Word: montessori
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Informal education, which still seems radical to regulation-loving school administrators, derives from insights into learning that go back to Montessori and Dewey, and have since been confirmed by psychologists like Jean Piaget. For older children as well as preschoolers, says Mrs. Weber, "the most intense form of learning is the child's learning through play and the experiences he seeks out for himself...
While Cory finds these sources helpful, he also keeps up on the thinking of other scholars: Son David, 5, a Montessori school pupil, and Daughter Caroline, 7, who each morning gets a ride on the back of Daddy's bicycle to Manhattan's racially integrated Public School 9. "Their kid's-eye insight," says Cory, "can be as valuable as any expert's opinion...
...Malik Hakim was arrested by the FBI on a federal parole violation warrant. Hakim had recently applied for a passport so that he could travel to Europe to study the Montessori system of education. Hakim had not been overly-enthusiastic about leaving Boston and the Foundation, but felt that the trip might produce some valuable knowledge...
...children get any work accomplished if they do nothing but play all day?" one U.S. principal asked. Silberman points out that well beyond first grade "play is a child's work"-an insight that draws, as does the entire informal approach, on the experience of Italian Educator Maria Montessori and the research of Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget. Though academic structure is outwardly minimal in such informal schooling, says Silberman, it becomes apparent to children as they explore the books and materials that knowing adults select for them. Moreover, teachers freed from lockstep group discipline can observe individual children more...
...forest of Aveyron in 1801, a savage animal was captured. It was a boy of about twelve, origins unknown, with vulpine instincts and capacities. This Mowgli-like creature became renowned in his own time; a hundred years later, he was an object of fascination for Educator Maria Montessori. Now the cycle begins anew with this work by Francois Truffaut. At first the mud-caked curiosity (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is treated as a zoo animal, visited by Parisians who applaud his pathetic growls and tantrums. Mercifully -or so it seems-the child is taken in tow by Dr. Itard (played...