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Angeline S. Lillard – Grantee Submission, 2021
Montessori education was developed over 100 years ago, and persists as a marginal 'niche reform' of the standard model. Here I discuss two unresolved dichotomies in early childhood education -- the tension between work and play, and between structure and freedom. I explain how Montessori collapses and thereby resolves the dichotomies, and does so…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Student Centered Curriculum
Baroody, Arthur J.; Purpura, David J.; Eiland, Michael D.; Reid, Erin E. – Grantee Submission, 2015
A 9-month training experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of highly and minimally guided discovery interventions targeting the add-1 rule (the sum of a number and one is the next number on the mental number list) and doubles relations (e.g., an everyday example of the double 5 + 5 is five fingers on the left hand and five fingers on the…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Intervention