The Montessori method
By: by Maria Montessori
Publisher: Renaissance Classics
Published: 2012
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781481016926
Subjects: Montessori method of education; Preschool Education; Philosophy
Work titles: Metodo della pedagogia scientifica
Description: Presents early twentieth-century Italian teacher Maria Montessori's influential childhood education method, which allows pupils freedom and creativity in their learning.
Notes: Originally published: New York : F.A. Stokes Co., 1912.
Table of contents: 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.