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Montessori and Bronfenbrenner
The most effective classroom environment is one in which there is a sense of trust, advocacy for the student, engaging learning activities, and a sense of regular adventure. Students should be encouraged to actualize, to participate, and to think of their classroom as a community. Because each individual is unique in their learning style, classroom success is based on flexibility and the willingness to adapt and evolve on a moment's notices -- the idea of fluid intuition taken to the nth degree. Within the modern pedagogical rubric, classroom management remains challenging at almost every level. One way to understand the theoretical basis of learning and the pedagogical issues surrounding learning is to understand some of the theories surrounding the subject. We need a template or structure from which to base our assumptions, and to formulate the reasons for our decisions and ideas.
Maria Montessori, for example, based much of her philosophy on the work of 19th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For Rousseau, and Montessori, humans are born into a natural sense of goodness and until society influences them, are uncorrupt. It is the educator's responsibility to prevent that for as...
Education prepares children for life, not for any specific social institution. Since each person is born with innate gifts that are unique to their own personality, the perceptive educator must nurture those gifts and help the child discover their own individual purpose. Because the process of education is individualized, the school should be away from an indoor "room" and, if possible, in the country, without textbooks, in which the teacher uses nature to discuss science, art, history, philosophy, etc. Rote memorization is discouraged, as is corporal punishment. In fact, the two most important lessons for Rousseau's viewpoints on education are that the child learns morality by experiencing the consequences of inappropriate acts and that the most important thing a teacher can do is guide the process of thinking and reading, so that the child can explore the world through their own gifts (Ibid). This is particularly important when thinking about children as open books -- the ability for children to conceptualize, actualize, and as learning sponges, retain a tremendous amount of stimuli -- all types of stimuli (Hainstock, 1997).
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REFERENCES and WORKS CONSULTED
Bronfenbrenner, Y. (1979). The Ecology of Human Development. New Haven, CT: Harvard University Press.
Dougiamas, M. (1998, November). A Journey into Constructivism. Retrieved from Dougiamas.Com: http://dougiamas.com/writing/constructivism.html
Hainstock, E. (1997). The Essential Montessori. New York: Plume Publishers.
Johnson-Larid, P. (2009). How We Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Montessori School Advantages Why would a parent send a child to a Montessori classroom? The answer to that question will be provided in this paper, because Montessori schools provide educational opportunities for children that are rarely if ever successfully offered elsewhere. The strategies employed by Montessori teachers are far more holistic than in traditional public school environments, and hence, Montessori has earned a sterling reputation therein. This paper provides the background