MONTESSORI SYSTEM OF EDUCATION AND ITS IMPACT ON REAL LIFE A Dissertation By ISHRAT-UN-NISSA ASHIQ ALI VERTEJEE B.Com (Karachi University)‚ 1989 Montessori Diploma (A.M.I.)‚ 2002 B.Ed. (Indus University)‚ 2012 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF EDUCATION IQRA UNIVERSITY‚ GULSHAN CAMPUS‚ KARACHI‚ PAKISTAN August‚ 2014 ABSTRACT Education is considered as the back bone of any Society. Montessori System of Education plays a vital role in the
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The Montessori approach to education follows the lines of developmental psychology and education should be an aid in life. lt is a comprehensive educational approach from birth to adulthood. Developmental education is concentrated on the phases of the individual’s growth from birth to maturity. It tries to respond to the child needs as he develops to help the process of his adaptation‚ without laying too much stress on the program officially imposed .Dr Maria Montessori wrote `education is to help
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Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting the Universe Mike Cunningham 12-27-96 Social Studies 2‚ Mr. Johnson Dr. Jack Kevorkian did something that most people would never even think of doing or think that someone would do such a thing. He really did disrupt the universe by taking the whole world by surprise. Jack Kevorkian was the first person in the United States to assist in suicides in a big way. He started in 1990 by placing a newspaper add for assisted suicide. He then developed
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It will be unfair if we do not acknowledge the services and work of Dr. Maria in discovering the child. She was a keen observer of children. She studied them scientifically. She conducted various studies and found that children loved to do small constructed work provided it suited the age and stage of development. She also found that children reveal inner need for order. Children are also capable of choosing their own activity suitable to their capacity. Following are the main findings she
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THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT Montessori classrooms provide a prepared environment where children are free to respond to their natural tendency to work. The prepared environment offers the essential elements for optimal development. The key components comprise the children‚ teacher and physical surroundings including the specifically designed Montessori educational material.There are prepared environments for children at each successive developmental plane. These environments allow children to take
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when he is especially sensitive to certain aspects of the environment. They appear through patterns of repeated behaviour. The Sensitive Periods are not linear‚ i.e.‚ they do not follow one after the other; some overlap and some are continuous. Montessori education was developed with attention to the Sensitive Periods as a central theme. If a child is prohibited these sensitive periods‚ the natural consequences are shown with the disturbing effect on psychic development and maturity. As soon as a
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Montessori Montessori Method has not only developed in the United States‚ but has spread worldwide. There are over 4000 Montessori schools in the United States and Canada‚ and total about 20‚000 worldwide. Parts of the world include Asia‚ Western Europe‚ New Zealand‚ Australia‚ and Central and South America. The general impression is that all Montessori schools are the same‚ however‚ there is a great deal of diversity within the school system; no two schools are the same. Montessori schools
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Dr. Maria Montessori and Colin Powell are both passionate authors of texts on how they believe children should be educated. In Maria Montessori’s Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook‚ she writes on her belief of how a teacher should be like a “guide” in a student’s life and how a child should be left free to develop their own personality. In contrast‚ Powell’s Kids Need Structure‚ he explains his beliefs that a teacher should educate in the manner of that of a “drill sergeant” and that children need a great
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Dr Montessori loved mathematics. In Italy in the 1880 she chose to attend a boy’s technical school just so she could study mathematics. This love of mathematics is very visible in the wonderful materials she designed so young children could share her enthusiasm. In the Montessori view the ‘mathematical mind’ is a manifestation of several human tendencies. “Humans are driven to explore and to investigate their environment. To this effectively‚ they need to orient themselves in an ordered way” (Feez
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to the universe – the cosmic connections that enable people to co-exist with other humans and things – living and non-living? Is this apparent disconnection‚ as evidenced by our treatment of nature and each other‚ simply a lack of awareness or is there is lack of concern about the overall humanity and its connections? Awareness of the history of the universe‚ the creation‚ the chaos‚ the circle of life‚ the central role of humans‚ and the notion of how it all co-exists may be the key to finding
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