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Montessori Primary School in Delft, Holland
Available from: Harvard Education Publishing Group
Publication: Harvard Educational Review, vol. 39, no. 4
Date: Winter 1969
Pages: 58-67
Architecture, Delft Montessori School (Netherlands), Europe, Holland, Montessori schools, Netherlands, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: This school has been made to answer the specific demands of a non-traditional teaching system, as far as was possible within the framework of the rather strict building regulations for primary schools in this country. Each classroom is considered and equipped as a complete unit, a house in itself. The houses open onto a central space, "the street"; here all activities take place between students of many ages, interrupting the unity of the classroom-groups, which are merely children of similar age. The working method in a Montessori school is not dominated as in traditional teaching methods by a fixed and static relationship between teacher and children, but exploits the infinite variety of relationships of child to child, child to work and child to teacher. Everybody makes his own choice of what kind of work he is going to do. As a result, the system is characterised by many different activities occurring simultaneously.
Language: English
DOI: 10.17763/haer.39.4.a0m374522202766g
ISSN: 0017-8055, 1943-5045
Article
From Holland to Hamburg: The Experimental and Community Schools of Hamburg Seen Through the Eyes of Dutch Observers (1919–1933)
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, vol. 50, no. 5
Date: 2014
Pages: 615-630
Europe, Germany, Holland, Netherlands, New Education Fellowship, New Education Movement, Theosophical Society, Theosophy, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: In the period 1919–1933 the experimental and community schools in Hamburg tried to put into practice a new model of schooling without a set curriculum that was based on providing a considerable amount of freedom for pupils and teachers. These experiences were introduced in the Netherlands by way of magazines published by the New Education Fellowship (NEF) or Dutch journals edited by educationalists and university professors. The Hamburg schools were also visited by Christian Anarchist teachers who were connected with new schools in the Netherlands and who already had experimented with new ways of life in small communities. In this article we describe their experiences in Hamburg. Their observation reports would not trigger a growing interest in a social community type of schooling; in general Dutch teachers, even the socialist ones, did not change their preference for the traditional classroom system of education. More individualistic methods from Montessori and Parkhurst (Dalton Plan), supported by university professors and inspectors of education, were considered to have more potential for changing the classroom system from within.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2014.927513
ISSN: 0030-9230, 1477-674X
Article
Die Montessori-Bewegung in Holland
Publication: Vierteljahrsschrift für Wissenschaftliche Pädagogik, vol. 6
Date: 1930
Pages: 581-588
Europe, Holland, Montessori movement, Western Europe
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Language: German
ISSN: 0507-7230
Book Section
Maria Montessori e l'Olanda [Maria Montessori and Holland]
Book Title: Maria Montessori cittadina del mondo [Maria Montessori, citizen of the world]
Pages: 262-265
Europe, Holland, Netherlands, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Dalla rivista "Vita dell'Infanzia", Roma, anno I, n. 5-6-7, maggio-giugno-luglio, 1952. [From the magazine "Vita dell'Infanzia", Rome, anno I, n. 5-6-7, May-June-July, 1952.]
Language: Italian
Published: Roma, Italy: Comitato italiano dell'OMEP, 1967