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Teaching Methods: Montessori urged to age 11
The Montessori system is better suited to the way children develop than traditional teaching methods, claims a leading American psychologist.
Angeline Lillard, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, praised Montessori methods when speaking at the centenary conference of the Maria Montessori Institute this month. Professor Lillard told Nursery World that learning through embodied cognition, with children physically performing tasks, as opposed to having lessons dictated to them by a teacher, should be extended to older children. 'Embodied cognition is the idea that our thinking is tied to our bodies,' she said. 'When under-twos develop, they pick up knowledge through action, but Maria Montessori carried it...
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