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Article
On the Edge Between Digital and Physical: Materials to Enhance Creativity in Children. An Application to Atypical Development
Available from: Frontiers in Psychology
Publication: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11
Date: 2020
Pages: Article 755
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Abstract/Notes: The 4 P’s creativity model (person, process, press, and product) underlines how creativity is strongly connected with the materials employed to conceive and realize a creative outcome. As a multiform construct, it invites a wide variety of approaches to the study of it. One of the most promising ways to address this issue is to connect it with cognitive development and related educational pathways, as creativity can be enhanced and stimulated in every child, leading to an improvement both at personal and societal level. Even if creativity is recognized and highly valued, there is still a lack of methods which can stimulate creativity in an effective way. Useful hints may come from the outstanding contributions of Piaget and Montessori who underlined that interaction with the physical world is a fundamental building block for cognitive development. In this paper, starting from these fixed points, we describe some creativity enhancing methods for children which give importance to the edge between digital and physical materials. Digital materials open new ways to the use and integration of physical materials with hybrid platforms which can be used in educational contexts. Together with this perspective we provide a description of the application of these methodologies to enhance creativity in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Language: English
ISSN: 1664-1078
Master's Thesis
Application of Olfactory Stimuli in a Children's House Montessori Classroom
Available from: MINDS@UW River Falls
Classroom environments, Educational environment, Learning environments, Montessori method of education, Olfactory sensors, Sensorial education, Smell, Three-hour work cycle, Work periods
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of olfactory stimuli using aromatherapy in an early childhood Montessori classroom. This study explores the effectiveness of essential oil in a collective setting with younger students. Also, this research seeks to evaluate the usefulness of aromatherapy as a tool of the Prepared Environment or materials for a Montessori classroom. The 26 students between three to six years old from a Children’s House were observed for 45 minutes during morning work cycle and the data was collected in both control condition (non-essential oil) and lemon essential oil condition days. Lemon essential oil was distributed by two diffusers in the classroom during the research periods. The data was collected collectively and independently. Four quantitative and one qualitative instruments were used for data collection. In conclusion, the lemon essential oil condition lowered productivity and stimulated students during the study period. However, this result indicated that aromatherapy intervention impacted the student’s productivity. With further careful consideration, aromatherapy can be an effective tool for the Prepared Environment and positive intervention if it is the right kind of essential oil.
Language: English
Published: River Falls, Wisconsin, 2020
Article
Artistic Expression and the Unfolding Self: Expressive Adults, Expressive Children
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 24, no. 3
Date: 1999
Pages: 5-18
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Abstract/Notes: Discusses the role of Montessori education in developing lifelong skills for creativity. Considers self-expression the key to recovering human authenticity and spirit. Urges teachers and parents to develop this inner self in themselves and their children as a barrier against contemporary materialism, hurried life, and alienation caused by high-tech communications, suggesting a new definition of creativity. (JPB)
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
N.C.M.E. Elementary Training, Amarillo, Texas and Lessons Given to Elementary Montessori Children
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter
Date: 1986
Pages: 8–9
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Language: English
Article
Children and Community Life
Available from: Internet Archive
Publication: The Western Comrade, vol. 3, no. 2
Date: Jun 1915
Pages: 15-19
Americas, Llano del Rio Colony, Montessori method of education, North America, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
Article
The Montessori Movement; Teaching of English Children
Available from: The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive - Gale
Publication: The Times Educational Supplement (London, England)
Date: Jan 5, 1915
Pages: 8
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori movement, Great Britain
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Language: English
ISSN: 0040-7887
Book
Mathematics for Montessori Children
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Language: English
Published: River Forest, Illinois: Montessori Publications, n.d.
Article
Geometry in the Children's House
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 2006, no. 2
Date: 2006
Pages: 14–22
Geometry, Maria Montessori - Writings, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools
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Abstract/Notes: excerpts from Psicogeometria
Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Book Section
La "Casa dei Bambini" e il Metodo di Maria Montessori / The "Children's House" and the Method of Maria Montessori
Book Title: Roma 1907: La Prima Casa dei Bambini di Maria Montessori / The First Children's House of Maria Montessori
Pages: 11-36
Children's House (Casa dei Bambini), Europe, Italy, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, Southern Europe
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Language: English, Italian
Published: Rome, Italy: Opera Nazionale Montessori, 2006
ISBN: 88-88227-33-4
Article
Le Case dei bambini nella Calabria di inizio Novecento attraverso l’Archivio Storico dell’ANIMI / Montessori’s Children’s Houses in Calabria at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in the Historic Archive of the ANIMI
Available from: Rivista di Storia dell’Educazione
Publication: Rivista di Storia dell’Educazione, vol. 8, no. 2
Date: 2021
Pages: 97-107
Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d’Italia (ANIMI), Europe, Italy, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: The birth of Montessori’s Case dei Bambini (“Children’s Houses”) and the adoption of her innovative teaching method constitute an interesting chapter in the renewal of educational practices in Italy in the early years of the 20th century. Spreading from North to South, the biggest impact was felt where the social question was most acute. Milan, Rome and Città di Castello (the location of the Villa Montesca belonging to Leopoldo Franchetti and his wife Alice Hallgarten), together with very small communities such as those of Ferruzzano and Saccuti in the province of Reggio Calabria, were ideal contexts in which to test the assumptions of Maria Montessori’s approach to pedagogy. Specifically, this paper examines the experience of the Children’s Houses and nursery schools set up in Calabria by the Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d’Italia (ANIMI, the National Association for the Interests of the Italian Mezzogiorno). The use of partly unpublished materials kept in the Association’s Historic Archive makes it possible to reconstruct the enthusiasm for the Montessori method of some teachers who were not from Calabria and to assess its positive effects on the children, who were among the country’s most neglected, often condemned to a series of privations.
Language: Italian
DOI: 10.36253/rse-10369
ISSN: 2532-2818