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Article
Celebrating Diversity at a Public Montessori School [Hull-Jackson Montessori Magnet School, Nashville, TN]
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 77
Date: Oct 2005
Pages: 24–25
Americas, North America, Public Montessori, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Article
Reports from the Educational Field; Performance Tests with Pre-School-Age Children (Merrill-Palmer School)
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Journal of Education (Boston), vol. 98, no. 10
Date: Sep 20, 1923
Pages: 272-273
Americas, Early childhood education - Evaluation, Merrill-Palmer School, Montessori method of education - Evaluation, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0022-0574, 2515-5741
Article
Primary Schools [Stepping Stones, North Western, Southside Primary School, Forestville Montessori School]
Publication: Montessori Matters, no. 1
Date: 1985
Pages: 7
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Montessori schools, Oceania
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Language: English
Article
Charleston [South Carolina] Independent School Becomes Public 'School of Choice'
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 9, no. 3
Date: Spring 1997
Pages: 30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
School Focus: Farmhouse Montessori School [North Balgowlah, Australia]
Publication: Montessori Matters
Date: Dec 2004
Pages: 19
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Language: English
Article
The OEkos Schools Program [13 participating schools]
Publication: OEkosphere [Œkosphere], vol. 1, no. 5
Date: Nov/Dec 1995
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Article
Middle School Students’ Motivation and Quality of Experience: A Comparison of Montessori and Traditional School Environments
Available from: University of Chicago Press
Publication: American Journal of Education, vol. 111, no. 3
Date: 2005
Pages: 341-371
Comparative education, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Motivation (Psychology)
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Abstract/Notes: This study compared the motivation and quality of experience of demographically matched students from Montessori and traditional middle school programs. Approximately 290 students responded to the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and filled out questionnaires. Multivariate analyses showed that the Montessori students reported greater affect, potency (i.e., feeling energetic), intrinsic motivation, flow experience, and undivided interest (i.e., the combination of high intrinsic motivation and high salience or importance) while engaged in academic activities at school. The traditional middle school students reported higher salience while doing academic work; however, such responses were often accompanied by low intrinsic motivation. When engaged in informal, nonacademic activities, the students in both school contexts reported similar experiences. These results are discussed in terms of current thought on motivation in education and middle school reform.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1086/428885
ISSN: 0195-6744, 1549-6511
Article
Public School Leaders: Eleni and Dennis Wanken on What Montessorians Can Do When They Provide Leadership to Public School Districts
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 13, no. 3
Date: Spring 2001
Pages: 12-13
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Doctoral Dissertation
Skolans Levda Rum och Lärandets Villkor: Meningsskapande i Montessoriskolans Fysiska Miljö [The School's Living Space and the Conditions of Learning: Creating Meaning in the Montessori School's Physical Environment]
Architecture, Design, Environment, Europe, Nordic countries, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Sweden
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Abstract/Notes: This study examines the school’s physical environment as a place of learning, and takes its starting point in the phenomenology movement, inspired both by Merleau-Ponty’s thesis of man’s physical relation to the world and by the existential analysis represented by Heidegger which implies a mutual relationship between man and the world. Such a view rejects a standpoint which describes man as being divided between a material body and a thinking soul. Instead, there emerges an embodied self which engages in meaningful interaction with its surroundings. The choice of this standpoint has implications for the design of the school’s physical environment. Montessori pedagogy is one of the activity-based pedagogies which have designed the physical environment in line with this theory. The purpose of the study is to understand, but further to visualise, the way in which the conditions for learning for children and adolescents are created in schools, from pre-school to lower secondary level, which follow the Montessori pedagogy. The material for the empirical study has been gathered from Europe and the US and from differing social contexts. The reason for this is to discover what distinguishes the prepared environment. The study also discusses the way in which the argument for a form of schooling which is based on activity, from the early 20th century to the present day, has been addressed through the architectural design of schools. The thesis shows that the rich array of didactic material in the schools observed offers pupils the opportunity to perform activities which create meaning. The organisation of the environment provides the pupils with the necessary conditions to concentrate fully on their work and to complete their tasks without interruption. I see the didactic continuity which prevails from pre-school to the lower secondary school in the Montessori schools studied as a prerequisite if the pedagogical activity is to offer meaning and create the conditions for learning in the way demonstrated by the empirical studies.
Language: Swedish
Published: Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
Article
Montessori Elementary School Update: The South London Montessori School
Publication: Montessori Society Review, vol. 2
Date: 1993
Pages: 4–5
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Language: English