Maria Montessori

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Course Outline

  1. New Education and Its Historical Context
  2. Montessori Principles and Adult Role
  3. Montessori Classroom and Practice
  4. Freinet’s Context and Development
  5. Freinet’s Cooperative Pedagogy
  6. Reggio Emilia’s Origins and Values
  7. Reggio Emilia’s Languages and Tools
  8. Comparing the Three Approaches

Key Dates

  1. 1889Cecil Reddie opened Abbotsholme, emphasizing practical teaching, manual work, and moral education rather than exam cramming.
  2. 1907Montessori opened the Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo, Rome.
  3. 1921the International League for New Education was founded as a forum for pedagogues to meet and exchange practices.
  4. 1924Freinet introduced printing into his classroom.
  5. 1935Freinet opened the privately run school at Vence.
  6. 1947the Freinet movement took the name Institut coopératif de l’École moderne (ICEM).
  7. 1963the first municipal preschool in Reggio Emilia opened under the name Robinson Crusoe.
  8. 1994Malaguzzi died, and Reggio Children was created a few months later.

1. New Education and Its Historical Context

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1. Which criticism did New Education pedagogues make of conventional schooling?

2. New Education’s educational aims include:

3. Which description captures the dual role of a pedagogue?

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What two roles define a pedagogue?

An educational practitioner and a theorist of educational practice.

What did New Education pedagogues seek to make pupils do more actively?

Participate in their own learning.

Which kinds of development does New Education include?

Intellectual, artistic, physical, manual, and social development.

Who developed the Montessori method, and what was her profession and nationality?

Maria Montessori was an Italian physician who became a pedagogue.

Who was initially intended to benefit from Montessori’s method?

Children with disabilities.

In which year and city did Montessori open the Casa dei Bambini?

1907, in Rome.

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