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Kids Korner [poems by children]

Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 29, no. 1

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

Action research

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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

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Children and Environment: An Interview with Roger Hart

Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 11, no. 3

Pages: 26–30

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Language: English

ISSN: 1054-0040

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The Magic School Bus Dilemma: How Fantasy Affects Children’s Learning from Stories

Available from: ScienceDirect

Publication: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 210

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

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The Vital Needs of Young Children

Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3

Pages: 39

North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals

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Language: English

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Children's House

Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1

Pages: 37-46

North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals, Prepared environment

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Language: English

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The Psychical Hygiene of Small Children

Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1959, no. 1/2

Pages: 8–11

Health and hygiene

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Language: English

ISSN: 0519-0959

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Seeing the Classroom from the New Children's Point of View

Publication: Point of Interest, vol. 8, no. 10

Pages: 1–4

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Language: English

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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)

Pages: II-8

Americas, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, North America, United States of America

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Language: English

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Children and Community Life

Available from: Internet Archive

Publication: The Western Comrade, vol. 3, no. 2

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

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