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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ s ɔːr i / MON-tiss-OR-ee, Italian: [maˈriːa montesˈsɔːri]; 31 August 1870 – 6 May 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education (the Montessori method) and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at ...
The Discovery of the Child is an essay by Italian pedagogist Maria Montessori (1870-1952), published in Italy in 1950, about the origin and features of the Montessori method, a teaching method invented by her and known worldwide.
Maria Montessori (French: La Nouvelle Femme, lit. 'The New Woman') is a 2023 French–Italian historical drama film written and directed by Léa Todorov. The film stars Jasmine Trinca as Maria Montessori and Leïla Bekhti as a fictionalised woman who seeks her help. [3] [4] It is the director's second film.
Ernest Wood and Hilda Wood, who had worked with Maria Montessori in India, started the School of the Woods in 1962 as well, in Houston, Texas. The first Montessori school in the Southeast, Springmont, was founded in 1963 in Atlanta. Also in 1963, the Cambridge Montessori School was founded in the basement of St. Bartholomew Church in Cambridge ...
Cornish worked as a Montessori educator and acted as an interpreter for Maria Montessori for many of her English courses. [4] Cornish was a member of the Aëthnic Union, along with Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, Thomas Baty and Jessey Wade. In 1916, they co-founded the feminist journal Urania and she contributed as editor. [5]
Giovanna Alatri in Maria Montessori e Maria Maraini Guerrieri Gonzaga recounts how both Alice and Leopoldo were deeply interested in new methods of experimental learning proposed by Montessori. As such, they offered to fund Montessori's book which was published at their expense and presented in the Villa Montesca in Umbria to a group of ...
In 1911, Canfield Fisher visited the "children's houses" in Rome established by Maria Montessori. Much impressed, she joined the cause to bring the method back to the U.S., translating Montessori's book into English and writing five of her own: three nonfiction and two novels. [1] Another concern of Canfield Fisher was her war work.
Adriana de Vecchi was a Portuguese cellist, Montessori-trained educator and founder of a music school for children in Lisbon. Adriana de Vecchi was born in Viana do Castelo in the north of Portugal on 14 September 1896, to a Portuguese father and an Italian mother. The family moved to Italy when she was two years old, and she received her ...