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Amit Sharma – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research project explores the interconnections between three constructs: joy, play, and learning. The research specifically focuses on children's ideas and experiences of joy, play, and learning at a public Montessori School in the United States of America and in the context of engaging with selected math games. The games used are…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Play, Learning, Montessori Schools
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Solange Denervaud; David A. Tovar; Jean-François Knebel; Emeline Mullier; Yasser Alemán- Gómez; Patric Hagmann; Micah M. Murray – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
Error-monitoring is a crucial cognitive process that enables us to adapt to the constantly changing environment. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) plays a vital role in error-monitoring, and its prolonged maturation suggests that it can be influenced by experience-dependent plasticity. To explore this possibility, we collected morphometric…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Children, Montessori Schools, Traditional Schools
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Sara Ahmed Sayed Ali; Neila Chettaoui; Ayman Atia; Med. Salim Bouhlel; Dalia Mohamed Abdel Mohaiman – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Montessori considers as an effective method that is commonly used in nurseries to improve the mental performance and develop the cognitive skills toward children. Tangible user interfaces (TUI) is an effective tool that allows interaction with physical objects in a way that makes this interaction augmented through embedded computation. This paper…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Computer Interfaces, Interactive Video, Motivation Techniques
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Stevenson, Sandra Maria – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
As an assistant editor in the Photography department at the New York Times, the author manages a team of seven visual editors who assign photographers to stories all over the globe. Recently, one of her team members approached her to let her know that the amount of violence he was subjected to was having an effect on his mental state. It made the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Violence, Coping, Montessori Schools
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Phillips, Bernadette; O'Toole, Catriona; McGilloway, Sinéad; Phillips, Stephen – Journal of Montessori Research, 2022
Childhood adversity and trauma are pervasive and have powerful, far-reaching consequences for health and well-being. Recent years have seen increased recognition of the need for trauma-informed practice, which aims to promote understanding, healing, and the prevention of retraumatization. Historical data show that the early Montessori schools were…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Trauma, Early Experience
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Gynther, Per; Ahlquist, Eva-Maria Tebano – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2022
The aim of this article is to understand how Montessori education, according to Maria Montessori, will enable 6--12-year-olds to meet future challenges and to care for and contribute to the wellbeing of society and the planet as a whole. This article reports on a qualitative content analysis of four books written by Maria Montessori. The analysis…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Ecology
O'Shaughnessy, Molly – NAMTA Journal, 2016
"Children have the potential to create a world we cannot imagine. This is our hope." In choosing Montessori, O'Shaughnessy says that we are choosing the road less traveled. We are choosing education as an aid to life. We are choosing an approach that respects the innate and unique potential of each child and that calls upon us to serve…
Descriptors: Observation, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Children
Kripalani, Lakshmi A. – NAMTA Journal, 2016
The adult who is inexperienced in the art of observation may, even with the best intentions, react to a child's behavior in a way that hinders instead of helping the child's development. Kripalani outlines the need for training and practice in observation in order to "understand the needs of the children and...to understand how to remove…
Descriptors: Observation, Children, Child Behavior, Research Skills
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Kirkham, Julie Ann; Kidd, Evan – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2017
Pretence and creativity are often regarded as ubiquitous characteristics of childhood, yet not all education systems value or promote these attributes to the same extent. Different pedagogies and practices are evident within the UK National Curriculum, Steiner and Montessori schools. In this study, 20 children participated from each of these…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Creativity, Play, Foreign Countries
Taylor, Liesl Heide – NAMTA Journal, 2017
"Just as every child is human, every child, no matter the circumstances, deserves an education that promotes his or her development to the fullest human potential." Using Cornerstone Montessori, a public Montessori school, as a case study, Liesl Taylor sets out to show the importance and impact that the Montessori approach can have on…
Descriptors: Children, Montessori Schools, Case Studies, Elementary School Students
Montessori, Maria – NAMTA Journal, 2013
This article vividly describes the indoor and outdoor components of what Montessori calls Home Sweet Home. Her vision of a domestic Children's House contains many facets: rooms of varied space, beautiful flooring, gardens that educate and evoke collaboration, and places for year-round exercise. This is a definitive yet rare Montessori article that…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational Environment, Physical Environment
Soholt, Polli – NAMTA Journal, 2013
Polli Soholt writes about advanced practical life and demonstrates that adding more challenge and complexity for older children leads to more social cooperation. Activities such as washing dishes, polishing, sewing, and food preparation take the child beyond the need to refine basic skills. The older primary children find more reality in tasks…
Descriptors: Children, Housework, Skill Development, Elementary School Students
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Jokanovic, Lila S. – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2013
The children and staff at Council Oak Montessori enjoy a unique opportunity to experience Dr. Montessori's theory of Cosmic Education through all of its stages--from the 3-year-old who first comes to the school to the 15-year-old who completes its Middle School program. And it makes the author thinks much more actively about how the faculty and…
Descriptors: School Activities, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Early Childhood Education
Ludick, Pat – NAMTA Journal, 2013
Recognizing Maria and Mario Montessori's reverence for the hand, Pat Ludick takes the reader into the wonder of the human body, mind, and spirit and across the planes of education, into the making of a whole personality and grounded intelligence that is ready for the adult world. Putting the hand front and center, she lyrically evolves an overview…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Elementary Education, Human Body
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Peters, Dane L. – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2013
Getting to know one's child's teachers will help parents know where they are coming from and why they are teaching. It might also give parents insight into the relationship they have with their child or children. This article illustrates what the author means through a story. The author suggests that parents need talk to their child's teachers.…
Descriptors: Parents, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Teaching Methods
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