Abstract
<p class="apa">Montessori the physician and educational philosopher was probably one of the most prominent and famous education theorizer in the field of preschool education. Current research attempts to extract and clarify the major elements of curriculum by reliance on Montessori viewpoints. In this paper first the philosophical basics of preschool education from viewpoint of Montessori is discussed and then the key concepts of education in this theory is analyzed and the descriptive-analytical method is used for this analysis. Finally the fundamental elements of preschool curriculum are examined from its viewpoint. Montessori has considered the main objective of preschool education as development and growth of independence and acquiring individual and social skills and she proposed self-teaching, self-assessment and self-improvement for achieving this goal.</p>
Highlights
The twentieth century is known as the child century in comparison with past eras it is as a golden age for children
In this paper first the philosophical basics of preschool education from viewpoint of Montessori is discussed and the key concepts of education in this theory is analyzed and the descriptive-analytical method is used for this analysis
Montessori has considered the main objective of preschool education as development and growth of independence and acquiring individual and social skills and she proposed self-teaching, self-assessment and self-improvement for achieving this goal
Summary
The twentieth century is known as the child century in comparison with past eras it is as a golden age for children. Montessori believes that child’s growth is due to a vital force inside it that emerges in some periods with special sensitivity and disappears at the same time, she notices that children has special developmental needs and have different need with respect to their normal peers She believed that all children (regardless from their being retarded or normal) have a lot of needs that can be addressed and met in the educational environment. Montessori emphasized on developing independence growth and acquiring individual and social skills in the children as a principle objective of education She considered the education as an aid for detecting inner powers of the child so that the child can have a positive impression toward curiosity, attention and concentration, spontaneity, ability to making decision, and personal discipline and sense of responsibility toward other people (Rumbush, 1999). The objective of Montessori for minor children is to help in spontaneous development of personality in their intellectual, mental and physical dimensions and the trainer’s duty is to understand the natural procedure of child’s growth and provide some conditions through which the child can increase the speed of its development by gradual dominance on its environment (Abbasi, 2003)
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