TY  - BOOK
AU  - Standing,E.M.
TI  - Maria Montessori, her life and work
SN  - 0452279895
AV  - LB775.M8 S78 1998
U1  - 370.92 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Plume
KW  - Montessori, Maria,
KW  - Educators
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Montessori method of education
N1  - Originally published: London : Hollis & Carter, 1957; Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-374) and index; Introduction / Lee Havis -- Author's preface -- Part 1: Life Of Dr Maria Montessori -- 1: Preparation -- 2: Discovery -- 3: Development -- 4: Great and "representative" personality -- Part 2: Psychology Of Development -- 5: Young explorer -- 6: Stages of development -- 7: Sensitive periods in development -- 8: Work of the child, the creation of the adult -- 9: Sensorial foundations of intellectual life -- 10: Deviations and normality -- Part 3: Significance Of Movement In Education -- 11: Visit to Lilliput -- 12: Movement in relation to instinct and reason -- 13: Exercises of practical life -- 14: Movement and mental assimilation -- Part 4: New Relationship -- 15: Fundamental problem in education -- 16: Prepared environment -- 17: Liberty in education- true and false -- 18: Montessori directress -- Part 5: Montessori And Froebel -- 19: Similarities -- Differences -- 21: Montessori, Froebel, and the junior school -- Appendix -- Index
N2  - This work is the biography of the great educator, Maria Montessori, whose revolutionary approach to teaching changed the course of modern education. It is important background reading for parents considering Montessori education for their children, as well as for those training to become Montessori teachers. The first woman to win a degree as a Doctor of Medicine in Italy in 1896, Maria Montessori's mission to improve children's education began in the slums of Rome in 1907, and continued throughout her lifetime. Her insights into the minds of children led her to develop prepared environments and other tools and devices that have come to characterize Montessori education today. Her influence in other countries has been profound and many of her teaching methods have been adopted by educators generally. Part biography and part exposition of her ideas, this book reveals through her letters and personal diaries Maria Montessori's humility and delight in the success of her educational experiments and is an ideal introduction to the principals and practices of the greatest educational innovator of the 20th century
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