Book

The discovery of the child / Maria Montessori ; translated by M. Joseph Costelloe.

Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952 (Author).

Summary:

Montessori went beyond the conventions of the day to seek a new way of knowing and loving a child. In this book she describes the nature of the child and her method of teaching by working more fully with the child's urge to learn.

Record details

ISBN: 0345336569
ISBN: 9780345336569
ISBN: 0345293908
ISBN: 9780345293909
Physical Description: x, 339 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Edition: 1st Ballatine Books ed.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine, 1972, ©1967.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Italian into English.

Formatted Contents Note:

On the application of science to the school -- The history of methods -- The teaching methods employed in children's houses -- Nature in education -- Education in movement -- The material for development -- The exercises -- Visual and auditory distinctions -- Generalizations on the training of the senses -- The teacher -- The technique of the lessons -- Observations on prejudices -- Elevation -- Written language -- The mechanism of writing -- Reading -- Speech -- Teaching how and count and an introduction to arithmetic -- Further developments in arithmetic -- Drawing and representative art -- Introduction to music -- Religious education -- Discipline in a children's house -- Conclusions and impressions -- The triumphal chariot -- Grades and sequence in the presentation of the material.