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Dr. Montessori: A Child's [...] Reproduction of a Talk Given to the Children of Besant Montessori School
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 13
Date: 1969-1970
Pages: 12
Asia, India, South Asia, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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Children's Well-Being and Teachers' Benevolence as the Road to Higher Performance?: Cognitive Neuroscience and Montessori in Preschools
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Book Title: Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe: The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
Pages: 63-78
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Abstract/Notes: There is now a broad international consensus that investing in early childhood education and care represents the highest “return on investment” in terms of economic and social development. The pursuit of the dual objective of efficiency and equity has resulted in a reorientation of preschool curricula towards preparation for compulsory schooling, emphasizing the acquisition of the “fundamentals” (reading, writing, and arithmetic) most useful for future academic success. The chapter offers first a comparative analysis of how this “schooling process” unfolded in French and Belgian nursery schools and in the Danish kindergarten. It attests to the persistence of specific cultural and political traditions relating to both the respective roles of the state and families in early childhood education, as well as of conceptions of childhood and relations between adults and children. Second, based on field research conducted in French-speaking Belgium, it discusses the idea that the search for children's well-being and performance at the same time creates tensions in the exercise of the teaching profession. It then shows that it is possible to understand the success of the discourse of cognitive neuroscience and so-called alternative pedagogical methods, including Montessori, because these discourses seem to propose a way to overcome these tensions.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Routledge, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-00-337720-7