The Montessori Method The Origins of an Educational Innovation: Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method

by Gutek, Gerald Lee

• ISBN13: 9780742519114
• ISBN10: 0742519112
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation: Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method creates the context in which Maria Montessori developed her philosophy of early childhood educat

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	ix
Introduction: A Biography of Montessori and an Analysis of the Montessori Method	1	(68)
Part I: An Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
A Critical Consideration of the New Pedagogy in Its Relation to Modern Science	69	(12)
History of Methods	81	(12)
Inaugural Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Opening of One of the ``Children's Houses''	93	(14)
Pedagogical Methods Used in the ``Children's Houses''	107	(6)
Discipline	113	(10)
How the Lessons Should Be Given	123	(6)
Exercises of Practical Life	129	(4)
Refection---The Child's Diet	133	(2)
Muscular Education---Gymnastics	135	(8)
Nature in Education---Agricultural Labor: Culture of Plants and Animals	143	(6)
Manual Labor---The Potter's Art and Building	149	(4)
Education of the Senses	153	(8)
Education of the Senses and Illustrations of the Didactic Material: General Sensibility; the Tactile, Thermic, Baric, and Stereognostic Senses	161	(16)
General Notes on the Education of the Senses	177	(4)
Intellectual Education	181	(14)
Methods for the Teaching of Reading and Writing	195	(10)
Description of the Method and Didactic Material Used	205	(22)
Language in Childhood	227	(6)
Teaching of Numeration: Introduction to Arithmetic	233	(10)
Sequence of Exercises	243	(6)
General Review of Discipline	249	(12)
Conclusions and Impressions	261	(6)
Part II: Related Documents
Interpretation of Montessori's Lecture Translated	267	(6)
Anne E. George
Excerpts from The Montessori System Examined	273	(6)
William H. Kilpatrick
Appendix	279	(4)
Bibliography	283	(2)
Index	285	(10)
About the Editor	295