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Explorations<\/h3>\r\n
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  1. Use Montessori\u2019s description of how schools should foster \u201cthe free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born\u201d (para. 7). Is this an accurate statement of your own experience of school, especially grammar school? What do you think Montessori means by \u201cscientific pedagogy?\u201d How would your schools need to change in order to bring them more in line with Montessori\u2019s ideals?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. If you have not experienced a Montessori school, interview a graduate and ask to visit one near where you live and interview a teacher or principal, and visit a classroom. Then write a description comparing and contrasting the Montessori school experience with your own.<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. In critiquing traditional schools, Montessori claims that \u201cthe principle of slavery pervades pedagogy, and, therefore, the same principle pervades the school\u201d (para. 9). This is a very strong statement. She contrasts traditional teaching methods that create \u201can instrument of slavery\u201d to her vision of an improved educational model that promotes a \u201cmovement of social liberation.\u201d What is her evidence? Do you find her analysis convincing? Compare her discussion of slavery to the slavery examples depicted in Plato and Douglass.<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. Montessori created her experimental Casa dei Bambini<\/em> (Children\u2019s House) in one of Rome\u2019s poorest neighborhoods in 1907. Her child-centered Montessori Method has grown significantly and internationally in the more than one hundred years since then. Why are her ideals and methods still relevant?<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. Montessori spends a significant portion of her essay discussing classroom architecture (see especially paras. 9-20), focusing the stationary desks and chairs found in a traditional classroom. What is the problem with this enforced \u201cimmobility\u201d? She claims that one purpose of this arrangement is to \u201crender the child visible in his immobility\u201d (para. 9). This idea is reminiscent of Jeremy Bentham\u2019s description of the Panopticon (later developed at great length by philosopher Michel Foucault). Read Gallagher\u2019s article, \u201cAre Schools Panoptic?\u201d and attempt to apply his analysis to Montessori\u2019s critique of traditional schooling. You can find the article here: http:\/\/ojs.library.queensu.ca\/index.php\/surveillance-and-society\/article\/view\/4155\/4158<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","rendered":"

    Explorations<\/h3>\n
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    1. Use Montessori\u2019s description of how schools should foster \u201cthe free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born\u201d (para. 7). Is this an accurate statement of your own experience of school, especially grammar school? What do you think Montessori means by \u201cscientific pedagogy?\u201d How would your schools need to change in order to bring them more in line with Montessori\u2019s ideals?<\/li>\n
    2. If you have not experienced a Montessori school, interview a graduate and ask to visit one near where you live and interview a teacher or principal, and visit a classroom. Then write a description comparing and contrasting the Montessori school experience with your own.<\/li>\n
    3. In critiquing traditional schools, Montessori claims that \u201cthe principle of slavery pervades pedagogy, and, therefore, the same principle pervades the school\u201d (para. 9). This is a very strong statement. She contrasts traditional teaching methods that create \u201can instrument of slavery\u201d to her vision of an improved educational model that promotes a \u201cmovement of social liberation.\u201d What is her evidence? Do you find her analysis convincing? Compare her discussion of slavery to the slavery examples depicted in Plato and Douglass.<\/li>\n
    4. Montessori created her experimental Casa dei Bambini<\/em> (Children\u2019s House) in one of Rome\u2019s poorest neighborhoods in 1907. Her child-centered Montessori Method has grown significantly and internationally in the more than one hundred years since then. Why are her ideals and methods still relevant?<\/li>\n
    5. Montessori spends a significant portion of her essay discussing classroom architecture (see especially paras. 9-20), focusing the stationary desks and chairs found in a traditional classroom. What is the problem with this enforced \u201cimmobility\u201d? She claims that one purpose of this arrangement is to \u201crender the child visible in his immobility\u201d (para. 9). This idea is reminiscent of Jeremy Bentham\u2019s description of the Panopticon (later developed at great length by philosopher Michel Foucault). Read Gallagher\u2019s article, \u201cAre Schools Panoptic?\u201d and attempt to apply his analysis to Montessori\u2019s critique of traditional schooling. You can find the article here: http:\/\/ojs.library.queensu.ca\/index.php\/surveillance-and-society\/article\/view\/4155\/4158<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\t\t\t
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