such a delicate task‚ a great art must suggest the moment‚ and limit the intervention in order that we shall arouse no perturbation‚ cause no deviation‚ but rather that we shall help the soul which is coming into the fullness of life‚ and which shall live from its own forces. This art must accompany the scientific method.” Dr.Maria Montessori‚ The Montessori Method Comment on the above statement and explain your understanding of the role of the educator in assisting the child in his development
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discipline The Montessori meaning of discipline is not the kind of external discipline‚ that is something the teacher does to control or command the child‚ for "listening doesn’t make a man". Rather it is the child who internalizes the rules and feels that he/she is responsible for his/her acts. This is an "active discipline" attained when the child is "the master of himself and when he can‚ as a consequence‚ control himself when he must follow a rule of life”. Thus for Montessori‚ her definition
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In this essay we will be discussing normalisation and linking it with the concept of deviations. Outline the importance of the favourable environment in supporting normalisation. We going to explain the maturational nature of normalisation linked to the child’s growing socialisation. Also describing the teacher’s initial approach with new children. Explaining the change in the teacher’s role as each child begins to concentrate and focus on activities‚ and the impact this has on the child’s growing
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The term “Absorbent Mind” was developed during Dr. Montessori’s seven-year internment in India. During this time period Montessori was able to work with older children. This experience helped her to recognize the unique aspects of the 0-6 child’s absorbent mind. The absorbent mind is categorized into two levels. The first level is that of unconscious learning‚ the period from ages 0-3. The child at this stage is learning through absorption of the environment‚ as well as through their innate
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The Child as Spiritual Embryo Montessori often compared the process of psychological and spiritual development to the physical unfolding of the human organism. Just as the material body first takes shape as a selfforming embryo‚ requiring during its formation the protection and nurturance of the womb that envelopes it‚ the human soul first appears in the newborn child in an embryonic form that requires nourishment from a psychic womb—the protective environment of loving‚ caring parents and
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Mind - Chapter 7 The Secret of Childhood Chapter 6 Montessori: A Modern Approach - pp30-31 1. 2. 3. 4. Sensitive Periods The Absorbent Mind - Chaps 3‚ 10‚ 11‚ 13 The Secret of Childhood - Chap 7‚ 8 Montessori‚ A Modern Approach - p 32-36 Montessori: Her Life and Work - Chap 7 1. 2. 3. The Absorbent Mind The Absorbent Mind - Chapters 3‚ 7 ‚8 Montessori: Her Life and Work - Chapter 7 Physical Embryo & Spiritual or Psychic Embryo Physical Embryo • Living organism within the
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or less complete while psychologically it is still in the embryonic state. For this reason Dr. Maria Montessori called that the human being is still a "spiritual embryo" when it is born. "Man seems to have two embryonic periods‚ one is prenatal like that of the animals; the other is postnatal and only man has this." -The Absorbent Mind‚ p55‚ Chapter 7. “A child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it‚ and must secretly perfect this inner live over a long period of
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Introduction The Montessori method of education is one of the very unusual approaches of educating young children that has been based on the experiences and research of educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870–1952). The method basically arose from what Dr. Montessori’s discovered and named it the “the child’s normal nature” back in 1907 (Montessori‚ 1972). This happened during one of her experimental observations with young children who had been given the freedom they need d in an environment
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The Absorbent Mind Montessori AMI course 2014-2015 Umadevi Vadla04-01-2015 Index TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Childs part in world reconstruction: education for life PAGEREF _Toc432921001 \h 2Periods of growth PAGEREF _Toc432921002 \h 3The four planes of development PAGEREF _Toc432921003 \h 3The spiritual embryo PAGEREF _Toc432921004 \h 7The child’s conquest of independence PAGEREF _Toc432921005 \h 9Language PAGEREF _Toc432921006 \h 9Importance of movement in general development PAGEREF _Toc432921007
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control of movement are experienced through the exercises of practical life. Movement is the law of the child being. Indeed‚ he has a biological need to move. As a physician‚ Montessori understood the importance of movement. She called her exercises in this area “A help to Life’’. How is motor development encouraged in Montessori classroom? Give examples of exercises that offer opportunities for development in motor development. Movement is the law of the child’s being‚ he has a biological need
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