Lillard presents the research concerning eight insights that are foundational to Montessori education and describes how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom. In Montessori, Angeline Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori: Current scientific research provides astounding support for her major insights. Montessori’s theories and practices stand up to the scrutiny of modern-day developmental psychology? Can developmental psychology tell us anything about how and why Montessori methods work? One hundred years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn.ĭoes Montessori education provide a viable alternative to traditional schooling? Do Dr. School reforms repeatedly fail by not penetrating these models. Traditional American schooling is in constant crisis because it is based on two poor models for children’s learning: the school as a factory and the child as a blank slate.
Winner of the Cognitive Development Society Book Award Oxford University Press, 2017 (496 pages)
Montessori: The Science behind the Genius, 3rd edition
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