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Hammons, Michelle – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
In this article, the author reflects on a trip to Italy where she visited Dr. Montessori's birthplace in Chiaravalle.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational History
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Van 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
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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
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Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
This article provides photographs, quotes, and a timeline that traces Maria Montessori's legacy.
Descriptors: Biographies, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Early Childhood Education
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Engel, Liba H. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2013
This article explores the history and pedagogy of Janusz Korczak within the context of his contemporary early Twentieth-Century European Innovative Educators which include Maria Montessori, Homer Lane, A.S. Neill, and Anton Semyonovitch Makarenko. The pedagogies of the aforementioned are compared and contrasted within the literature.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Educational History, Teaching Methods
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Lombard, Marjorie Ann – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2009
In this article, the author profiles Dr. Elisabeth Caspari (1899-2002). As a teacher of teachers, Caspari traveled extensively for 50 years, sharing the wisdom she had gleaned from her training under Dr. Maria Montessori in Adyar, India, and from 4 years of frequent association with Montessori and her son, Mario, in Kodaikanal. The threads of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Teacher Educators, Music Teachers, Montessori Method
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Povell, Phyllis – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2007
In this article, the author presents the biography of Maria Montessori, who pioneered early childhood education and introduced a new method of pedagogy. The innovations in education that Montessori introduced were enough to reserve a place for her in the history books. Montessori was ahead of her time in many aspects of her life. The decisions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation, Montessori Method
Gutek, Gerald Lee – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004
An essential resource for all students and scholars of early childhood education, this book offers a rich array of material about Maria Montessori and the Montessori Method. Distinguished education scholar Gerald Gutek begins with an in-depth biography of Montessori, exploring how a determined young woman overcame the obstacles that blocked her…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Early Childhood Education, Biographies, Educational Change
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The bibliography contained in this bulletin was completed in the year 1911-1912. The sources of information used in the compilation of this bibliography were publications received by the United States Bureau of Education. Documents are classified by the following categories: (1) Generalities; (2) History and description; (3) Biography; (4) Theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational History, Educational Principles