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Direct linkVan Groenou, Meher – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
Maria Montessori arrived in India in 1939 to conduct the first training course on the Asian continent. Thus began Montessori's extended stay in India. She wrote and published "The Absorbent Mind," crystallized the Elementary curriculum, and developed the theory of "Planes of Development" as the basis for the curriculum from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational History
Hoencamp, Marloes; Exalto, John; de Muynck, Abraham; de Ruyter, Doret – History of Education, 2022
Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm (1875-1951) was one of the founders of Dutch educational science and a key figure in the New Education movement in the Netherlands. This article has three aims: first, to depict Kohnstamm as an insightful example in the process of sharing and adopting ideas around New Education and the implementation of these ideas in the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Montessori Method, Decision Making
Whitescarver, Keith; Cossentino, Jacqueline – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Montessori education has flourished as an alternative approach to schooling for a hundred years. In the century since the first Montessori school opened in the slums of Rome, the movement has undergone sustained growth while simultaneously enduring efforts to modify the method in order to reach a wider audience. Despite…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Educational Change, Slums, Biographies
