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Article
The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'the Children's Houses' [book review]
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: The Child (London), vol. 3, no. 4
Date: Jan 1913
Pages: 369-370
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Language: English
ISSN: 0855-0026
Article
Level 5 Children Create Web Pages
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 27, no. 2
Date: 2003
Pages: 7–13
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Language: English
Article
The Two Children
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1968, no. 3/4
Date: 1968
Pages: 6–18
Claude Albert Claremont - Writings
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
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Fort Play: Children Recreate Recess
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 19, no. 3
Date: 2007
Pages: 20-30
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Abstract/Notes: Recess beckons well before it actually arrives. Its allure can be heard in children's lunchtime conversations as they discuss imaginary roles, plans, alliances and teams, with an obvious appetite for play and its unbounded possibility. For some children, recess provides the most important reasons to come to school. In team sports, games of chase and tag, clique-bound conversations, solitary wandering and exploration, pretend and war play, recess offers reliable access to a scarce resource of immense value in the lives of children: spontaneous self-direction. Although watched over by the protective though generally unobtrusive gaze of supervising teachers, children at recess interact with their natural environment and with each other as they choose--a freedom denied them at other times while at school, and increasingly in their homes and neighborhood. As a lower elementary teacher at Lexington Montessori School (LMS) in Lexington, MA, from 1994 through 2002, the author witnessed for eight years the development of an extraordinary child-centered and spontaneous world of recess play (Powell, 2007). As children entered the elementary program at LMS, their peers initiated them into a culture of fort building. The forts, built entirely from sticks, leaves, and found objects from the surrounding woods, were the sites of considerable experimentation with different forms and rules of social organization and various styles of construction. They were also the vehicles for much of the conflict that occurred at the school. Children negotiated and clashed over ownership of land and resources and argued about the rules and roles of fort play and whether the rights of those already identified with a structure outweighed the rights of outsiders to be included. In doing so, they developed and influenced each other's reasoning about such moral principles as benevolence, justice, and reciprocity. Fort play was unpredictable, immediate, exciting, and fun, a brief window of opportunity,among hours of mostly adult-inspired activities and expectations, in which these children were free to manage their own lives and interact with each other on their own terms. As in the case of other schools where fort play has flourished, the LMS forts were in no way a programmed activity but rather a spontaneous one that simply wasn't stopped.
Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Science and Culture Around the Montessori's First "Children's Houses" in Rome (1907-1915)
Available from: Wiley Online Library
Publication: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 44, no. 3
Date: 2008
Pages: 238-257
Europe, Italy, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Between 1907 and 1908, Maria Montessori's (1870–1952) educational method was elaborated at the Children's Houses of the San Lorenzo district in Rome. This pioneering experience was the basis for the international fame that came to Montessori after the publication of her 1909 volume dedicated to her “Method.” The “Montessori Method” was considered by some to be scientific, liberal, and revolutionary. The present article focuses upon the complex contexts of the method's elaboration. It shows how the Children's Houses developed in relation to a particular scientific and cultural eclecticism. It describes the factors that both favored and hindered the method's elaboration, by paying attention to the complex network of social, institutional, and scientific relationships revolving around the figure of Maria Montessori. A number of “contradictory” dimensions of Montessori's experience are also examined with a view to helping to revise her myth and offering the image of a scholar who was a real early-twentieth-century prototype of a “multiple” behavioral scientist.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20313
ISSN: 1520-6696
Book Section
An Evaluation of the Montessori Method in Schools for Young Children
Available from: Books to Borrow @ Internet Archive
Book Title: Early Childhood Education Rediscovered: Readings
Pages: 92-96
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Language: English
Published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968
Book Section
Montessori for American Children
Book Title: Building the Foundations for Creative Learning
Pages: 1-9
American Montessori Society (AMS), New York
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Language: English
Published: New York: American Montessori Society, 1964
Archival Material Or Collection
Užsiėmimai Marijos Varnienės "Vaikų nameliuose" / Activities in Marija Varnienė's "Children's Home" - 1931
Available from: ePaveldas
Date: 1931
Classroom environments, Europe, Lithuania, Marija Varnienė - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, Montessori schools - Photographs, Northern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Fotografija. Užsiėmimai Marijos Varnienės „Vaikų nameliuose“. Nežinomas fotografas, Kaunas, 1931 m. Nespalvota, horizontalaus formato fotografija lygiais kraštais. Darbas su raidėmis. Mergaitės dėlioja raides. Tai Rašymo pratimai (Montessori metodo), kurių tikslas – išmokti teisingai laikyti rašymo priemonę, ruošti ranką rašymui, pažinti raštišką garsų simbolį, analizuoti garsus. [Photography. Classes in Marija Varnienė's Children's Home. Unknown photographer, Kaunas, 1931 Black-and-white, horizontal-format photography with smooth edges. Working with letters. Girls put on letters. These are Writing exercises (Montessori method), the purpose of which is to learn to hold a writing instrument correctly, to prepare a hand for writing, to know a written symbol of sounds, to analyze sounds.]
Language: Lithuanian
Archive: Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Article
Starting a New Year: Orientation for New Children
Publication: Point of Interest, vol. 6, no. 6
Date: Feb 1996
Pages: 1–4
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Language: English
Article
Children Need Protection from Harmful Solar Rays!
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 27, no. 2
Date: 2003
Pages: 4–5
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Language: English