The Awards of $1,000 each are announced at the AMS National Seminar yearly. Awardees will be invited to publish a version of their work in Montessori Life, the CIJE-indexed quarterly of the Society.
Please submit one copy of completed dissertation or thesis to the AMS office at 281 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 by January 1, 1997. Work submitted after this date will be considered for the 1997 awards. Thesis or dissertation must have been accepted at an accredited university at time of submission. Any length or university accepted format is acceptable; English language submissions only at this time.
The 1994 award winners were Ms. Carolyn Doaush, for her St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, Master's Thesis comparing Montessori and California state curricula. Ms. Doaush is currently a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the University of California at Berkley.
Ms. Ginger McKenzie's doctoral thesis from Texas Tech examined leadership models in Montessori education. She is on the faculty of Xavier University in Cincinnati, in the Montessori Teacher Education program and is the current President of the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education.
Ms. Barron is the author of several books, the director of the NYU Montessori teacher education program, the co-director of the CHAMP Montessori program in Harlem, and the school head of West Side Montessori School.
For 1995, there were two awards at the Masters' level. Ms. Cheryl Ursino-Atkins' thesis from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California, was titled "Parents' views on the effectiveness of the elementary Montessori program."
Ms. Jane C. VanBruecken's thesis, "Montessori classrooms and emergent literacy" was done at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
For 1996, the masters' degree award was made to David C. Cipolloni,
whose thesis, "A Comparison of Primary School Performance as a Function
of Preschool Experience" was done as part of his graduate work at Stetson
Univeristy in Florida. "Teacher Accomodation for Indidivual Differnces
in Integrated Montessori Early Childhood Classrooms" was the award winner
in the doctoral category. It was the disserattion of Ann Marie Epstein,
done at the University of Maryland. For more info E-Mail to AMSPaul@aol.com
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