Abstract/Notes: The goal of this research was to explore teachers' and university students' perceptions of material, cognitive and affective-motivational characteristics as well as the acceptance of didactic materials used in Montessori schools. It has been found that both teachers and university students are not familiar enough with alternative pedagogical concepts and believe there's an insufficient number of them in Croatia. While teachers prefer Cosmic Education and Mathematics materials, university students like Language Education materials more, although teachers show more willingness to use Language Education materials in teaching whereas university students use Cosmic Education materials more readily. Both university students and teachers find it most demanding to make Cosmic Education materials, but they also believe such materials to be most concrete. The results have shown that both university students and teachers are more willing to use in teaching such positively evaluated examples of Montessori didactic materials, which have been explored in this research, when they believe them to be valuable, desirable, necessary and useful.

Language: Croatian, English

DOI: 10.15516/cje.v17i3.1054

ISSN: 1848-5189, 1848-5197

Abstract/Notes: A presente pesquisa bibliográfica busca apresentar uma das mais importantes vertentes da Pedagogia de Maria Montessori, pedagoga que revolucionou a forma de como a criança é compreendida e respeitada, a individualidade. Seu método tem como base a própria criança e sua autonomia. Este tema vem ganhando notoriedade devido ao crescimento de debates e interesse dos pais e professores para com tal pedagogia, uma vez que os resultados obtidos são satisfatórios e deixam as crianças mais empolgadas com o próprio desenvolvimento e o gosto pelo aprender. Porém, a falta de escolas que utilizem da metodologia Montessori dificulta a sua divulgação e deixa os pais e professores sem informação o bastante para aplicá-lo de maneira fiel à suas vertentes. Uma vez que os objetivos estudados por Montessori sejam compreendidos, o professor tem mais clareza ao visualizar em sua sala de aula os alunos como indivíduos capacitados, interessados e autônomos, começando assim a por em prática o que Maria Montessori sempre acreditou. No entanto, é necessário que o professor interessado na metodologia tenha passado por um curso aprovado pela OMB (Organização Montessori no Brasil) para que esteja capacitado a utiliza-la em seu espaço escolar. Porém, nada o impede de que ele coloque em prática nas escolas regulares os valores e ações de tal pedagogia, respeitando a criança e colocando sua autonomia e seu ensino como prioridades. [The present bibliographic research seeks to present one of the most important aspects of the pedagogy of Maria Montessori, an educator who revolutionized the way in which the child's individuality is understood and respected. Her method is based on the child himself and his autonomy. This theme has been gaining notoriety due to the growing debates and interest of parents and teachers towards such pedagogy, since the results obtained are satisfactory and make children more excited about their own development and the taste for learning. However, the lack of schools using the Montessori methodology hinders its dissemination and leaves parents and teachers without enough information to apply it faithfully to its aspects. Once the objectives studied by Montessori are understood, the teacher has more clarity when viewing students in his classroom as trained, interested and autonomous individuals, thus beginning to put into practice what Maria Montessori has always believed. However, it is necessary that the teacher interested in the methodology has passed a course approved by OMB (Montessori Organization in Brazil) so that he is able to use it in his school space. However, nothing prevents him from putting the values ​​and actions of such pedagogy into practice in regular schools, respecting the child and placing his autonomy and teaching as priorities.]

Language: Portuguese

DOI: 10.34117/bjdv6n6-107

ISSN: 2525-8761

Language: German

DOI: 10.7788/bue-1952-jg33

ISSN: 0006-2456, 2194-3834

Language: English

ISSN: 2281-8375

Abstract/Notes: The article intends to document the presence of the nuns at the courses held by the Prof. Montessori in the years 1910-1911 at the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary in their home in Via Giusti in Rome. It is certain that, with the support of the Vicariate of Rome, numerous Franciscan Missionary of Mary, some Guanellian Sisters and a group of Sisters of Charity of St. Jeanne Antide Thouret participated in the courses. The article also illustrates the difficulty that the Montessori method elicited then in the Catholic sphere and the reaction...

Language: Italian

ISSN: 1723-9672, 2612-6559

Abstract/Notes: Child-centered pedagogy is at the ideological core of progressive education. The simple idea that the child rather than the teacher or textbook should be the major focus of the classroom is, perhaps, the single most enduring educational idea of the era. In this historical study, the author argues that child-centered education emerged directly from the theory of recapitulation, the idea that the development of the White child retraced the history of the human race. The theory of recapitulation was pervasive in the fields of anthropology, sociology, and psychology at the turn of the 20th century, and so early progressive educators uncritically adopted the basic tenets of the theory, which served as a major rationale for child-centered instruction. The theory was inherently ethnocentric and racist because it pointed to the West as the developmental endpoint of history, thereby depicting people of color as ontologically less developed than their White counterparts.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3102/0002831214561629

ISSN: 0002-8312, 1935-1011

Language: Hungarian

ISSN: 1583-6436

Abstract/Notes: Within an inherently dynamic environment, unexpected outcomes are part of daily life. Performance monitoring allows us to detect these events and adjust behavior accordingly. The necessity of such an optimal functioning has made error-monitoring a prominent topic of research over the last decades. Event-related potentials (ERPs) have differentiated between two brain components involved in error-monitoring: the error-related negativity (ERN) and error-related positivity (Pe) that are thought to reflect detection vs. emotional/motivational processing of errors, respectively. Both ERN and Pe depend on the protracted maturation of the frontal cortices and anterior cingulate through adolescence. To our knowledge, the impact of schooling pedagogy on error-monitoring and its brain mechanisms remains unknown and was the focus of the present study. Swiss schoolchildren completed a continuous recognition task while 64-channel EEG was recorded and later analyzed within an electrical neuroimaging framework. They were enrolled either in a Montessori curriculum (N=13), consisting of self-directed learning through trial-and-error activities with sensory materials, or a traditional curriculum (N=14), focused on externally driven activities mainly based on reward feedback. The two groups were controlled for age, gender, socio-economic status, parental educational style, and scores of fluid intelligence. The ERN was significantly enhanced in Montessori schoolchildren (driven by a larger response to errors), with source estimation differences localized to the cuneus and precuneus. In contrast, the Pe was enhanced in traditional schoolchildren (driven by a larger response to correct trials), with source estimation differences localized to the ventral anterior cingulate. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis demonstrated that the ERN and Pe could reliably classify if a child was following a Montessori or traditional curriculum. Brain activity subserving error-monitoring is modulated differently according to school pedagogy.

Language: English

DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7nbqz

Abstract/Notes: Un nombre important d’enseignant(e)s de l’école maternelle remettent actuellement en cause ses modalités pédagogiques habituelles en instillant dans leur pratique des éléments issus de la pédagogie Montessori. Qu’il s’agisse de l’organisation spatiale, du matériel, des usages du temps, ou du rôle de l’adulte, ces pratiques « d’inspiration montessorienne » s’avèrent très hétérogènes et plus ou moins orthodoxe. Cet article cherche à les catégoriser en distinguant des pratiques relevant d’un faible ou d’un fort engagement montessorien. Dans les deux cas, il s’agit aussi de mettre au jour d’inexorables limites à l’importation de la pédagogie Montessori au sein de l’école maternelle publique, du fait des programmes et du cadrage institutionnel. L’ensemble du raisonnement est l’occasion d’une réflexion sur l es emprunts pédagogiques partiels, lorsque des éléments d’une pédagogie sont repris sans forcément l’ensemble de ses principes fondateurs. [A significant number of french preschool teachers are currently changing their usual pedagogical methods by instilling elements from Montessori pedagogy into their practice. Concerning spatial organization, pedagogical material, uses of time, or adult’s role, these practices are very heterogeneous and more or less orthodox. This article seeks to categorize them by distinguishing practices within a weak or strong Montessori commitment. In both cases, it’s also a question of inexorable limits to the importation of Montessori pedagogy into public french preschool, due to programmes and institutional framework. This whole reasoning is an opportunity for reflection on partial pedagogical loans, when elements of a pedagogy are taken up without necessarily all its founding principles.]

Language: French

DOI: 10.3917/spec.012.0031

ISSN: 2256-7186, 2426-6272

Language: English

ISSN: 1071-6246