The Empowered Human-Being. Self-Authoring Personality Characteristics of Graduates of Montessori Classes. A Research Report Cover Image

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The Empowered Human-Being. Self-Authoring Personality Characteristics of Graduates of Montessori Classes. A Research Report

Author(s): Beata Bednarczuk
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Preschool education, School education, Educational Psychology
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: pedagogy of Maria Montessori; graduates of Montessori classes; author’s personality; the structure of the author’s personality

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a study on the level of self-authorizing personality development conducted in 2013-2016 within a group of 69 adolescents, alumni of a Montessori school in Lublin then aged 16-21. The method for collecting empirical data was a POA questionnaire designed by K. Obuchowski, measuring 3 main dimensions of personality: subjectivity, being a person and individual valuation standards. The results proved that almost all of the graduates of Montessori classes had developed self-authoring characteristics at an optimum level. The average results of the three main dimensions of the author’s personality: subjectivity, being a person and taking an attitude are significantly higher than the theoretical average of the scale, which allows the determination of a high level of all areas of authorial personality and the co-occurrence of the aforementioned properties. The obtained values in the range of 14 differential categories of the author’s personality are significantly higher from the theoretical average of the scale and inform about the high level of all personality characteristics. There was no difference in the personality profile due to the sex of the graduates. According to Obuchowski’s observations, the respondents realize their needs and are able to distance themselves from them, develop themselves, guide the sense of their existence, positively assess themselves, their goals and the world around them. The ability of the subjects to generate a set of reasons that underlie the strongest subjective standard of valence (attitude) means not only the mastering and dominance of abstract operations, which condition the conscious creation of private knowledge, become independent of the control of a specific experience, create the opportunity for effective long-distance operation and enables them to make responsible choices.

  • Issue Year: 13/2018
  • Issue No: 1 (47)
  • Page Range: 105-120
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish