The Montessori method

Main Author: Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952.
Other Authors: George, Anne E (tr.), Hunt, Joseph McVicker, 1906-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: [Illinois] BN Publishing, c2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A critical consideration of the new pedagogy in its relation to modern science
  • History of methods
  • Inaugural address delivered on the occasion of the opening of one of the "children's houses"
  • Pedagogical methods used in the "children's houses"
  • Discipline
  • How the lesson should be given
  • Exercises of practical life
  • Refection-the child's diet
  • Muscular education-gymnastics
  • Nature in education-agricultural labour: culture of plants and animals
  • Manual labour-the potter's art, and building
  • Education of the senses
  • Education of the senses and illustrations of the didactic material: general sensibility: the tactile, thermic, baric and stereognostic senses
  • General notes on the education of the senses
  • Intellectual education
  • Methods for the teaching of reading and writing
  • Description of the method and didactic material used
  • Language in childhood
  • Teaching of numeration: introduction to arithmetic
  • Sequence of exercises
  • General review of discipline
  • Conclusions and impressions.