The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author

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Author

Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952

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Produced by Alicia Williams, Brenda Lewis and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

LB: Education: Theory and practice of education

Subject

Montessori method of education

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eBook-No.

39863

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39863

Release Date

May 31, 2012

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE MONTESSORI METHOD — SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY AS APPLIED TO CHILD EDUCATION IN "THE CHILDREN'S HOUSES" WITH ADDITIONS AND REVISIONS BY THE AUTHOR — BY
2. 2.MARIA MONTESSORI
3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
4. 4.PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.INTRODUCTION — THE MONTESSORI METHOD
8. 8.A Critical Consideration of the New Pedagogy in its Relation to Modern Science
9. 9.History of Methods
10. 10.Inagural Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Opening of One of the "Children's Houses" — RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE "CHILDREN'S HOUSES"
11. 11.Pedagogical Methods used in the "Children's Houses" — ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION — ENVIRONMENT: SCHOOLROOM FURNISHINGS
12. 12.Discipline — INDEPENDENCE — ABOLITION OF PRIZES AND OF EXTERNAL FORMS OF PUNISHMENT — THE BIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF LIBERTY IN PEDAGOGY
13. 13.How the Lessons Should be Given — CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL LESSONS:—CONCISENESS, SIMPLICITY, OBJECTIVITY
14. 14.Exercises of Practical Life — PROPOSED WINTER SCHEDULE OF HOURS IN THE "CHILDREN'S HOUSES" — Opening at Nine O'clock—Closing at Four O'clock
15. 15.Refection—The Child's Diet — DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEALS
16. 16.Muscular Education—Gymnastics — FREE GYMNASTICS — EDUCATIONAL GYMNASTICS — RESPIRATORY GYMNASTICS
17. 17.Nature in Education — Agricultural Labour: Culture of Plants and Animals
18. 18.Manual Labour—the Potter's Art and Building
19. 19.Education of the Senses
20. 20.Education of the Senses and Illustrations of the Didactic Material: General Sensibility; the Tactile, Thermic, Baric, and Stereognostic Senses — EDUCATION OF THE STEREOGNOSTIC SENSE — EDUCATION OF THE SENSES OF TASTE AND SMELL — EDUCATION OF THE SENSE OF VISION — I. Differential Visual Perception of Dimensions — II. Differential Visual Perception of Form and Visual-tactile-muscular Perception — III. Differential Visual Perception of Colours:—Education of the Chromatic Sense — EXERCISE FOR THE DISCRIMINATION OF SOUNDS
21. 21.General Notes on the Education of the Senses
22. 22.Intellectual Education — GAMES OF THE BLIND — APPLICATION OF THE EDUCATION OF THE VISUAL SENSE TO THE OBSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
23. 23.Methods for the Teaching of Reading and Writing
24. 24.Description of the Method and Didactic Material Used — FIRST PERIOD: EXERCISE TENDING TO DEVELOP THE MUSCULAR MECHANISM NECESSARY IN HOLDING AND USING THE INSTRUMENT IN WRITING — SECOND PERIOD: EXERCISES TENDING TO ESTABLISH THE VISUAL-MUSCULAR IMAGE OF THE ALPHABETICAL SIGNS, AND TO ESTABLISH THE MUSCULAR MEMORY OF THE MOVEMENTS NECESSARY TO WRITING — THIRD PERIOD: EXERCISES FOR THE COMPOSITION OF WORDS — READING
25. 25.Language in Childhood — DEFECTS OF LANGUAGE DUE TO LACK OF EDUCATION
26. 26.Teaching of Numeration; Introduction to Arithmetic — THE NUMBERS AS REPRESENTED BY THE GRAPHIC SIGNS — EXERCISES FOR THE MEMORY OF NUMBERS — ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FROM ONE TO TWENTY: MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION — LESSONS ON DECIMALS: ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS BEYOND TEN
27. 27.Sequence of Exercises — SEQUENCE AND GRADES IN THE PRESENTATION OF MATERIAL AND IN THE EXERCISES — First Grade — Second Grade — Third Grade — Fourth Grade — Fifth Grade
28. 28.General Review of Discipline
29. 29.Conclusions and Impressions — THE END

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