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Article
Kids Korner [poems by children]
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 29, no. 1
Date: 2005
Pages: 24–25
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Language: English
Master's Thesis (Action Research Report)
Witnessing the Unlimited Potential of Children Being Peaceful: Impact of Proactive Restorative Circle Practice on Early Childhood Students in a Montessori Setting
Available from: St. Catherine University
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this action research was to study the effects that daily proactive restorative circle practice (PRCP) had on speaking skills, listening, and positive classroom culture amongst Montessori Children's House students. The research took place over a four week period of time in a two way immersion Children's House in a Montessori public charter school in the Midwest. The population included 8 students ages 4-5.5 years. Students participated in a daily proactive restorative circle each afternoon. The researcher also observed students during lunch to collect data on any influence the PRCP had outside of circle time. Data was collected through field notes, tallies, and a sense of community scale. The intervention suggested an increase in speaking skills and maintaining positive classroom culture. Students also demonstrated an increased sense of responsibility and accountability to the implementation of PRCP. Continued research is needed to determine the effectiveness of PRCP with more participants as well as how the effects of the PRCP transfer over to the general classroom experience.
Language: English
Published: St. Paul, Minnesota, 2020
Article
Children and Environment: An Interview with Roger Hart
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 11, no. 3
Date: 1999
Pages: 26–30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
The Magic School Bus Dilemma: How Fantasy Affects Children’s Learning from Stories
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 210
Date: Oct 1, 2021
Pages: Article 105212
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Fantasy in children
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Abstract/Notes: Although children’s books often include fantasy, research suggests that children do not learn as well from fantastical stories as from realistic ones. The current studies investigated whether the type of fantasy matters, in effect testing two possible mechanisms for fantasy’s interference. Across two studies, 110 5-year-olds were read different types of fantastical stories containing a problem and then were asked to solve an analogous problem in a real lab setting. Children who were read a minimally fantastical version of the story, in which the story occurred on another planet “that looked just like Earth,” were no more likely to transfer the solution than children who heard a story that was slightly more fantastical in that the story occurred on another planet and that planet looked different from Earth (e.g., orange grass, a green sky). In contrast, significantly higher rates of learning were observed when the story contained those elements and two physically impossible events (e.g., walking through walls). Furthermore, this improvement was obtained only when the impossible events preceded, and not when they followed, the educational content. Although fantasy may sometimes detract from learning (as other research has shown), these new studies suggest that minimal fantasy does not and that particular types of fantasy may even increase learning. We propose that the mechanism for this may be that a small dose of impossible events induces deeper processing of the subsequent events in the story.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105212
ISSN: 0022-0965
Article
The Vital Needs of Young Children
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3
Date: Fall/Winter 1985
Pages: 39
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
Article
Children's House
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1
Date: Fall 1977
Pages: 37-46
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, Prepared environment
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Language: English
Article
The Psychical Hygiene of Small Children
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1959, no. 1/2
Date: 1959
Pages: 8–11
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
Seeing the Classroom from the New Children's Point of View
Publication: Point of Interest, vol. 8, no. 10
Date: Jun 1998
Pages: 1–4
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Language: English
Article
Montessori Admires Taste for Learning; Americans More Interested in Training Children, Says Italian Educator
Available from: ProQuest - Historical Newspapers
Publication: Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California)
Date: Apr 30, 1915
Pages: II-8
Americas, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, North America, United States of America
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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