Regardless of race‚ country‚ or culture‚ people follow similar patterns of exploration‚ inventiveness‚ and creativity. After years of careful observation‚ Maria Montessori was able to identify the importance of tendencies that compel human beings to construct and refine the world around them. The practical application of the Montessori Method is based on human tendencies to explore‚ move‚ share with a group‚ to be independent and make decisions‚ create order‚ develop self-control‚ abstract ideas
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Montessori philosophy interprets “discipline” (Montessori‚1988) and “obedience” (Montessori‚ 1988) in a different way than any other philosophy does. This essay intends to discuss and define those two important factors in detail and explains the difference between them.” Discipline” and “obedience” can only be discussed in combination with freedom in a prepared environment. Freedom not only allows the child to progress in his/her own pace‚ it also fosters the child’s emerging inner discipline. However
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2. What are the discoveries of Dr. Maria Montessori ? Dr. Maria Montessori was a keen observer of children. She used her observational and experimental proclivities from her medical background to develop‚ what we might today call‚ a Constructivist understanding of the process of learning. She studied them scientifically. If she saw some unusual behavior in a child‚ she would say‚”I won’t believe it now‚ I shall if it happens again”. She studied the conditions in which the children would perform
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ABSORBENT MIND ESSAY Dr Montessori discovered that the child possess a mind which is totally different from that of an adult. The child absorbs all that is found around him‚ very much identical to the process of osmosis. A key word before further development about the absorbent mind would be adaptation. Adaptation might be considered as the trigger point. Why ? From his birth‚ in order to survive and to fulfil his role‚ the infant is adapting himself to the environment. He was
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MARIA MONTESSORI BIOGRAPHY Maria Montessori was born on August 31‚ 1870‚ in Chiaravalle‚ Italy. In 1907 she was placed in charge of the Casa dei Bambini school. By 1925‚ more than 1‚000 Montessori schools had opened in the United States. By 1940 the Montessori movement had faded‚ but it was revived in the 1960s. During World War II‚ Montessori developed Education for Peace in India‚ and earned two Nobel Peace Prize nominations. She died May 6‚ 1952‚ in Noordwijk aan Zee‚ Netherlands. Early Life
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to “a special sensibility which a creature acquires in its infantile state" (Montessori‚ 1966‚ p.38). Such sensitive periods were first discovered in insects by the Dutch scientist Hugo de Vries‚ but according to Montessori‚ can also be found in children and are very important to consider in teaching. Each sensitive period is a "transient disposition and is limited to the acquisition of a particular trait" (Montessori‚ 1966‚ p.38). Once the sensitive period is over‚ the sensibility disappears due
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“Education should no longer be mostly imparting of knowledge‚ but must take new path‚ seeking the release of potentialities.” Discuss the statement with reference to Montessori philosophy. Dr Maria Montessori started her work in the field of education and child psychology‚ when she had already obtained a doctor’s degree in medicine and surgery. Her scientific training and experience were exceptionally broad based and unique. Her approach to education encompassed the whole development of man
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Practical Life Rationale Paper 1. Who is Maria Montessori? Please give a brief description of her life. Maria Montessori was the founder of the Montessori approach to education‚ she was born in Italy in 1870. As a teenager she was an engineer‚ but later she studied her favor major of medicine. Graduated as Italy’s first female medical practitioner she embarked on a career in mental health. Following on from this she was asked to head up a childcare project for a social housing initiative and her
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Maria Montessori was one of them. Maria was born in 1870 and became the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree. She embedded herself into her work and made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry‚ anthropology and education. Maria was acclaimed for her education method that built on the way children learned naturally. She believed in order expand any system of education a favorable environment must be created to allow the flow of a child’s natural gift. Maria Montessori was
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Sensorial area expands the child sensory perceptions and knowledge of the world. Maria Montessori called sensorial materials the "key to the universe" because they enable the to perceive‚ identity and classify what he sees‚ touches‚ smells‚ taste and hears. SENSORIAL The Sensorial area of the classroom uses the Sensorial Material to address the child’s Sensitive Period for the Refinement of the Senses. Dr. Montessori stated that the “Sensorial Materials are the keys to universe.” The first step for the
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