Perceiving, labelling and knowing: Mediating educational meanings through multimodal dialogue in Montessori early years classrooms

Title
Perceiving, labelling and knowing: Mediating educational meanings through multimodal dialogue in Montessori early years classrooms
Publication Date
2023
Author(s)
Feez, Susan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-2640
Email: sfeez@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sfeez
Editor
Editor(s): Anne Thwaite, Alyson Simpson, and Pauline Jones
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Routledge Research in Education
DOI
10.4324/9781003296744-5
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/54786
Abstract

This chapter reports on a study that investigated how a three-stage multimodal dialogic pedagogy first described by Montessori in 1909 is applied in present day high-fidelity Montessori classrooms. This three-part lesson is a multimodal dialogic routine through which young children learn to perceive and label phenomena in ways that lead them incrementally into the domains of educational knowledge. The study comprised analysis of recordings of two qualified and experienced Montessori teachers, one a preschool teacher and one a teacher of a multigrade (Years, 1, 2, 3) class, both of whom apply this pedagogy in a suburban Montessori school in Australia. The analysis compares the application of this century old approach to 21st century understandings of dialogic pedagogy and provides insights into how teachers apply and adapt the original lesson blueprint in 21st century Montessori settings.

Link
Citation
Dialogic Pedagogy: Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University, p. 35-51
ISBN
9781003296744
9781032284095
9781032284101
9781000876963
1000876969
Start page
35
End page
51

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