The Montessori method
Subtitle: the origins of an educational innovation : including an abridged and annotated edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori method
By: Maria Montessori ; edited by Gerald Lee Gutek
Contributors: Gutek, Gerald Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Montessori method of education; Philosophy; Preschool Education; Biography; Women educators
Work titles: Metodo della pedagogia scientifica
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: A biography of Montessori and an analysis of the Montessori method; title: I: An annotated edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori method; title: 1. A critical consideration of the new pedagogy in its relation to modern science; title: 2. History of methods; title: 3. Inaugural address delivered on the occasion of the opening of one of the "children's houses"; title: 4. Pedagogical methods used in the "children's houses"; title: 5. Discipline; title: 6. How the lessons should be given; title: 7. Exercises of practical life; title: 8. Reflection; title: the child's diet; title: 9. Muscular education; title: gymnastics; title: 10. Nature in education; title: agricultural labor: culture of plants and animals; title: 11. Manual labor; title: the potter's art and building; title: 12. Education of the senses.; title: 13. Education of the senses and illustrations of the didactic material: general sensibility; the tactile, thermic, baric, and stereognostic senses; title: 14. General notes on the education of the senses; title: 15. Intellectual education; title: 16. Methods for the teaching of reading and writing; title: 17. Description of the method and didactic material used; title: 18. Language in childhood; title: 19. Teaching of numeration: introduction to arithmetic; title: 20. Sequence of exercises; title: 21. General review of discipline; title: 22. Conclusions and impressions; title: II: Related documents; title: 23. Interpretation of Montessori's lecture translated by Anne E. George; title: 24. Excerpts from The Montessori system examined William H. Kilpatrick.