Impact of Montessori Education on Child's Learning and Development

This research report analyzes the impact of Montessori education system on the learning and development process of children. It explores the concept of Montessori education, evaluates its influence on child's capability and performance, analyzes challenges faced in using the system, and recommends measures for improvement.

RESEARCH REPORT

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aims and objectives....................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................4
ACCOUNT OF INVESTIGATION................................................................................................5
FINDINGS.......................................................................................................................................5
DISCUSSION................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................13
Questionnaire............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Aims and objectives
Montessori education system is a type of method of education which is based on self-
direction activities and hand on leaning along with collaborative play (Marshall, 2017). In the
classroom which uses the Montessori education system makes a very creative choice for the
development and learning of the child in innovative and creative manner. This includes the use
of creative ideas by highly trained teacher offer the different activities which are guide to
children in growing and developing.
Thus, the present research will analyse the impact of the Montessori education system on
the learning and development process of the child. Also, the research will undertake all the steps
relating to the formulation of aims and objectives and then the review and analysis of different
types of techniques of research which will assist the companies in managing the whole process
of research. Also, the analysis of data and then interpreting and concluding it for reaching to
some end results.
Aim
“To investigate the impact of Montessori education over the performance of children.”
Objectives
 To understand the concept of Montessori education system.
 To evaluate the influence which the Montessori education system has upon the capability
and performance of the child.
 To analyse the challenges being faced by people in using the Montessori education
system.
 To recommend some measures to the people who are using the Montessori education for
educating the children.
Research question
1. What is the concept of Montessori education?
2. What is the influence of using the Montessori education on the working and performance
of child?
3. What are the challenges being encountered at time of using Montessori education
system?

Rationale
The main criterion behind the selection of the selection of the topic of Montessori education
system is that this is the latest method of educating the child. Thus, it is very essential for the
people to have proper and enough knowledge of the different impact which the system can have
over the learning of the child. Also, another major reason is the personal and academic interest of
the researcher within the research topic relating to Montessori education system.
LITERATURE REVIEW
As per the views of Gutek and Gutek, (2016) Montessori education system is a system
which was developed by Dr. Maria Montessori who discovered that the experiential learning a
good type of education which can be provided to the child. Also, this type of learning provides a
deeper understanding and increases the interest of the learner in the studies and other related
learning. These classes ar secular in nature and are integrated into a faith based program. Each
and every stage and materials used in the Montessori education system assist in the growth and
development of the child to a great extent and includes the overall development of the child.
Thus, this is very helpful for the learner in getting more good and important information.
In against of this Lillard and McHugh, (2019) argues that the major impact of the
Montessori education system is the increase in the intrinsic motivation of the child. This is
majorly because of the reason that the children and people who learn through the system of
Montessori education system to develop the innate desire to involve in the activity of enjoyment
along with better learning and more advance learning. This increases the satisfaction of the
learner as well as they are able to learn in more innovative and creative manner and this will
increase the learning capacity of the child.
In contrast to this Kahn (2016) articulates that the major challenge for the installation of
this system of education is that it is very expensive style of education. This is majorly because of
the reason that if a child wants to learn from this type of education type then they have to pay
high fees to the tutors. Another major challenge is that there more independence may sometimes
become a problem in the learning phase of the child. This is majorly because of the fact that with
help of this method the learner may think that they have learnt more and they have more
experience than the education provider.

ACCOUNT OF INVESTIGATION
The research type selected for the study of the research over the impact of the Montessori
education system is the qualitative research type. This method is being selected because of the
fact that this will help the researcher in managing the research in more effective manner (Lillard,
2018). Also in addition to this the research approach being selected is the inductive approach as
this mainly focuses on the formulation of aims and objectives and then attaining those aim and
objective. The philosophy of research being used is the interpretivism as this is more suitable for
the qualitative research. Also, the samples have been taken of the 20 teacher that is the
questionnaire will be given to 20 respondents and the research data will be collected from them.
This will also include the primary and secondary data for the collection of sources. Also, in the
end the thematic analysis was used for the analysing of the data collected and to reach to some
conclusion.
FINDINGS
Theme 1: Strongly agreed that the awareness of concept of Montessori education system is
present.
Particular Respondent % of Respondent
Strongly agreed 10 50
Agreed 2 10
Neutral 2 10
Disagreed 2 10
Strongly
disagreed 4 20
Total 20 100

Interpretation: from the above analysis and evaluation of the above data it is clear that the
majority of the participant states that they are aware of the concept of Montessori education
system. This is strongly agreed upon by 50 % of the participant that they know the concept and
understanding of the research topic. But in against of this the remaining respondent does not
have any understanding relating to the concept of Montessori education system (MONTESSORI,
2017).
Theme 2: All of the above is included in Montessori education system.
Particular Respondent % of Respondent
Creative learning 3 15
Social interaction and
development 3 15
Experiential learning 2 10
All of the above 12 60
Total 20 100

Interpretation: with the help of the analysis and evalaution of the above data it is clear that there
are many different things which are included in the Montessori education system. As agreed by
60 % of the participant the all of the above are included in the whole system. This all of the
above includes experiential learning, creative learning and social development and interaction.
However some of the participant agrees to only creative learning and some with experiential
learning and rest with social interaction and development (Livstrom, Szostkowski and Roehrig,
2019).
Theme 3: Positive is the impact of use of the Montessori education system in developing child.
Particular Respondent % of Respondent
Positive 15 75
Negative 5 25
No impact 0 0
Total 20 100

Interpretation: as per the analysis and evaluation of the data it is clear that the impact of the
Montessori education system is positive over the performance and learning of the child. This is
majorly because of the reason that this is agreed by 75 % of population that when the teacher
uses this method then this result in more good and effective learning. But in against of this some
of the participant states that this has negative impact and some states that this has no impact over
working and performance of learners.
Theme 4: All of the above is the major impact of the Montessori education system on the
personality and performance of child.
Particular Respondent % of Respondent
Increases personality 2 10
Increase motivation 2 10
Multi- age learning
environment 2 10
All of the above 14 70
Total 20 100

Interpretation: with the help of the above information and facts and figures it is clear that the
imapct of the Montessori education system is all of the above. This all of the above is selected by
70 % of the population and this includes impact like increase in personality, multi- age learning
environment and increase in motivation. However, some of the participant agrees to increase in
personality individually and some agrees to increase in motivation and some multi- age learning
environment.
Theme 5: All the children are not same in adaption power is the major challenge in using the
Montessori education system.
Particular Respondent % of Respondent
More expensive 2 10
Minimize important of friendship 2 10
All the children are not same in adaption
power 12 60
All of the above 4 20
Total 20 100

Interpretation: with the analysis of the facts and figures and information relating to the
challenges involved at time of implementing the Montessori education system is all the children
are not same in adaption power. This is agreed by 60 % of participant as it is true that not every
person is same in the adapting power and it is not possible that how fast one child has learned the
other will also learn (Jones, 2017). However, rest of the participant either states that all of the
above is a challenge and some states that minimizing of the friendship or more expensive is the
challenge of effectively using the Montessori education system.
Theme 6: Some of the recommendation for the ways of improving the Montessori education
system.
Interpretation: the most improtant recommedation suggested by some of the participant is that
the trainer or the teacher must first evaluate the capabiltiy of the learner and then in accordance
to it try to make the child or student learn all the different aspect of educaiton .
DISCUSSION
From the above all finding it can be seen that the Montessori education system is very
useful and helpful in making the learner learn in more creative and good manner. The
experiential learning will help the learner in retaining the things more clearly and in much easier
manner (Isaacs, 2018). With the help of the Montessori education system it will be much easier
for the trainer to give more importance on creative and innovative teaching styles which will
motivate the learner to learn all the things and concept in fast and effective manner. Also, this
method is very much useful for the long term learning as this will assist the trainer in managing

the techniques through which they will make the learner learn all the new concept and things in
effective and efficient manner. But as every good thing has some or the other negative aspect
attached to the topic, in the same manner Montessori education system has some negative aspect.
The major negative aspect is that this is very expensive method being used by the parent to make
their child learn all the different things. Also, the other major drawback of this system is that this
mainly focuses on the fact that all the people are same in perception and learning capacity. But in
actual this is not at all true and correct. This is so as every person is different from one another in
all aspect whether be it learning capability, thinking or any other thing (Kirkham and Kidd,
2017).
CONCLUSION
In the end it is concluded that the whole research mainly focused over the impact of
Montessori education system which it has on the children ability and thinking. From the above
discussion it is clear that the impact of use of Montessori education system is positive over the
working and performance of the child. This is majorly due to the fact that this includes the
creative learning, experiential learning and practical knwoeldge which make the learning more
strong and accurate. Thus, the use of Montessori education system in the learning and
development process of children is very helpful and this has been proved in the current research.
This is so as the impact of Montessori education system on the learning of child is positive and it
includes increase in personality and motivation level along with development of multi- age
environment for learning and personal development.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Gutek, G.L. and Gutek, P.A., 2016. Bringing Montessori to America: SS McClure, Maria
Montessori, and the campaign to publicize Montessori education. University of
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Isaacs, B., 2018. Understanding the Montessori approach: Early years education in practice.
Routledge.
Jones, S.J., 2017. Technology in the Montessori Classroom: Teachers' Beliefs and Technology
Use. Journal of Montessori Research. 3(1). pp.16-29.
Kahn, D., 2016. Global Science and Social Systems: The Essentials of Montessori Education and
Peace Frameworks. NAMTA Journal. 41(2). pp.37-61.
Kirkham, J.A. and Kidd, E., 2017. The effect of Steiner, Montessori, and national curriculum
education upon children's pretence and creativity. The Journal of Creative
Behavior. 51(1). pp.20-34.
Lillard, A.S. and McHugh, V., 2019. Authentic Montessori: The Dotteressa’s View at the End of
Her Life Part II. Journal of Montessori Research. 5(1). pp.19-34.
Lillard, A.S., 2018. Rethinking education: Montessori’s approach. Current Directions in
Psychological Science. 27(6). pp.395-400.
Livstrom, I.C., Szostkowski, A.H. and Roehrig, G.H., 2019. Integrated STEM in practice:
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Marshall, C., 2017. Montessori education: a review of the evidence base. npj Science of
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APPENDIX
Questionnaire
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Q1. Are you aware of concept of Montessori education system?
 Strongly agreed
 Agreed
 Neutral
 Disagreed
 Strongly disagreed
Q2. What is referred to as Montessori education system?
 Creative learning
 Social interaction and development
 Experiential learning
 All of the above
Q3. What is the impact of Montessori education system on the development of child?
 Positive
 Negative
 No impact
Q4. What is the impact of Montessori education system on the child and their performance?
 Increases personality
 Increase motivation
 Multi- age learning environment
 All of the above
Q5. What are the major challenges for the teachers in managing learning with help of Montessori
education system?
 More expensive
 Minimize important of friendship
 All the children are not same in adaption power

 All of the above
Q6. What are some of the recommendation for improving the use of Montessori education
system?