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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom. In reading this book, parents and teachers alike will develop a clear understanding of what happens in a Montessori classroom and, more importantly, why it happens and why it works. Lillard explains the scientific basis for Montessori's system and the distinctions between practices in traditional, \"Montessomething,\" and authentic Montessori education. Furthermore, in this new edition, she presents recent studies showing evidence that this alternative to traditional schooling does indeed make a difference. Montessori is indispensable reading for anyone interested in teaching, training, or considering Montessori schooling, in developmental psychology, or in understanding about human learning and education overall.

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870–1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon for Peace, Erica Moretti reframes Montessori's pacifism as the foundation for her educational activism, emphasizing her vision of the classroom as a gateway to reshaping society. Montessori education offers a child-centered learning environment that cultivates students' development as peaceful, curious, and resilient adults opposed to war and invested in societal reform. Using newly discovered primary sources, Moretti examines Montessori's lifelong pacifist work, including her ultimately unsuccessful push for the creation of the White Cross, a humanitarian organization for war-affected children. Moretti shows that Montessori's educational theories and practices would come to define chilren's rights once adopted by influential international organizations, including the United Nations. She uncovers the significance of Montessori's evolving philosophy of peace and early childhood education within broader conversations about internationalism and humanitarianism.

Bringing Montessori to America traces in engrossing detail one of the most fascinating partnerships in the history of American education—that between Maria Montessori and S. S. McClure, from their first meeting in 1910 until their final acrimonious dispute in 1915.   Born on the Adriatic, Montessori first entered the world stage in 1906 as the innovator of a revolutionary teaching method that creates an environment where children learn at their own pace and initiate skills like reading and writing in a spontaneous way. As her school in Rome swiftly attracted attention, curiosity, and followers, Montessori recruited disciples whom she immersed in a rigorous and detailed teacher-training regimen of her own creation.   McClure was an Irish-born media baron of America’s Gilded Age, best known as the founder and publisher of McClure’s Magazine . Against the backdrop of Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose insurgency, the brilliant and mercurial McClure used his flagship publication as a vehicle to advance Progressive Party causes. After meeting in 1910, McClure and Montessori embarked on a five-year collaboration to introduce Montessori’s innovative teaching style in the United States.   Gerald and Patricia Gutek trace the dramatic arc of the partnership between the Italian teacher and American publisher united by a vision of educational change in the United States. After her triumphal lecture tour in 1913, Montessori, secure in her trust of her American partner, gave McClure her power of attorney and returned to Italy. The surge in popularity of Montessori education in America, however, deeply concerned Montessori, who had heretofore exerted total control over her method, apparatus, schools, and teacher training. The American entrepreneurial spirit, along with a desire to disseminate the Montessori Method quickly, led to major conflicts between the Italian educator and American businesspeople, particularly McClure. Feeling betrayed, Montessori ended her relationship with her erstwhile collaborator.   Gutek and Gutek describe the fascinating story of this first wave of Montessori education in the United States, which did not sustain itself during Montessori’s lifetime. It would not be until the 1950s that Montessori education was revived with the successful establishment of Montessori academies throughout the United States.

\"Maria Montessori cared about kids. She was a teacher. She was from Italy. Montessori wanted to make school better. She believed that freedom is the best way for kids to learn.\" (News-O-Matic) Read more about Maria Montessori.

\"Maria Montessori is an amazing role model who is very inspirational to me. I loved going to my Montessori school, where I learned about her.\" (New Moon Girls) Read about the life of Maria Montessori and learned how she created a new way of teaching elementary school children.

\"Maria Montessori: A Biography,\" by Rita Kramer, with a foreword by Anna Freud, is reviewed.

\"Through the centuries, many individuals have created programs, artworks, and styles that are not only distinctive and influential, but have continued to survive long after they have died. On occasion, the personality of the creator is so strong and so forceful that his or her name becomes synonymous with the creation. To their credit, the Italians have produced several such individuals, as the following examples illustrate.\" (Calliope) Read more about these individuals and their creations.

Die Studie stellt das Leben und Wirken von Clara Grunwald und Maria Montessori dar, auf dem besonderen Hintergrund der Entwicklung der Montessori-Bewegung in Berlin der 20er Jahre bis zur Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten 1933 und deren Folgen. Bei dieser Untersuchung wird die Wirkungsweise von Clara Grunwald für die Montessori-Pädagogik in Deutschland, explizit in Berlin der Weimarer Republik verdeutlicht.Hier werden ihre Intention, ihre Einflussnahme und ihr Engagement für die Etablierung der Montessori-Pädagogik und die Entwicklung der Montessori-Bewegung in Berlin beschrieben.Zudem wird der hervortretende Konflikt zwischen Maria Montessori und Clara Grunwald mehrschichtig betrachtet, da verschiedene Faktoren die Entwicklung und Ausbreitung der Montessori-Pädagogik beeinflussten. Der Konflikt zwischen den beiden Frauen zeigt schicksalhafte Auswirkungen auf die Person und das Wirken Clara Grunwalds, sowie auf die Montessori-Bewegung in Berlin. Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten 1933 hat gleichfalls schwerwiegende Auswirkung auf die Arbeit von Clara Grunwald und auf die Montessori-Pädagogik in Deutschland, die den Niedergang der Montessori-Pädagogik zur Folge hat.Vor diesem historischen Hintergrund wird die Entwicklung der Montessori-Pädagogik nach Beendigung des Zweiten Weltkrieges bis in die Gegenwart betrachtet und kurz skizziert.