Montessori Maria

The discovery of the child

Oxford, Clio

1999

- X, 339 p.

The Clio Montessori series, 2

Tit. orig.: La scoperta del bambino (1.ed., 1950. Dal testo italiano pronto nel 1948 si fece la traduzione inglese che uscà nello stesso anno). Ristampa ed. Clio (1. ed., 1988).

Costelloe M. Joseph

Translated from the italian by M. Joseph Costelloe.

1-85109-086-X

English

Great Britain

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Indice: Introduction; ON THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE SCHOOL; THE HISTORY OF METHODS; THE TEACHING METHODS EMPLOYED IN CHILDREN'S HOUSES: Physical growth; The environment; Practical observations; Discipline and liberty; The difficulty of discipline in schools; Independence; The more useless help is the more it is a hinderance to the development of natural powers; Rewards and punishments for our children; Freedom to develop; NATURE IN EDUCATION; EDUCATION IN MOVEMENT; THE MATERIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT: The isolation of a single quality in the material; Fundamental qualities common to everything in the educational environment surrounding a child; THE EXERCISES: How a teacher should give a lesson: comparison with the older systems; How to initiate a child into the exercises with the sensorial materials - Contrasts, identities, and graduations; VISUAL AND AUDITORY DISTINCTIONS; GENERALIZATIONS ON THE TRAINING OF THE SENSES; THE TEACHER; THE TECHNIQUE OF THE LESSONS; OBSERVATIONS ON PREJUDICES; ELEVATION: Silence - materialized abstractions; A comparison between the education of normal children and that of those who are mentally defective; A comparison between our system of teaching normal children and experimental psychology; The education of the senses leads to a sharpening of the senses through repeated exercises; WRITTEN LANGUAGE: The old methods of teaching reading and writing; THE MECHANISM OF WRITING; READING; SPEECH; TEACHING HOW TO COUNT AND AN INTRODUCTION TO ARITHMETIC; FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN ARITHMETIC; DRAWING AND REPRESENTATIVE ART; INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC; RELIGIOUS EDUCATION; DISCIPLINE IN A CHILDREN'S HOUSE; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPRESSIONS; THE TRIUMPHAL CHARIOT; GRADES AND SEQUENCE IN THE PRESENTATION OF THE MATERIAL; APPENDIX: Inaugural address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the second Children's House in 1907.