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Article
The Initial American Reception of the Montessori Method
Publication: Education Digest, vol. 34, no. 2
Date: Oct 1968
Pages: 49-51
Americas, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori movement, Montessori organizations - United States of America, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 0013-127X
Article
Significant Books; Learning How To Learn, An American Approach to Montessori. Nancy McCormick Rambusch
Available from: ASCD
Publication: Educational Leadership, vol. 20, no. 2
Date: Nov 1962
Pages: 137, 139, 141, 143
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Language: English
ISSN: 0013-1784, 1943-5878
Article
ACE [Americans for Choice in Education] Offers Alternative to Federal Recognition of Accreditation
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 15, no. 1
Date: Mar 1994
Pages: 1, 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
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ACE [Americans for Choice in Education] Convenes Conference on Educational Choice [October, 1995]
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 16, no. 3
Date: Sep 1995
Pages: 3
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
Article
Montessori in the Former USSR: Russia: An American in Yakutsk
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 7, no. 4
Date: Summer 1995
Pages: 21
Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia, Russia, Western Asia
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
A Comparison of Reading and Math Achievement for African American Third Grade Students in Montessori and Other Magnet Schools
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: Journal of Negro Education, vol. 86, no. 4
Date: 2017
Pages: 439-448
Academic achievement, African American community, African Americans, Americas, Comparative education, Lower elementary, Mathematics - Academic achievement, Montessori method of education - Evaluation, North America, Reading - Academic achievement, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: Montessori programs are expanding in public schools, serving a large proportion of African American students. Although recent Montessori research has focused on diverse public school populations, few studies have examined outcomes for African American students at the lower elementary level. This quasi-experimental study compares reading and math achievement for African American third grade students in public Montessori and other magnet schools in a large, urban district in North Carolina. Scores from end-of-grade state tests of reading and math are compared using a multivariate analysis of covariance. No significant difference in math scores was identified, but students in Montessori schools scored significantly higher in reading. This suggests that Montessori lower elementary instruction may be beneficial for African American students.
Language: English
DOI: 10.7709/jnegroeducation.86.4.0439
ISSN: 0022-2984, 2167-6437
Article
Surviving an Earthquake in El Salvador [during Central American Seminar on Montessori Education]
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 13, no. 4
Date: Summer 2001
Pages: 16, 18
Americas, Central America, El Salvador, Latin America and the Caribbean, Public Montessori
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.)
American Muslim Tarbiya: Parents, Experts, ʿUlamāʾ, and Debates about Mothering
Available from: Knowledge UChicago
Islamic Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: This dissertation accounts for debates around correct American Muslim mothering in the 21st century. It centers around the following underlying questions: What advice do Muslim modernists and Sunni ʿulamāʾ offer to mothers for raising Muslims in the limited, privatized spaces of their nurseries, homes, and mosque communities? How do Muslim mothers who desire to rear children communally, in harmony with their fiṭra (innate nature) and according to traditional notions of tarbiya (development, education) accomplish this as religious minorities in a hyper capitalist, secular modern context? What are the different ways that mothers negotiate the ideas of Muslim advice-givers, which sometimes clash both internally and with the diverse opinions of American pediatricians, psychologists, and neuroscientists? This study considers the nuanced impact secular modernity, feminism, and the expanding authority of the medical and psy disciplines have had on American Muslim child-rearing practices, reconfigurations of gender roles in Muslim families and the intergenerational transmission of American Islam. To gauge this impact, this dissertation narrowly focuses on two highly contested decisions mothers make in early childhood: how to feed infants after birth and whether to corporally punish young children. The data for this project was collected from in-depth fieldwork interviews with a diverse sample of Muslim mothers conducted in 2017 in the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. This data was analyzed by situating the types of religious and parenting education mothers had both received and sought out and by surveying the Islamic scriptural and jurisprudential texts, contemporary childrearing manuals, and social media sources that informed their child-rearing practices. This dissertation found that most mothers were much more likely to formula feed or breastfeed their infants themselves than allow other mothers to nurse their children. None of my interlocutors engaged wet nurses or used donated human milk for infant feeding. Additionally, most mothers disapproved of using corporal punishment for children’s discipline, either by themselves or others in loco parentis. Corporal punishment of children was increasingly viewed not as one method among many to cultivate children’s embodiment of ritual practices, but as child abuse. However, a minority of mothers demonstrated an openness to sharing milk and employing constrained forms of physical discipline in specific circumstances. In investigating the ever-shifting child-rearing advice from religious scholars (ʿulamāʾ), non-Muslim scientific experts, and a hybridized class of Muslim parent educators, this dissertation offers another avenue for understanding the fragmented nature of religious authority in American Muslim communities. It contributes to the growing body of scholarship that tracks the rising popularity of Sunnī rationalism and traditionalism by noting the way it attracts mothers who long for styles of parenting that are more shared and communal and less demanding and intensive. Finally, this dissertation affords insights into ongoing contestation over what constitutes correct, ethical tarbiya and how best to integrate and transmit American Islam
Language: English
Published: Chicago, Illinois, 2023
Book
Montessori and American Education Literature: An Unfinished Chapter in the History of Ideas
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: American Montessori Society, 1962
Book
Proceedings of the International Symposium, American College of Greece, Athens, August 13-15, 1979
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: American Montessori Society, 1980