03/09/2022
The researchers found that children who had been educated in Montessori schools tended to have a more “flexible” semantic network structure. In other words, Montessori-educated children tended to exhibit more connections and shorter paths between animal concepts compared to children who received traditional education. Montessori-educated children also had higher scores on the tests of creative thinking.
Montessori students exhibit a more richly connected semantic memory network The type of education a child receives appears to influence how they represent knowledge in long-term memory, according to a new study published in the journal Science of Learning. The findings indicate that Montessori students tend to have a more richly connected network of semantic memories. ...