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Article
Thinking with the Heart [Holly Berries Montessori, Wimbledon]
Publication: Montessori Education, vol. 7, no. 3
Date: Dec 1995
Pages: 38
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Language: English
ISSN: 1354-1498
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How the Montessori Method Relates to "Left- and Right-Brain Thinking."
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 9, no. 4
Date: Fall 1982
Pages: 15–17
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
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Spatial Thinking and Children's Museums
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 16, no. 1
Date: Winter 1989
Pages: 7–12
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
Article
Design Thinking, Leadership, and the Grammar of Schooling: Implications for Educational Change
Available from: University of Chicago Press
Publication: American Journal of Education, vol. 126, no. 4
Date: 2020
Pages: 499-518
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Abstract/Notes: A growing number of schools across the globe have implemented design thinking (DT) as an instructional approach to increase student engagement, motivate creative thinking, and teach students to problem solve. Although offering significant opportunity to students, implementing DT can involve pushing against the traditional “grammar of schooling.” Drawing on in-depth qualitative case study data, we present findings on a previously low-performing, underenrolled middle school that underwent a dramatic shift when becoming a magnet school focused on DT. We explain the intentional leadership actions that facilitated structural and cultural changes, including building a collaborative leadership structure. Interactions between the principal and the teachers led to the emergence of practices that supported innovation schoolwide. At the same time, internal and external challenges rooted in the grammar of schooling arose, requiring educators to respond to sustain the momentum for change. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1086/709510
ISSN: 0195-6744, 1549-6511
Article
Education for Sustainability at a Montessori Primary School: From Silos to Systems Thinking
Available from: Cambridge University Press
Publication: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 28, no. 2
Date: Dec 2012
Pages: 162-164
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, Sustainability
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Abstract/Notes: This research investigated Education for Sustainability (EfS) at an independent Montessori primary school, located in the Perth metropolitan area of Western Australia. A longitudinal case study involving analysis of data from a 20-year period was conducted to determine the effectiveness of EfS. Historical information about EfS at the school from 1990 to 2005 was examined, with the main focus of the study being on the impact of the Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AuSSI) between 2005 and 2009. AuSSI promotes a whole school, whole systems thinking approach to EfS.Three school-based issues in EfS were studied. First, the research aimed to determine what elements of EfS were in operation in the school prior to involvement in AuSSI. Second, student outcomes including engagement with whole systems thinking, attitudes and values, knowledge and understandings, and skills and behaviours related to EfS, were investigated during the first 5 years of participation in AuSSI. Third, teacher perceptions of the EfS program, including engagement with whole systems thinking, were examined during this same time period. A case study approach was employed to enable in-depth investigation of EfS in the life of the school prior to, during and post implementation of AuSSI. This approach facilitated revelation of participants’ lived experiences, their perceptions and understandings of EfS, as well as detailed information about student outcomes in EfS. Case study methodology was also compatible with the culture and processes of the participating school and provided an opportunity for utilising a whole systems thinking approach. Data was gathered from a range of sources, through surveys, interviews, observation and document analysis over a 5-year period. The total participants included 11 teachers and 75 students. The research identified particular antecedents of EfS in the Montessori method of education that existed in the school prior to AuSSI, including the whole child approach, together with the Montessori learning environment, curriculum and values. Following participation in AuSSI, student attitudes and values, knowledge and understandings, and skills and behaviours related to EfS were enhanced for all year levels. However, after 3 years, when specific EfS actions and projects ceased, student EfS outcomes were limited. Furthermore, students’ thinking and behaviour indicated a ‘silo’, rather than whole systems thinking approach to EfS. Teachers perceived the EfS program as highly effective in the initial 3 years after joining AuSSI. Key elements that enhanced EfS included EfS staff champions who had access to EfS networks, leadership support, and active school community involvement in all EfS processes. However, after 3 years of being an AuSSI school, the culmination of reduced leadership support for EfS, lack of staff training, vague designation of staff with EfS responsibilities and inadequate community involvement, resulted in cessation of the EfS program. Teacher perceptions on whole systems thinking revealed alignment between Montessori philosophy, EfS and whole system thinking was more in theory than in practice. Through an in-depth longitudinal case study of a school this research highlighted the importance of whole school EfS professional learning, embedding EfS and whole systems thinking across the curriculum at all year levels, whole school support, and the usefulness of a sustainability continuum that recognises the complex, dynamic interplay of issues involved in a school's EfS journey. It is strongly recommended that improvements to pre-service teacher education in EfS are implemented, and a review of the AuSSI toolkit is conducted to refine EfS evaluation processes and to target the specific EfS needs of teachers at different stages of schooling, as well as to enhance understanding and implementation of the whole systems thinking approach. Finally, EfS professional learning for all school staff in all schools is warranted to enhance depth of EfS engagement.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1017/aee.2013.8
ISSN: 0814-0626, 2049-775X
Article
Rethinking the Uses of Concrete Materials in Learning: Perspectives from Development and Education
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Child Development Perspectives, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: 2009
Pages: 137-139
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Abstract/Notes: The idea that concrete materials benefit children’s learning has a long history in developmental psychology and education, dating back to M. Montessori (1917), J. Piaget (1970), and J. S. Bruner (1966). Too often, however, scholars use these traditional views to give concrete materials a blanket endorsement. The articles in this issue go beyond traditional views and advance our understanding of the conditions under which students do and do not benefit from using concrete materials. They suggest that some processes involved in using concrete objects are not restricted to children of a certain age but rather apply across ages. They also highlight the need for systematic investigations into the type and amount of direction students need when working with concrete materials in the classroom.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00093.x
ISSN: 1750-8606
Article
The Differences Between Montessori Method and Traditional Teaching in Developing Primary School Pupils' Critical Thinking
Available from: Miasto Przyszłości
Publication: Miasto Przyszłości, vol. 24
Date: 2022
Pages: 578-579
Comparative education, Critical thinking in children, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: Montessori learning classrooms, defined as an arranged environment, provide learners to opt for their work freely and construct their own learning. Thus the roles of the teacher differ from the roles of the teachers in traditional schools whereas the child is in the center in Montessori method based schools. The objectives of the communication and collaboration between the child and the teacher is determined correspondingly. This study aims at determining the differences between Montessori Method and Traditional Teaching in communication and collaboration with the child at primary schools.
Language: English
ISSN: 2544-980X
Article
Rethinking Education: Montessori’s Approach
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 27, no. 6
Date: 2018
Pages: 395-400
Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: More than 100 years ago, an Italian physician began designing an education system with the expressed purpose of helping children thrive to their full potential, rather than pass tests. Psychology research is strongly supportive of the system’s underlying theoretical principles, and accumulating studies show that when the system is well implemented, children’s outcomes even on tests are superior to those obtained with business-as-usual school programs. Researchers are now examining whether these good outcomes are in part due to the educational method causing epigenetic effects (i.e., changes in gene expression).
Language: English
ISSN: 0963-7214, 1467-8721
Article
Book Reviews: Thinking is Child's Play [by] Evelyn Sharp; Schools Without Failure [by] Dr. William Glasser
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1965-1973), vol. 6, no. 1
Date: Summer 1970
Pages: 38-40
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
Article
What Terms Should We Use? The Teacher's Responsibility to Acknowledge Changes in Scientific Thinking
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 15, no. 3
Date: Spring 2003
Pages: 24-25
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246