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Article

The Initial American Reception of the Montessori Method

Publication: Education Digest, vol. 34, no. 2

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

Pages: 137, 139, 141, 143

Book reviews

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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

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

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

Pages: 21

Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia, Russia, Western Asia

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Language: English

ISSN: 1071-6246

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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

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

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

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