The Montessori method : the origins of an educational innovation: including an abridged and annotated edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori method
Provides information on the life and work of Maria Montessori along with an abridged and annotated edition of "The Montessori Method."
Print Book, English, ©2004
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2004
Biography
x, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780742519114, 9780742519121, 0742519112, 0742519120
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A biography of Montessori and an analysis of the Montessori method
I: An annotated edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori method
1. A critical consideration of the new pedagogy in its relation to modern science
2. History of methods
3. Inaugural address delivered on the occasion of the opening of one of the "children's houses"
4. Pedagogical methods used in the "children's houses"
5. Discipline
6. How the lessons should be given
7. Exercises of practical life
8. Reflection
the child's diet
9. Muscular education
gymnastics
10. Nature in education
agricultural labor: culture of plants and animals
11. Manual labor
the potter's art and building
12. Education of the senses
13. Education of the senses and illustrations of the didactic material: general sensibility; the tactile, thermic, baric, and stereognostic senses
14. General notes on the education of the senses
15. Intellectual education
16. Methods for the teaching of reading and writing
17. Description of the method and didactic material used
18. Language in childhood
19. Teaching of numeration: introduction to arithmetic
20. Sequence of exercises
21. General review of discipline
22. Conclusions and impressions
II: Related documents
23. Interpretation of Montessori's lecture translated by Anne E. George
24. Excerpts from The Montessori system examined William H. Kilpatrick