The Montessori method : the origins of an educational innovation : including an abridged and annotated edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori method /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.