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Article
Montessori Transformation at Computer Associates
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 27, no. 1
Date: 2002
Pages: 221-226
Classroom environments, Computer Associates International, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Infants, Montessori method of education, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, Prepared environment, Toddlers
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Abstract/Notes: Describes the growth of the all-day Montessori program for children ages 6 weeks to 6 years at Computer Associates' corporate headquarters and multiple sites worldwide. Focuses on placement of AMI Montessori-trained teachers, refurbishing of the child development centers to fit Montessori specifications, and the Nido - the children's community - and the primary classes. Identifies future challenges for the program.
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
Battling for the Soul of Education: Moving Beyond School Reform to Educational Transformation
Available from: ERIC
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 40, no. 3
Date: 2015
Pages: 93-105
Educational change, North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: John Abbott is seeking a revolution in education that will put learning back into the hands of the learner. He writes of the learner needing to be free-ranging and weaned from instruction. He is the director of a new wave of thinkers who are members of The 21st Century Learning Initiative, which places emphasis on the skills of critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, independence, collaboration, teamwork, leadership, multicultural understanding, communication, IT skills, and career and learning independence. This movement gives insight into Montessori adolescent education as it also is clearly reacting to the content-based learning that Montessori does not view as its focus or priority.
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.)
Transforming the Transformation: A Post-Intentional Phenomenological Exploration of Montessori Teachers Engaging in Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist Teacher Self-Reflection
Available from: University of Minnesota Libraries
Homophobia, Montessori method of education - Teachers, Racism, Teachers, Transphobia
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Abstract/Notes: Montessori teachers often enter the teaching field with a strong sense of a Montessori social identity developed through their transformational teacher education experience (AMI, 2018a; Malm, 2004), uniting them around a shared knowledge and belief system (Fairclough, 1992, 2003). While a social identity can connect individuals and provide security and purpose, it can also limit beliefs and behaviors by producing a prescribed way of being (Foucault, 2010). Research (e.g., Sumison, 2002) has shown that when teachers are confronted with instances that challenge their teacher identity and social practice (Fairclough, 1992), they may experience dilemmas and uncertainty (Cuban, 1992; Lampert, 1985) that call their self and social identification as a teacher into question. This post-intentional phenomenological study is an attempt to better understand what is produced and provoked (Vagle, 2018) when Montessori teachers engage in anti-bias and anti-racist (ABAR) teacher self-reflection, a critical first step to implementing antiracist teaching practices in an early childhood classroom (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010). Specifically, I explored what is produced and provoked in the Montessori self and social identity as teachers consider ways of being a teacher that possibly differ with the Montessori teacher way of being. Six Montessori early childhood teachers participated in three workshops on ABAR self-reflection which I developed and facilitated over the course of three and a half months. Participant experiences, including my own, and additional phenomenological material (e.g., Montessori's writing, current initiatives in the Montessori social world) offered important insight into the life and evolution of the phenomenon. To guide analysis, I used Jackson and Mazzei's (2012) thinking with theory and Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) notion of the rhizome to conceptualize the life and growth of the phenomenon. Findings revealed elements of the Montessori social identity that provide meaning and purpose for teachers working towards dismantling oppression as well as limitations in the form of a regime of truth (Foucault, 1977/2010) that can challenge the development of a dialogic identity. Implications suggest recommendations for Montessori teacher education programs including strategies of incorporating ABAR reflective practices into Montessori teacher development, reevaluating the words and position of an adored leader for relevance as society evolves, and encouraging social activism by disrupting the notion of objectivity and neutrality in teaching.
Language: English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2018
Article
The Change Is in Me. The Transformation of Adults to the Role of the Montessori Guide. Qualitative - Biographical Research Study / Zmiana jest we mnie. Transformacja dorosłych do roli przewodnika Montessori. Raport z badania jakościowo – biograficznego
Available from: CZASOPISMA - Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Techniczno-Ekonomiczna
Publication: Edukacja Elementarna w Teorii i Praktyce / Elementary Education in Theory and Practice, vol. 18, no. 1 (no. 68)
Date: 2023
Pages: 65-78
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Abstract/Notes: Artykuł stanowi sprawozdanie z badania jakościowo – biograficznego zrealizowanego wśród dwóch grup uczestników biorących udział w kursach Montessori. Podstawowym celem badania była analiza znaczeń nadawanych zmianie. Pytanie badawcze sformułowano następująco: Jak uczestnicy kursu Montessori (6-12) tematyzują swój proces transformacji? Artykuł podejmuje kwestię zmiany edukacyjnej w kontekście wiedzy milczącej oraz teorii osobistych a następnie opisuje procedurę gromadzenia i analizy danych z dwudziestu pięciu pogłębionych, jakościowych wywiadów indywidualnych, które następnie poddano analizie zgodnie z opisanymi przez Kvale siedmioma krokami. W rezultacie analiz udało się zidentyfikować i opisać dwie główne kategorie: radykalną transformację oraz korektę biograficzną. W końcowej części artykułu autor, w kontekście zebranego materiału zwraca uwagę na ograniczone możliwości narzucania zmiany w edukacji i – podążając za głosami uczestników badania rekomenduje pożądane warunki do zaistnienia potencjalnych zmian: tworzenie nauczycielom warunków wolności do podejmowania decyzji i tworzenia autorskich rozwiązań dydaktycznych, demokratyzacja sfery związanej z edukacją oraz wspieranie poczucia godności wśród nauczycieli.
Language: English
DOI: 10.35765/eetp.2023.1868.05
ISSN: 2353-7787
Book
Shining Through: A Teacher's Book on Transformation
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Language: English
Published: Buena Vista, Colorado: Shining Mountains Center for Cooperation, 1993
Book
The Family Star Story: The Community Led Transformation of an Abandoned Building into a Montessori Infant-Toddler-Parent Education Center in Northeast Denver
Americas, Family Star Montessori School (Denver, Colorado), Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: In the late 1980s, a group of parents, teachers, and community members were concerned about an abandoned nineplex unit that sat directly across the street from an elementary school in Northeast Denver, Colorado. The school was Mitchell Elementary. Only a few years before, it had been in noncompliance with the federal court order to desegregate the Denver Public Schools. Dr. Martha M. Urioste had been assigned as the principal to bring the school out of noncompliance -- she did this in nine years by adopting a Montessori curriculum and attracting students from all over the city -- and Mitchell Montessori soon became a beacon of hope and opportunity in a neighborhood that had often felt forsaken. Next to the shining star of Mitchell Montessori, the neglected building stood in stark contrast and seemed to attract illicit activity. Many people worried for the safety of the children. Rather than wait for someone else to do something, these concerned citizens decided to adopt the building themselves and transform it into an infant-toddler-parent Montessori education center. They named the center Family Star for the child -- the nucleus of the family. This is their story.
Language: English
Published: Edgewater, Colorado: Great Work Publishing, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-692-61020-6
Book
Montessori: The 90 Year Old Innovation: A Complete Model for the Transformation of the Educational Experience
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Language: English
Published: Glenn Dale, Maryland: Oekos, [1997?]
Article
A Transformation in Puerto Rico
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 26, no. 2
Date: Winter 2014
Pages: 7, 21
Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, Public Montessori, Puerto Rico
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Stacey Cook and Transformation: First Year Reflections in an OEkos Schools Program [Lakeside Elementary School, Pine Bluff, Arkansas]
Publication: OEkosphere [Œkosphere], vol. 1, no. 3
Date: Apr/May 1995
Pages: 1
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Language: English
Article
Transformational Leadership Focusing on Site-Based Management
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 17, no. 3
Date: 1993
Pages: 15–16
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Language: English