The Montessori Method - Couverture rigide

Montessori, Maria

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1497800501 ISBN 13 : 9781497800502

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

The Montessori Method is a book written by Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator, in 1912. The book is considered a classic in the field of education and offers a detailed description of the Montessori method, a child-centered educational approach that emphasizes independence, freedom within limits, and the development of the whole child. The book is divided into several sections, each of which explores a different aspect of the Montessori method. The first section provides an overview of the method and its underlying principles, including the importance of observation and the role of the teacher in guiding the child's development. The second section focuses on the materials used in Montessori classrooms, such as the iconic Montessori materials like the pink tower, the knobbed cylinders and the Montessori bead materials. Montessori describes how these materials are designed to promote sensory exploration and help children develop their cognitive and motor skills.The third section of the book discusses the practical application of the Montessori method in the classroom, including how to create a prepared environment that is conducive to learning and how to structure lessons and activities to meet the needs of individual children. The final section of the book explores the broader implications of the Montessori method for society as a whole, including its potential to foster peace and promote social justice. Overall, The Montessori Method is a comprehensive guide to the Montessori educational approach and a must-read for anyone interested in early childhood education, child development, or alternative educational methods.This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

An audience already thoroughly interested awaits this translation of a remarkable book. For years no educational document has been so eagerly expected by so large a public, and not many have better merited general anticipation. That this widespread interest exists is due to the enthusiastic and ingenious articles in McClure's Magazine for May and December, 1911, and January, 1912; but before the first of these articles appeared a number of English and American teachers had given careful study to Dr. Montessori's work, and had found it novel and important. The astonishing welcome accorded to the first popular expositions of the Montessori system may mean much or little for its future in England and America; it is rather the earlier approval of a few trained teachers and professional students that commends it to the educational workers who must ultimately decide upon its value, interpret its technicalities to the country at large, and adapt it to English and American conditions. To them as well as to the general public this brief critical Introduction is addressed. It is wholly within the bounds of safe judgment to call Dr. Montessori's work remarkable, novel, and important. It is remarkable, if for no other reason, because it represents the constructive effort of a woman. We have no other example of an educational system—original at least in its systematic wholeness and in its practical application—worked out and inaugurated by the feminine mind and hand. It is remarkable, also, because it springs from a combination of womanly sympathy and intuition, broad social outlook, scientific training, intensive and long-continued study of educational problems, and, to crown all, varied and unusual experience as a teacher and educational leader. No other woman who has dealt with Dr. Montessori's problem—the education of young children—has brought to it personal resources so richly diverse as hers. These resources, furthermore, she has devoted to her work with an enthusiasm, an absolute abandon, like that of Pestalozzi and Froebel, and she presents her convictions with an apostolic ardour which commands attention. A system which embodies such a capital of human effort could not be unimportant. Then, too, certain aspects of the system are in themselves striking and significant: it adapts to the education of normal children methods and apparatus originally used for deficients; it is based on a radical conception of liberty for the pupil; it entails a highly formal training of separate sensory, motor, and mental capacities; and it leads to rapid, easy, and substantial mastery of the elements of reading, writing, and arithmetic. All this will be apparent to the most casual reader of this book.

Biographie de l'auteur

Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori (1870–1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1497800501
• ISBN 13: 9781497800502
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 386
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible