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Title:
The Montessori method / Maria Montessori ; [introduction by J. McV. Hunt].
Author:
Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952.

Hunt, Joseph McVicker, 1906-1991.
Publication Information:
[Thousand Oaks, CA] : BN Publishing, c2008.
Call Number:
LB775 .M7613 2008
ISBN:
9781607961703

9789562916387
Physical Description:
244 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Translation of: Metodo della pedagogia scientifica.
Contents:
Revisiting Montessori -- A critical consideration of the new pedagogy in its relation to modern science -- History of methods -- Inaugural address delivered on the occasion of the opening of one of the "children's houses" -- Pedagogical methods used in the "children's houses" -- Discipline -- How the lesson should be given -- Exercises of practical life.... -- Refection: the child's diet -- Muscular education: gymnastics -- Nature in education: agricultural labour; culture of plants and animals -- Manual labour: the potter's art and building -- Education of the senses -- Education of the senses and illustrations of the didactic material: general sensibility: the tactile, thermic, baric and stereognostic senses -- General notes on the education of the senses -- Intellectual education -- Methods for the teaching of reading and writing -- Description of the method and didactic material used... -- Language in childhood -- Teaching of numeration: introduction to arithmetic -- Sequence of exercises -- General review of discipline.
Uniform Title:
Metodo della pedagogia scientifica. English
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