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Article
Nature Engagement and Students' Attention and Experience in School: A Proposal for New Research in Montessori Schools
Publication: NAMTA Bulletin
Date: May 2007
Pages: 1-5
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
Book
Montessori for a Home Based Curriculum: A Study, with Particular Attention to the Day Care Education Project, Ithaca, New York
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Language: English
Published: Ithaca, New York: Montessori Workshop, [1978]
Book Section
La concentrazione dell'attenzione e la sua portata nell'odierna pedagogia [The concentration of attention and its importance in today's pedagogy]
Book Title: Maria Montessori e il pensiero pedagogico contemporaneo [Maria Montessori and contemporary pedagogical thought]
Pages: 199-206
Conferences, Helene Helming - Writings, International Montessori Congress (11th, Rome, Italy, 26-28 September 1957)
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Abstract/Notes: This speech was delivered on September 27, 1957 at the 11th International Montessori Congress (Rome, Italy).
Language: Italian
Published: Roma, Italy: Vita dell'infanzia, 1959
Article
Attention to Detail: Lunch Beverages
Publication: Point of Interest, vol. 7, no. 2
Date: Oct 1996
Pages: 4
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Language: English
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Liberty, Discipline and Pedagogy: Mapping Pathways Towards Social and Cultural Independence Through the Regulation of Activity and Attention in a Montessori Classroom
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Abstract/Notes: The term discipline weaves together, through its etymology and use, both learning and regulation, suggesting that one cannot be achieved without the other. It is in this sense, that Dr Maria Montessori applied the term as she designed her distinctive pedagogy during the first half of the twentieth century. Her aim was for children to regulate their activity and their attention through interaction with meticulously designed objects combined with precise language, including the language of educational disciplines. What distinguishes Montessori pedagogy is that children’s liberty is identified as both the means and the end of this regulation. Liberty and discipline were considered by Dr Montessori (1998 [1939], p. 41) to be ‘two faces of the same coin, two faces of the same action’. Montessori’s emphasis on liberty locates her pedagogy in the Enlightenment tradition, but her simultaneous emphasis on discipline, in both senses, reveals an orientation out of step with the tradition of Rousseau, the tradition which remains in the foreground whenever pedagogy is linked with the legacy of the Enlightenment. This paper presents Montessori’s pedagogy of liberty and discipline as one realisation of another, less visible, Enlightenment tradition. This tradition comes into clearer view when human development is perceived as socially, and therefore, semiotically, mediated (Vygotsky 1986 [1934]) and pedagogy is perceived as discipline knowledge embedded in a regulating social order (Bernstein 2000).
Language: English
Presented: University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia: Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language (Symposium), Dec 2008
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Attention
Book Title: The Advanced Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to the Education of Children: Spontaneous Activity in Children
Pages: 115-126
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Abstract/Notes: First published in Italian in 1915, the English translation, titled The Advanced Montessori Method, vol. 1: Spontaneous Activity in Education, was first published in 1917.
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori Pierson Publishing Company, 2018
ISBN: 978-90-79506-27-9
Series: The Montessori Series , 9
Volume: 1 of 2
Book Section
Attention [3 April 1913]
Book Title: The 1913 Rome Lectures: First International Training Course
Pages: 183-194
International Montessori Training Course (1st, Rome, Italy, 1913), Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2018
Article
Adolescents' Quality of Attention and Affect After Morning Nature Walks: Findings from a Study of Nature and Education at Five Montessori Schools
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 35, no. 3
Date: 2010
Pages: 211–251
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
The Prospect for the Scientific Study of Kindergarten Education [with Critical Attention to the Methodology of Dr. Montessori]
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: The Kindergarten and First Grade, vol. 2, no. 5
Date: May 1917
Pages: 189-194
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Language: English
Article
Helping Children with Attentional Challenges in the Montessori Classroom: Introduction
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 42, no. 2
Date: 2017
Pages: 263-285
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention-deficit-disordered children, Children with disabilities, Inclusive education, Montessori method of education, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, People with disabilities
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Abstract/Notes: Catherine Nehring Massie provides important contextual information in considering children with attentional challenges. She discusses the prevalence of attentional challenges in today's culture and the contributing factors. She gives a general overview of the spectrum of attentional challenges and some of the indicators in children. Her history of Montessori and work with children facing attentional challenges provides a clearer understanding to the individual details and definitions as it builds upon years of work and observation. Critical to her article and those that follow is the link she draws between concentration (attention) and human development: "Attention lays the foundation for concentrated work--normalization of the child's personality." By partnering Montessori with medical knowledge, fostering focus and attentional development can be better achieved. [This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled "Finding the Hook: Montessori Strategies to Support Concentration," October 6-9, 2016, in Columbia, MD.]
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734