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Maria Montessori’s Philosophy of Education: An Early Beginning of Embodied Education
Available from: University Colleges Knowledge database (Denmark)
18th International Network of Philosophers of Education Conference: Pedagogical Forms in Times of Pandemic (Copenhagen, Denmark, 17-20 August 2022)
Comparative education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abstract/Notes: For a century Montessori’s philosophy of education has been understood in separation from Dewey’s philosophy of education. According to Thayer-Bacon [1], a plausible explanation is that Kilpatrick, Dewey’s influential student, rejected Montessori’s system of education [2]. His main objection was that her educational system was founded on an outdated psychology. In contrast, this paper suggests, Montessori’s educational systems is founded on a psychology which, like Dewey’s, was markedly ahead of her time by putting purely embodied interactions with the environment as the foundation of human understanding. By comparing Montessori’s psychology [3; 4] to Dewey’s [5; 6] this paper shows their compatibility. The developed pragmatism of Sellars [5;6] and the interactivism of Bickhard [7] further enables us to explain how the prelinguistic human-environment interactions (or transactions), central to Dewey and Montessori, are pure processes [8]. The pure process ontology enables us to see how more complex processes emerge from simpler ones and how learning in the mere causal domain of bodily human-environment interactions can grow into the linguistic and conceptual domain of education. The ambition is to show that a flourishing interaction between Montessori and pragmatism is possible and preferable if we are to understand the proper role of the body in education. [1] Thayer-Bacon, Barbara (2012). Maria Montessori, John Dewey, and William H. Kilpatrick. Education and Culture, 28, 1, 3-20. [2] Kilpatrick, W. H. (1914). The Montessori system examined. Cambridge, Mass.; The Riverside Press [3] Montessori, M. (1912). The Montessori method. NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company [4] Montessori. M. (1949). The absorbent mind. Adyar: The Theosophical Publishing House [5] Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education. NY: The Macmillan Company [6] Dewey, J. (1925) Experience and nature. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company [7] Sellars, W. (1960). Being and Being Known. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 34, 28-49. [8] Sellars, W. (1981). Foundations for a metaphysics of pure process: The Carus lectures of Wilfrid Sellars. The Monist 64 (1):3-90. [9] Bickhard, M. H. (2009). The interactivist model. Synthese, 166, 3, 547-591. [10] Seibt, Johanna (2016). How to Naturalize Intentionality and Sensory Consciousness within a Process Monism with Gradient Normativity—A Reading of Sellars. In James O'Shea (ed.), Sellars and His Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 186-222.
Language: English
Published: Copenhagen, Denmark: International Network of Philosophers of Education, 2022
Article
Suzuki Philosophy and the Development of the Child
Publication: The Alcove: Newsletter of the Australian AMI Alumni Association, no. 2
Date: Dec 1998
Pages: 2
Child development, Shinichi Suzuki - Philosophy, Suzuki Method
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Language: English
Book Section
The Education of the Individual [An address given at the International School of Philosophy in Amersfoort on 28 December 1937]
Book Title: Education and Peace
Pages: 96-106
Europe, Holland, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (Netherlands), Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Netherlands, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: An address given at the International School of Philosophy in Amersfoort on 28 December 1937.
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2018
ISBN: 978-90-79506-21-7
Series: Montessori Series , 10
Article
Teaching Nature: From Philosophy to Practice
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 28, no. 1
Date: 2003
Pages: 207-218
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Examines educational resistance to nature study, focusing on the subtle resistance evident in the vicarious approach that limits nature study to books and videos, while ignoring the sensory richness and kinship developed through direct connection with the natural world. Suggests that environmental science, citizen education, inquiry learning, personal growth orientations, and social action can contribute to a more holistic and environmentally sensitive Montessori plan of study. (Author/KB)
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Book Section
Montessori Philosophy in Early Childhood Education
Book Title: Early Childhood Education in Nigeria: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Early Childhood Education, Zaria, 4-8 July, 1983
Pages: 31-52
Africa, Early childhood education, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
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Abstract/Notes: In this paper a brief biographical introduction to Dr. Maria Montessori provides insight into the origin of her philosophy of early childhood education. Key concepts underlying the Montessori approach to education are then developed with special emphasis on their interrelationship. More details are included in the group discussion report which is included at the end of the section.
Language: English
Published: Zaria, Nigeria: Institute of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, 1983
Article
The Montessori Philosophy
Publication: Theosophy in New Zealand, vol. 20, no. 2
Date: May 1959
Pages: 31
Asia, Australasia, Australia and New Zealand, India, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., New Zealand, Oceania, South Asia, Theosophical Society, Theosophy
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Abstract/Notes: Includes an analysis or interpretation of the Montessori philosophy with particular focus and explanation of how it aligns with the core tenets of Theosophy.
Language: English
ISSN: 0049-3708
Video Recording
Following Your Child: A Montessori Philosophy of Parenting
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Abstract/Notes: Preschool Montessori culture in the home.
Runtime: 25 minutes
Language: English
Published: Yellow Springs, Ohio, 2005
Book
The Philosophy of Maria Montessori: What it Means to be Human
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Abstract/Notes: Dr. Maria Montessori opened the first Casa dei Bambini (Childrens House) on 6 January 1907 in San Lorenzo, Rome. Through her observations and work with these children she discovered their astonishing, almost effortless ability to learn. Thus began a century of great work uncovering the true nature of childhood. Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation. Dr. Montessori from the forward to The Discovery of the Child, Poona 1948.
Language: English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4415-0444-9
Book Section
First Lecture [An address given at the International School of Philosophy in Amersfoort on 28 December 1937]
Book Title: Education and Peace
Pages: 81-87
Europe, Holland, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (Netherlands), Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Netherlands, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: An address given at the International School of Philosophy in Amersfoort on 28 December 1937.
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2018
ISBN: 978-90-79506-21-7
Series: Montessori Series , 10
Book Section
Supernature and the Single Nation [An address given at the International School of Philosophy in Amersfoort on 28 December 1937]
Book Title: Education and Peace
Pages: 88-95
Europe, Holland, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (Netherlands), Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Netherlands, Peace, Peace education, Trainings, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: An address given at the International School of Philosophy in Amersfoort on 28 December 1937.
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2018
ISBN: 978-90-79506-21-7
Series: Montessori Series , 10