In What Way Does Using the Sensorial Materials Help the Child’s Whole Development? Give Examples
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In what way does using the sensorial materials help the child’s whole development? Give examples
“All knowledge comes through the senses” – Aristotle
The word sensorial is derived from the words sense or senses. The conventional five senses, attributed to Aristotle, are classified as sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste. However, humans have at least nine different senses including interoceptive senses such as thermoception (heat, cold), nociception (pain), equilibrioception (balance, gravity), proprioception & kinesthesia (joint motion and acceleration) and sense of time.
Maria Montessori believed that sensorial experiences started in the womb and continued after birth and that through his senses the child is able to learn and work in his environment. Through being a ‘sensorial explorer’ the child begins to understand his environment. The discrimination of size, colour, sound, smell and taste are achieved by using sensorial material. Sensorial material provides the links to future work in the areas of Mathematics, Language, Geography, Botany, Zooloogy etc. Concrete and tangible experiences are provided by the materials to help classify the impressions received from the senses. Children learn to develop sensory impressions of the world around them. The materials are not intended to give new impressions, but to allow for the ordering, classification, refinement, exploration and realisation of the sense impressions that the child has perceived. The sensorial material allows a child to make use of all his various senses and therefore assists in the holistic development of the child.
Sensorial materials are seen as tools for development. Maria Montessori believed that there is noting in the intellect that was not first experienced via the senses. Children are able to build cognitive effectiveness and efficiency and learn to order and classify impressions. This is done by touching, seeing, smelling, tasting, listening, and exploring the
In what way does using the sensorial materials help the child’s whole development? Give examples
“All knowledge comes through the senses” – Aristotle
The word sensorial is derived from the words sense or senses. The conventional five senses, attributed to Aristotle, are classified as sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste. However, humans have at least nine different senses including interoceptive senses such as thermoception (heat, cold), nociception (pain), equilibrioception (balance, gravity), proprioception & kinesthesia (joint motion and acceleration) and sense of time.
Maria Montessori believed that sensorial experiences started in the womb and continued after birth and that through his senses the child is able to learn and work in his environment. Through being a ‘sensorial explorer’ the child begins to understand his environment. The discrimination of size, colour, sound, smell and taste are achieved by using sensorial material. Sensorial material provides the links to future work in the areas of Mathematics, Language, Geography, Botany, Zooloogy etc. Concrete and tangible experiences are provided by the materials to help classify the impressions received from the senses. Children learn to develop sensory impressions of the world around them. The materials are not intended to give new impressions, but to allow for the ordering, classification, refinement, exploration and realisation of the sense impressions that the child has perceived. The sensorial material allows a child to make use of all his various senses and therefore assists in the holistic development of the child.
Sensorial materials are seen as tools for development. Maria Montessori believed that there is noting in the intellect that was not first experienced via the senses. Children are able to build cognitive effectiveness and efficiency and learn to order and classify impressions. This is done by touching, seeing, smelling, tasting, listening, and exploring the
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