What is sensitive period and the environment required for sensitive period At birth the child ’s physical development is more 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
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1. What are the six sensitive periods? Describe each briefly. Sensitivity to order: From the age of one to the age of three‚ the child expresses their need for stability. At this time the child is extremely sensitive to order. The child will in some cases be distressed or very upset if there is a slight change in the environment‚ since children is formed by their surroundings they have the need to accuracy and control. Refinement of senses: The young child has a strong desire to know and
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Sensorial Notes 6-25 “Helen Keller”‚ says Dr. Montessori in her handbook‚ “is a marvelous example of the phenomenon common to all human beings; the possibility of the liberation of the imprisoned spirit of man by the education of the senses.” It is this phenomenon which Dr. Montessori considered to be the basic of her method of education. Sensorial: * Trains and refines the senses * Comparison‚ gradation‚ classification * Child absorbs the properties of the physical objects in the environment
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six years passes through the ‘sensitive period for the refinement of senses’ and they can be helped in the development of the senses while they are in this formative period. In order to serve this purpose Dr. Maria Montessori introduced a subject called ‘Sensorial’ where the materials are specially designed to enable the children to use their senses to explore different attributes of the world. “it is necessary to begin the education of senses in the formative period‚ if we wish to perfect these
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Introduction to Sensorial Sensorial education is the education of the senses. It is the heart of a montessori education. Nature has endowed us with ten senses. There is the visual sense‚ the sense of sight. The acoustic sense‚ the sense of hearing. The olfactory sense‚ the sense of smell. The gustatory sense‚ the sense of taste. The tactile sense‚ the sense of touch. The muscular sense‚ the awareness of movement. The stereognostic sense‚ the ability to determine three dimensional
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SENSITIVE PERIODS IN SUMMARY AND IMPLICATION FOR MONTESSORI TEACHERS SENSITIVE PERIOD FOR MOVEMENT • Movement is tied to intelligence KEYWORDS ADDITIONAL IDEAS SENSITIVE TO WHAT Movement/Activity (sitting‚ crawling‚ cruising etc) WHEN DOES IT APPEAR PEAK DISAPPEARS It appears at pre-birth (0 month) 1-2 years At death and cessation of movement (paralysis) DEVELOPMENTAL AIM - To enable the child to explore his own environment - To perfect himself and his personality through work with
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Why are sensorial materials an essential part of the prepared environment and how does the sensorial materials assist the child in his explorations of the world? Undeniably sensorial materials play a prominent‚ positive and profound influence to help the child in his exploration of the world around. In the early nineteenth century‚ the British romantic poets also could visualize the significance and importance of sensuous sensibility of five senses. Dr. Montessori contributed in putting her ideas
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Sensorial Education The aim of Sensorial education is to develop a child’s intelligence by building on his experiences and thought processes‚ to connect the child and his environment through the isolation of his senses. Maria Montessori believed that we begin sensorial experiences from the womb and continue to develop them through childhood. The senses cannot be developed overnight‚ it is only though regular training of the senses that the child’s senses will start to develop and become refined.
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Sensorial education begins the mionte a baby is born. He receives impressions through his senses. Mria Montessori believed that there was nothing in the intellect that did not first exist in the senses and the first of the childs organs that begin to function are the senses. During the forst thress years of a child life all the impressions received from the childs environment are stored in the unconscious memeory‚ The “mneme” A young child receives and perceives everything‚ both positive and negative
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formative years‚ which are between 2 ½ to 6‚ is like a receiver‚ he is open to all kind of transmitters. In “The Absorbent Mind”‚ Dr Maria Montessori wrote: “There are many who believe that the most important period of life is not the age of university studies‚ but the first one‚ the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself‚ his greatest implement is being formed” (Montessori‚ The Absorbent Mind‚ 1995‚ p. 22). At no other age has the child greater need
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