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Senior Capstone Project
Closing School Climate Gaps at Elm City Montessori School
Available from: Yale University - Education Studies Program
Americas, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: Despite the accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement, students from racially and socioeconomically marginalized communities continue to attend schools whose climates are hostile to their needs — educators have made students argue the “pros and cons” of imperialism, disproportionately punished their BIPOC students, and failed to challenge the racism that Black students endure (“Stories,” n.d.). Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all solution that integrated schools can adopt to ensure all students feel welcomed, respected, and heard. Through interviews, survey data, and classroom observations, this capstone identifies school climate needs, namely as they pertain to resources, relationships, and restorative disciplinary practices, at one integrated PreK3-8 school, Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) in New Haven, Connecticut. This capstone concludes that while ECMS effectively honors and celebrates its diversity, the school should evaluate the allocation of curricular resources, build stronger ties to the New Haven community, and proactively support student mental health. The findings suggest that the ECMS should, in addition to adopting other reforms, invest more in LGBTQIA+ books and work alongside local advocacy groups to help achieve these goals. While this capstone is not generalizable, its findings show that all integrated schools must continue to critically assess if diversity within their buildings translates into a welcoming or hostile space.
Language: English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut, 2023
Article
The Birth of a Public School Montessori Program [Central Kitsap School District, Washington]
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 4, no. 1
Date: 1992
Pages: 11
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
A School Opens, A Parent Celebrates [Hull-Jackson Montessori Magnet School, Nashville, Tennessee]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 11, no. 1
Date: Fall 1998
Pages: 11
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Doctoral Dissertation
Skolans Levda Rum och Lärandets Villkor: Meningsskapande i Montessoriskolans Fysiska Miljö [The School's Living Space and the Conditions of Learning: Creating Meaning in the Montessori School's Physical Environment]
Architecture, Design, Environment, Europe, Nordic countries, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Sweden
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Abstract/Notes: This study examines the school’s physical environment as a place of learning, and takes its starting point in the phenomenology movement, inspired both by Merleau-Ponty’s thesis of man’s physical relation to the world and by the existential analysis represented by Heidegger which implies a mutual relationship between man and the world. Such a view rejects a standpoint which describes man as being divided between a material body and a thinking soul. Instead, there emerges an embodied self which engages in meaningful interaction with its surroundings. The choice of this standpoint has implications for the design of the school’s physical environment. Montessori pedagogy is one of the activity-based pedagogies which have designed the physical environment in line with this theory. The purpose of the study is to understand, but further to visualise, the way in which the conditions for learning for children and adolescents are created in schools, from pre-school to lower secondary level, which follow the Montessori pedagogy. The material for the empirical study has been gathered from Europe and the US and from differing social contexts. The reason for this is to discover what distinguishes the prepared environment. The study also discusses the way in which the argument for a form of schooling which is based on activity, from the early 20th century to the present day, has been addressed through the architectural design of schools. The thesis shows that the rich array of didactic material in the schools observed offers pupils the opportunity to perform activities which create meaning. The organisation of the environment provides the pupils with the necessary conditions to concentrate fully on their work and to complete their tasks without interruption. I see the didactic continuity which prevails from pre-school to the lower secondary school in the Montessori schools studied as a prerequisite if the pedagogical activity is to offer meaning and create the conditions for learning in the way demonstrated by the empirical studies.
Language: Swedish
Published: Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
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The First Charter School [Bluffview School, Winona, Minnesota]
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 14, no. 3
Date: 2002
Pages: 40–41
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Starting a Montessori High School: Elonera [Elonera Montessori School, Wollongong, NSW]
Publication: Montessori Matters, no. 1
Date: May 1999
Pages: 7–10
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Language: English
Article
Delaware Charter School Approved for 1999 Start [The Montessori Community School, Wilmington, Delaware]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 11, no. 1
Date: Fall 1998
Pages: 30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
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Montessori Milestones [Sandra Sommer; Patricia Dorton; Claremont School, Annandale, VA; University Montessori School, Irvine, CA; Kerry Raines Lydon; Peggy Loeffler; Earth Day; teacher education scholarships]
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 1, no. 1
Date: 1989
Pages: 29–30
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
The OEkos Schools Program [13 participating schools]
Publication: OEkosphere [Œkosphere], vol. 1, no. 5
Date: Nov/Dec 1995
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Article
Cooperation Between Parents and Preschool Institutions Through Different Concepts of Preschool Education
Available from: Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
Publication: Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, vol. 7, no. 4
Date: 2017
Pages: 207-226
Europe, Slovenia, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: This paper analyses the importance, role, and methods of cooperation between parents and preschool institutions through the different concepts of preschool education and different educational approaches and formal frameworks. Through educational approaches, the authors analyse how cooperation affects the implementation of preschool education in alternative educational approaches, such as the Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia approaches, and Slovenian public preschool institutions. They envisage that different educational approaches in preschool education perceive the importance and role of cooperation with parents differently and conclude that there are various models of cooperation, which can be demonstrated through a theoretical analysis of the aforementionedalternative preschool approaches. In their view, partnership promotes a shared commitment to the quality realisation of educational goals; it also develops understanding and an ethos of openness in the relationship between all actors in the process of care and education ofpreschool children.
Language: English
DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.372
ISSN: 2232-2647, 1855-9719