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Article
Peer Interactions During Storybook Reading on Children's Knowledge Construction: An Experimental Study on K2 and K3 Children
Available from: Frontiers in Education
Publication: Frontiers in Education - Educational Psychology, vol. 9
Date: 2024
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Abstract/Notes: This study explored the effects of peer interactions on kindergarten children’s construction of conservation and conflict resolution knowledge during storybook reading. Previous studies have identified that peer interactions can support the meaning-making processes of children in social relationships and problem-solving, but little is known about whether the interaction with mixed-age or more competent peers is more important in supporting knowledge construction. Sixty-four younger children in K2 and older children in K3 with similar socioeconomic backgrounds were recruited from a Montessori kindergarten in Kunming, China. An experimental design was applied to explore age group and conserver dominance effects on conservation and conflict resolution. Children were assigned randomly to eight groups in three 30-to-40-minute intervention sessions. Each session had a different theme for the children to learn about conservation and conflict resolution concepts and a hands-on activity to practice and discuss. ANOVAs were performed to test group effects, while multiple regression analyses were conducted to explore individual variations in age and pre-test scores in predicting post-test scores. Conservation knowledge was significantly better among children who differed in age groups in the post-test, but differences were not found in conflict resolution knowledge. Groups balanced with equal conservers and non-conservers improved the best, suggesting that peer social interactions can facilitate conservation and conflict resolution construction. These results provide new insights for early childhood educators to support peer interactions and children’s development. Implications, limitations, and future research are discussed.
Language: English
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1253782
ISSN: 2504-284X
Article
The 'Cosmic' Task of the Youngest Children – Direct, Anticipate or Respect? Experiences Working with Small Children
Available from: Stockholm University Press
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research and Education, vol. 2, no. 1
Date: 2019
Pages: 1–12
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Abstract/Notes: The article derived from Grazia Honegger Fresco’s years in close cooperation with Maria Montessori and Adele Costa Gnocchi. The author illustrates how small children from the moment they start using their hands and are standing unassisted on their own legs must act in their own way. The teacher must observe before acting and intervene as little as possible. Honegger Fresco follows the work of Montessori and Costa Gnocchi and she compares the findings with different fields of science, such as ethnology and neurology. As a result of her observations and experiences she points toward the relationship between a good childhood, and in the long term, human responsibility on Earth, using the concept “the Cosmic Task”. The method in this article is based on autoethnography, as the author shares her personal experience and reflections, both as a teacher and as an educator. The aim is to shed light on aspects regarding the needs of small children and to point at the essential role of adults, educators as well as parents. As Schiedi explains, autoethnography “extends its narrative horizon to a social, professional, organizational dimension of the self” (2016). During Honegger Fresco’s career, she was primarily inspired by Maria Montessori’s research about child development and children’s needs and rights, and she had continuously deepened her understanding by studying other researchers in this field. Thus, the article will share her conviction that by serving the creative spirit of the youngest children we will build a better future for our planet.
Language: English
DOI: 10.16993/jmre.10
ISSN: 2002-3375
Book
Talent for the future: social and personality development of gifted children: Proceedings of the Ninth world conference on gifted and talented children
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Language: English
Published: Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum & Co., 1992
ISBN: 90-232-2656-9
Article
Gardening with Children: Children Helping Nature
Publication: Tomorrow's Child, vol. 4, no. 3
Date: 1996
Pages: 23
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
A Developmental Approach to Interpersonal and Moral Awareness in Young Children: Some Theoretical and Educational Implications of Levels of Social Perspective Taking
Publication: American Montessori Society Bulletin, vol. 14, no. 2
Date: 1976
Pages: 1-15
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Language: English
ISSN: 0277-9064
Book Section
Nursery Education for Disadvantaged Children: An Historical Review
Book Title: Montessori in Perspective
Pages: 7-24
Americas, Early childhood care and education, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1966
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: National Association for the Education of Young Children , 406
Article
The First Montessori Child Nursery with Integrating Education in Munich: Experiences with Children
Publication: American Montessori Society Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 1/2
Date: 1980
Pages: 13-17
Europe, Germany, International Montessori Congress (18th, Munich, Germany, 4-8 July 1977), Montessori method of education, Western Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Paper presented at the 18th International Montessori Congress in Munich, Germany, July, 1977.
Language: English
ISSN: 0277-9064
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 9, Folder 47 - Manuscripts, ca. 1921-ca.1966 - "Some thoughts on the Religious Education of Young Children" 2 copies
Available from: Seattle University
Date: ca. 1921-ca. 1966
Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings
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Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections
Article
Montessori Education Affects the Lives of Children around the World [Victoria Montessori School, Entebbe, Uganda]
Available from: ProQuest
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 19, no. 3
Date: 2007
Pages: 8-9
Africa, East Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
A Nutrition Education Program for Children–A Curriculum Overview
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 26, no. 1
Date: 2002
Pages: 12–15
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Language: English