The Montessori method : the origins of an educational innovation : including an abridged and annotated edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori method /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952
Other Authors: Gutek, Gerald Lee
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2004]
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Online Access:Table of contents
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.