fall 1967)
Language: English
Published: Broadview Heights, Ohio: American Montessori Society, 1970
Article
Extracts from the Address of Mrs. Bhalchandra at the Pre-School Education-Rural, Held at Seminar Hyderabad Deccan, India, in 1964
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1965, no. 1
Date: 1965
Pages: 16-20
Asia, India, Rural education, South Asia
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Mental Health of the Pre-School Child
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 12
Date: 1968
Pages: 62-66
Asia, Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, India, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: Speech given at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health at the Seminar of Health Problems of the Pre-School Child.
Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
Book
La Formazione dell'Uomo nella Ricostruzione Mondiale: Atti dell'VIII Congresso Internazionale Montessori, presiduto da Maria Montessori, San Remo, 22-29 agosto 1949
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (8th, San Remo, Italy, 22-29 August 1949)
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Language: Italian
Published: Roma, Italy: Lamagna, 1950
Book
La formazione dell'uomo nella ricostruzione mondiale [programma]: 8. Congresso internazionale Montessori, presieduto da Maria Montessori, San Remo, 22-29 agosto [1949]
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (8th, San Remo, Italy, 22-29 August 1949)
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Abstract/Notes: Man's Formation for World Reconstruction [Program]: The 8th International Montessori Congress, Conducted by Maria Montessori, San Remo, 22-29 August, 1949
Language: Italian
Published: Roma, Italy: Lamagna, [1949]
Article
Feminization in Preschool
Available from: APA PsycNet
Publication: Developmental Psychology, vol. 7, no. 1
Date: Jul 1972
Pages: 86-86
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Abstract/Notes: Examined the suggestion that elementary school teachers are more reinforcing of female students and feminine behaviors. Videotape records of 14 classes of 13-20 4-yr-olds each from 4 types of educational programs were examined. Instructional contact and positive reinforcement were tallied. Girls received more instructional contact than boys in all 4 programs and in 10 of the 14 classes (p < .001). Girls also received more positive reinforcement in 3 of the programs and in 7 of the classes (p < .001). No significant difference was found in the number of reinforcements per instructional contact. It is concluded that the results reflect the higher number of instructional contacts to girls rather than teachers being more reinforcing to them.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1037/h0032926
ISSN: 1939-0599, 0012-1649
Book Section
The Cognitive Effects of Pre-School Programs for Disadvantaged Children
Book Title: Revisiting Early Childhood Education
Pages: 223-240
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973
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The Montessori Preschool Landscape in the United States: History, Programmatic Inputs, Availability, and Effects
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: ETS Research Report Series, vol. 2019, no. 1
Date: 2019
Pages: 1-20
Americas, Montessori method of education, North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: The Day 1 Academies Fund aims to support a network of high-quality, full-scholarship, Montessori-inspired preschools in underserved communities. To provide insight into the fund's pedagogical inspiration, in this report I provide a high-level overview of the Montessori preschool landscape in the United States. This overview includes 5 key programmatic elements of a traditional Montessori approach to teaching and learning in classrooms serving preschool-aged children, the reported availability of Montessori programs that enroll 3- and 4-year-old children, and what is known about enrollees' demographics. To situate this information in the larger, publicly financed, early education policy context, I also provide similar data for state-funded pre-K and federally funded Head Start programs for preschoolers. In addition, I review research on children's outcomes after participating in U.S.-based Montessori preschool and elementary programs. This overview provides some context for understanding how the Day 1 Academies Fund eventually defines the constructs of high quality, Montessori inspired, and underserved. This review also suggests it could be useful for the Fund's stakeholders to undertake short-term research examining the current early education options of families with low incomes living in low-access-to-Montessori states as well as long-term research aimed at expanding the research base on the effects of Montessori programs aimed at preschoolers.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1002/ets2.12252
ISSN: 2330-8516