Language: English

ISSN: 0013-5984

Abstract/Notes: Examines the relationship between two preschool program directors' and teachers' beliefs, instructional decisions, and preschool children's conceptions of reading and writing. Results show that preschool children's conceptions of reading and writing reflected the practices of the two programs. (Author/BB) Directors of two preschool programs were interviewed regarding their orientations toward reading and writing instruction. Ten children from each program were interviewed regarding their conceptions of reading and writing. One school was found to have a “mastery of specific skills/text-based” orientation, and the other was found to have a “holistic/reader-based” orientation. A relationship was found between preschool program's orientations toward reading and writing instruction and children's ideas about reading and writing. The relationships between preschool practices and children's conceptions are examined. Implications for the influence of preschool teacher's beliefs and instructional decisions on children's conceptions of reading and writing are discussed.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2006(89)90077-X

ISSN: 0885-2006, 1873-7706

Abstract/Notes: This essay is constitutes a reading of Maria Montessi's 1909 text Il metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini, the founding text of the Italian and international Montessori movement. I claim that Montessori's writing method is central to this pedagogical enterprise, since it highlights two fundamental aspects of the Montessorian method. First, it is founded in a notion of the human subject understood as a constitutive absence, as is made clear, I argue, through a pedagogical relationship that is crucially anti-mimetic and based on the “imitation of nothingness.” Second, I relate this anti-mimesis to Montessori's desire to found a writing method in what she calls the “materialization of the abstract” in and through the disciplining of the body's senses. Constitutive absence and graphic presence, I argue, are closely dependent in her method, and as such place Montessori within a wider European and American debate about the body as the automatic producer of graphic signs. In a final section, I interrogate the uses and abuses of the Montessorian method by the fascist regime and the latter's own attempt at devising a pedagogy for the new fascist subject.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/001458580604000104

ISSN: 0014-5858

Language: English

ISSN: 0012-2807

Language: English

ISSN: 0012-2807

Abstract/Notes: This study was an attempt to find out the impact of Montessori teaching method on EFL learners’ writing achievement. To fulfill the purpose of the study, out of 150 students, 95 male and female students were selected randomly to participate in this study. All of them were given a pretest to find out their level of proficiency. They had no background knowledge of English and they had not studied English before. They were also divided randomly into two groups namely experimental and control. The experimental group consisted of 23 male and 27 female learners while the control group consisted of 21 male and 24 female learners. Experimental group members were instructed based on Montessori teaching method and their instruction was based on different Montessori materials. The control group members had a routine teaching process. Each group was a mixture of both male and female learners with the age range of 5-6. After 12 sessions, writing posttest was given to both groups to evaluate whether there is any significant difference between these two groups or not. The obtained data were analyzed both descriptively and inferentially. The data were analyzed by statistical tests such as one-way ANCOVA and one-sample t-test. The statistical analyses revealed that there was significant statistical differences between two groups mean scores on the writing posttest. Therefore, it can be argued that Montessori teaching method had significant impact on learners’ writing skill.

Language: English

DOI: 10.46809/jpse.v2i1.17

ISSN: 2634-4629

Abstract/Notes: Erik H. Erikson wrote three articles when he was in his late-twenties and an up-and-coming member of the psychoanalytic community in Vienna. At the time he wrote these articles, he was in a training psychoanalysis with Anna Freud, teaching at the Heitzing School in Vienna, and learning the Montessori method of teaching. These articles focus on the loss of primary narcissism and the development of the superego (or punitive conscience) in early childhood, especially through the child’s conflict with maternal authority. They support the idea that melancholia, with its internalized rage against the mother, is the inevitable outcome of the loss of primary narcissism. I note, however, that the third of these articles makes a case for the restorative role of humor, especially when Freud’s view that humor is a function of the superego is taken into account.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/s10943-008-9178-x

ISSN: 1573-6571

Abstract/Notes: This study is a qualitative research based on literature review, which aims at evaluating the reading and writing education within the framework of the Montessorian system. In this research study, the process that children encounter while they learn to read and write in Montessorian schools is examined in detail in a progressive manner. Materials used in the educational process constitute a significant part of this study. In other words, this study mainly includes the most important elements of the Montessorian Method. It also intends to outline the Montessorian Method with its main features. / Montessori sistemi çerçevesinde okuma ve yazma eğitiminin değerlendirilmesi amacıyla yapılan bu çalışma, literatür taramaya dayalı nitel bir araştırmadır. Bu araştırmada Montessori okullarında eğitim gören çocukların okuma ve yazmayı öğrenirken karşılaştıkları süreçler ayrıntılı olarak aşamalı bir biçimde ele alınmıştır. Çalışmanın önemli bir bölümünü eğitim sürecinde kullanılan materyaller oluşturmaktadır. Başka bir deyişle çalışmada ağırlıklı olarak Montessori Metodu’nun en önemli unsurlarına yer verilmiştir. Aynı zamanda bu çalışmayla Montessori Metodu’nun ana hatlarıyla tanıtılması da amaçlanmıştır.

Language: Turkish

ISSN: 2148-9424

Abstract/Notes: The microstudy presented is a psycho-pedagogical experiment, which consists in applying the Montessori-specific experimental factor to a group of pre-school children in the traditional system. The investigative approach is based on a comparative study, the results obtained being interpreted from both a quantitative and a qualitative point of view. In this paper we started from the premise that Montessori strategies foster the acquisition of reading and writing skills at pre-school age. The general objectives of the investigation are the introduction into the traditional experimental system of alternative methods of acquiring reading-writing skills specific to the Montessori system and the study of the Montessori system for the acquisition of reading and writing skills in methodical terms and from the point of view of the results obtained by applying these strategies.

Language: English

ISSN: 1841-0456, 2247-8671

Abstract/Notes: Dr. Maria Montessori was a perceptive observer of the learning processes of children, and nowhere is this revealed more clearly than in her approach to language. She viewed reading as the ultimate abstraction of language rather than a specific skill to be taught. Decoding is the skill to be taught. The concept of indirect and direct preparation for learning is of major importance in the rich heritage she gave us. She saw the existence of an epigenesis of intellectual functioning, which implies that the experiential roots of a given schema, or learned behavior, will lie in antecedent activities that may be quite different in structure from the schema to be learned. She used this principle effectively. This article discusses how Montessori's method and materials address the indirect and direct preparation for learning written language.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/s11881-997-0028-4

ISSN: 0736-9387, 1934-7243