BACKGROUND Although there is a national curriculum for art education in the UK there are also alternative approaches in the private sector. This paper addresses the issue of the effect of these approaches on children's drawing ability. AIM To compare the drawing ability in three drawing tasks of children in Steiner, Montessori and traditional schools. SAMPLE The participants were 60 school ...

BACKGROUND The agitated behaviours that accompany dementia (e.g. pacing, aggression, calling out) are stressful to both nursing home residents and their carers and are difficult to treat. Behaviours stemming from pain, major depression or psychosis benefit from treatment with analgesics, antidepressants or antipsychotics. In other cases, psychotropic medications have limited efficacy but are us...

Within the United States, there are a variety of early education models and curricula aimed at promoting young children's pre-academic, social, and behavioral skills. This study, using data from the Miami School Readiness Project (MSRP; Winsler et al., 2008, 2012), examined the school readiness gains of low-income Latino (n = 7,045) and Black children (n = 6,700) enrolled in two different types...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kemampuan mengenal konsep bilangan anak dengan menerapkan metode Montessori. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif eksperimen desain one group pretest-posttest design diujikan kepada satu kelas usia 4-5 tahun. Sampel tahun di TK ABA 9 Kranji total 13 anak. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan sebanyak dua kali yaitu kondisi awal sebe...

As will be seen, the aim is to follow the needs of the child and "to provide the best possible conditions for the life forces within the child to find their fulfilment". Different workers may disagree about which forces and which conditions are involved, but as one of the first workers to expound this theme systematically, all workers in Mental Health must be grateful to Dr. Montessori for the ...

The figure of Maria Montessori stands out above most of those who were involved in the New Education movement. Rarely have attempts been made to establish a set of educational precepts, which would have such universal validity as hers, and very few others had such a powerful influence on developments in the world as a whole. The all-embracing nature of her ideas is perhaps all the more astonish...

While a growing body of research reveals the beneficial effects of music on education performance the value of music in educating the young child is not being recognized, particularly in the area of Montessori education. This study was an experimental design using a two-group post-test comparison. A sample of 200 Montessori students aged 3 to 5-years-old were selected and randomly placed in one...