The Montessori Method. Maria Montessori Montessori

      

      THE MONTESSORI METHOD

      By MARIA MONTESSORI

      The Montessori Method

      By Maria Montessori

      Translated by Anne E. George

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7184-2

      eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-7185-9

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      Cover Image: a detail of “The classroom of a mixed [Montessori] kindergarten with a group portrait”, c. 1910, (b/w photo) / Spaarnestad Photo / Bridgeman Images.

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      CONTENTS

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

       INTRODUCTION

       THE MONTESSORI METHOD

      CHAPTER I. A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE NEW PEDAGOGY IN ITS RELATION TO MODERN SCIENCE

      CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF METHODS

      CHAPTER III. INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF ONE OF THE “CHILDREN’S HOUSES”

      CHAPTER IV. PEDAGOGICAL METHODS USED IN THE “CHILDREN’S HOUSES”

      CHAPTER V. DISCIPLINE

      CHAPTER VI. HOW THE LESSONS SHOULD BE GIVEN

      CHAPTER VII. EXERCISES OF PRACTICAL LIFE

      CHAPTER VIII. REFECTION—THE CHILD’S DIET

      CHAPTER IX. MUSCULAR EDUCATION—GYMNASTICS

      CHAPTER X. NATURE IN EDUCATION—AGRICULTURAL LABOUR: CULTURE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS

      CHAPTER XI. MANUAL LABOUR—THE POTTER’S ART AND BUILDING

      CHAPTER XII. EDUCATION OF THE SENSES

      CHAPTER XIII. EDUCATION OF THE SENSES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIDACTIC MATERIAL: GENERAL SENSIBILITY; THE TACTILE, THERMIC, BARIC, AND STEREOGNOSTIC SENSES

      CHAPTER XIV. GENERAL NOTES ON THE EDUCATION OF THE SENSES

      CHAPTER XV. INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION

      CHAPTER XVI. METHODS FOR THE TEACHING OF READING AND WRITING

      CHAPTER XVII. DESCRIPTION OF THE METHOD AND DIDACTIC MATERIAL USED

      CHAPTER XVIII. LANGUAGE IN CHILDHOOD

      CHAPTER XIX. TEACHING OF NUMERATION; INTRODUCTION TO ARITHMETIC

      CHAPTER XX. SEQUENCE OF EXERCISES

      CHAPTER XXI. GENERAL REVIEW OF DISCIPLINE

      CHAPTER XXII. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPRESSIONS

      THE

      MONTESSORI METHOD

      SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY AS APPLIED TO CHILD

      EDUCATION IN “THE CHILDREN’S HOUSES”

      WITH ADDITIONS AND REVISIONS

      BY THE AUTHOR

      BY

      MARIA MONTESSORI

      TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY

      ANNE E. GEORGE

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

      PROFESSOR HENRY W. HOLMES

      OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

      WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

      DR. MONTESSORI GIVING A LESSON IN TOUCHING GEOMETRICAL INSETS.

      I place at the beginning of this volume, now appearing in the United States, her fatherland, the dear name of

      ALICE HALLGARTEN

      of New York, who by her marriage to Baron Leopold Franchetti became by choice our compatriot.

      Ever a firm believer in the principles underlying the Case dei Bambini, she, with her husband, forwarded the publication of this book in Italy, and, throughout the last years of her short life, greatly desired the English translation which should introduce to the land of her birth the work so near her heart.

      To her memory I dedicate this book, whose pages, like an ever-living flower, perpetuate the recollection of her beneficence.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to Mrs. Guy Baring, of London, for the loan of her manuscript translation of “Pedagogia Scientifica”; to Mrs. John R. Fisher (Dorothy Canfield) for translating a large part of the new work written by Dr. Montessori for the American Edition; and to The House of Childhood, Inc., New York, for use of the illustrations of the didactic apparatus. Dr. Montessori’s patent rights in the apparatus are controlled, for the United States and Canada, by The House of Childhood, Inc.

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      PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

      In February, 1911, Professor Henry W. Holmes, of the Division of Education of Harvard University, did me the honour to suggest that an English translation be made of my Italian volume, “Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all’ educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini.” This suggestion