{"title":"Montessori Method and Universal Design for Learning: two methodologies in conjunction for inclusive early childhood education","authors":"N. Rosati","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12194","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this study is to examine the features of two methods, the Montessori Method and the method based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning, in order to highlight the common characteristics of both and their possible application in inclusive early childhood education. The curriculum represents the formative path for a child’s learning from the perspective of didactical content and educational organization. A curriculum becomes inclusive when all children’s needs are addressed, not only as a group, but also as individual learners. Both the Montessori Method and Universal Design for Learning respect the unique characteristics, learning preferences and true potential of each individual child.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"380 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131692277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pedagogy of Nature according to Maria Montessori","authors":"F. Bertolino, M. Filippa","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12192","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to examine the multiple concepts of nature expressed in the writings of Maria Montessori, in relation to children’s relationship with nature and salient educational practices. We analyze the multiple meanings that Montessori herself attributed to the term nature”, going on to explore the role of nature in her child pedagogy, as well as her thoughts on caring for nature, in keeping both gardens and animals, and on nature as the ideal setting for sensory education. We ultimately draw together a Montessorian Pedagogy of Nature that underscores the importance of child-nature interaction during the early stages of development. \u0000The study was conducted under the PRIN 2019-2021 program, as part of a leading research national project entitled “Maria Montessori from the past to the present”.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"60 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134033287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recensione di: Gabriella Seveso, L' educazione antica e il confronto con l'altro. Supplici, esuli, ospiti, nemici in alcuni testi della cultura greca antica, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2018","authors":"D. Forni","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13269","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129000616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maria Montessori between Medicine and Pedagogy. Roots, actuality and educational perspectives","authors":"A. Bobbio","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12161","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the thinking of Maria Montessori in relation to the contribution of other branches of educational science to the epistemological status of pedagogy. Specifically, it situates the interconnections between Montessori’s approach and medicine (primarily auxology and child neuropsychiatry) understood as a Naturwissenschaften, as well as the practical implications of this interrelatedness, within a heuristic framework that extends beyond the field of special education. Analysis of Montessori’s scientific output around the turn of the twentieth century is followed by a proposed outline of its present-day relevance, in terms of promising avenues of inquiry informed by Montessori’s initial ideas and educational work and recent neuropsychological research.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129219915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Follow a rule of life». Classroom management and positive discipline in an Apulian Children’s House","authors":"Valeria Rossini","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12187","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to compare Montessori’s perspective of the classroom as community of self-regulated learners to the current research on classroom management, highlighting the importance of the teacher’ attitude in promoting an inclusive and cooperative school setting. The methodology used is a semi-structured interview administered to a Montessori teacher who works in an Apulian Children’s house. The data were collected in order to capture the teacher’s opinion about the topicality of Montessori’s idea of discipline and classroom management in early childhood education.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123713486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maria Montessori’s pedagogy and small schools. The Montessori educational method within the multi-classes","authors":"R. Capobianco","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12193","url":null,"abstract":"The pedagogical thought of Maria Montessori supports the multi-class as it is able to respect and care for the natural interests of children. From a series of interviews with the teachers of the multi-classes of some public schools in the upper Caserta area, it emerged how Montessori pedagogy offers valid and effective suggestions for teaching in the multi-classes. In particular, didactic continuity, heterogeneity, the teacher-director and the learner-actor, time management, reciprocal teaching represent the salient points of the Method embodied in the multi-classes.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131555062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maria Montessori’s thought and work between past and present","authors":"Tiziana Pironi, M. Gallerani","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13469","url":null,"abstract":"Tiziana Pironi and Manuela Gallerani begin the Special Issue with introductions to the articles that follow. Pironi considers the relationship between nature and culture in the Montessori approach that developed between the 19th and 20th centuries. She highlights how it distanced itself from positivistic determinism, and analyzes the innovative results of Montessori theory and practice in schools, which have significantly impacted today’s approaches in the educational and neuroscientific fields. Gallerani notes how Maria Montessori’s work was met with a good deal of resistance and criticism during the post-WWI and post-WWII years from Italian academics who tended to interpret her innovative educational concept rather simplistically, like a mere teaching system endowed with a certain degree of effectiveness. However, the criticism did not prevent the spread of the Montessori approach in many other countries, where it was appreciated and leveraged for its effectiveness and modernity. As a matter of fact, its key principles can still be found today, revised and applied in such new methods as Universal Design for Learning and Embodied Education.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125136741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review of: Isabella Loiodice, Pedagogia. Il sapere/agire della formazione, per tutti e per tutta la vita, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2019","authors":"M. Simone","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/13422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126663849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computational thinking in Montessori primary school","authors":"Stefano Scippo, Fabio Ardolino","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12163","url":null,"abstract":"Here, we contribute to the debate on the relationship between Montessori’s pedagogy and new technologies. In this longitudinal study we used a mixed methodological approach, relying on structured evidence, field observations and notes. We show how in children, following the use of technological material aimed at developing computational thinking, in the five years of primary school in a Montessori class in Grottaferrata (RM), creativity and a sense of community have increased. The sense of community has consistently remained at a good level. The pervasiveness due to the error at a low level. Our evidence indicate how technological materials must respect the typical characteristics of Montessori development material to be integrated in school job: freedom of choice, error control, aesthetic attractiveness, autonomy of use, manual interactivity, possibility of collaborating with peers, repetition of the exercise, quantity limits are essential characteristics.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129511934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La ricezione di Maria Montessori da parte di Giuseppe Lombardo-Radice e degli intellettuali idealisti","authors":"A. Lupi","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1970-2221/12320","url":null,"abstract":"The Italian historiographical tradition on the reception of Maria Montessori has highlighted the widespread misunderstanding that she faced in Italy, often accompanied by prejudicial devaluation, if not by actual personal attacks. Within this critical panorama, stronger resistance was exhibited by Catholics and Neo-Kantians than by Idealists, and in particular Gentile and Lombardo-Radice showed deep appreciation for Montessori, offering her remarks that were rather interesting from a pedagogical standpoint – and are still to be considered thoroughly if we wish to approach her method critically. Furthermore, Lombardo-Radice also brought into the Italian debate a series of international criticisms that had the same tone and content as those addressed to her by the intellectuals involved in the new school movement, as evidenced by an analysis of the articles that Ferriere published in the magazine Pour l’Ere Nouvelleduring the 1920s. By doing so Lombardo-Radice confirmed his divergence from Gentile and his proximity to the progressive school movement.","PeriodicalId":366273,"journal":{"name":"Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125015124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}