Center for Learner Agency Research and Action

Please join us for an in-person Montessori Research Symposium at the University of Kansas. Please note the new time and RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gEH4gNJ4

Montessori practitioners and the public are invited to join a distinguished panel of researchers for the Montessori Research Symposium at the University of Kansas.

Greetings! We are pleased to announce that we are offering support for doctoral students who are conducting research in the field of Montessori education to attend the 2nd Annual Doctoral Student Montessori Research Symposium! The Symposium will be held on Friday, November 15 and Saturday November 16, 2024 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence KS. Participants who are selected will receive a full scholarship to attend the retreat to network, share work, and move Montessori research forward. Please circulate widely! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jade Caines Lee, Ph.D. at [email protected] Submit your application at https://lnkd.in/dxjt_AaA.

CLARA director Angela Murray is looking forward to moderating an Association Montessori International of the United States (AMI/USA) free webinar featuring the work of recently hooded Montessori doctors! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gpDQcdPE

CLARA director and journal editor Angela Murray is pleased to share the spring issue of the Journal of Montessori Research now available at https://lnkd.in/grXaKmQZ FROM THE EDITOR: We are celebrating the start of the Journal of Montessori Research’s tenth year and are proud of the 69 articles we have published. The spring 2024 issue includes three fascinating articles on a range of topics from language acquisition, Montessori fidelity, and educational pacifism. This issue also includes the second installment of The Mortarboard Review in which Joel Parham, Jennifer Moss, and Katie Keller Wood review doctoral dissertations completed during 2023 related to antibias and anti-racist (ABAR) educational practices. In the first article, “Maria Montessori and the Mystery of Language Acquisition,” Stephen Newman and Nathan Archer suggest reevaluating Montessori’s work through the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to gain a better understanding of her contributions related to child development and first language acquisition. Jaap de Brouwer, Vivian Morssink-Santing, and Symen van der Zee examine an assessment tool in the “Validation of the Teacher Questionnaire of Montessori Practice for Early Childhood in the Dutch Context.” They argue that it is especially important to develop robust measures of fidelity in the Netherlands because of the country’s history of flexible implementation of Montessori principles coupled with the fact that such measures do not yet exist in the country. The third article is “Educational Pacifism and Montessori Education.” In exploring educational pacifism, Nicholas Parkin argues that the dominance of mass formal schooling systems unjustly harms many students and that Montessorians ought to be educational pacifists, meaning they should “. . . recognize, understand, and reject systematic educational harm and ensure that it does not occur in their own practice.” He concludes that Maria Montessori was an educational pacifist and that Montessori education should be viewed as a nonharmful educational alternative to mass formal schooling. I hope you enjoy the spring 2024 issue. Sincerely, Angela K. Murray, PhD

Join us in celebrating CLARA's very own Dr. Jade Caines Lee who is the recipient of a National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) 2024 Validity and Fairness Research Award. Her proposal, titled?The HBCU Effect: Examining Factors Related to First-Time Bar Passage for HBCU Law School Alumni,?focuses on the effects that graduate institution type (HBCU vs. non-HBCU) has on bar passage rates. The findings may better inform and empower HBCUs and their collaborative partners (e.g., law schools, law firms, and other business/professional entities).? https://lnkd.in/gFuSqauq

CLARA staff organized and hosted the exhibit hall booth for the Montessori Education SIG at #AERA2024.

CLARA and CEOP are representing at #AERA2024! Presenting at the Classroom Observation SIG roundtable on the Measure of Montessori Implementarion.

Proud of CLARA staff member Heather Gerker for continuing to represent at the AMS Montessori Event this past weekend.

Our very own Heather Gerker presenting in Cincinnati today!