The Secret of Childhood
by Maria Montessori
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Before anything else, this book is a description of the child, seen with the exactness of a scientist and the empathy of a warm heart. From this understanding grew the way of teaching based on collaborating with the needs and powers of a child and the removing of obstacles to this growth that has come to be known as the Montessori Method.Tags
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Pais e educadores encontrarão neste livro o resultado da aplicação do método da autora divulgado e estudado universalmente. Pode dizer-se que os ensinamentos de Montessori revolucionaram radicalmente as noções tradicionalmente aceites sobre o mundo da infância. Está hoje popularizada a crença de que o mundo infantil é um mundo à parte. Cabe a esta autora o mérito de ter transformado, através do seu ensino e das suas obras, as estruturas antipedagógicas que consistiam em assimliar a criança no mundo dos adultos, retirando à infância o que é um dado primordial: a sua personalidade autónoma.
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Maria Montessori, an Italian educator who was the first woman doctor granted a degree in Italy, has been well known in the field of childhood education since the early 1900s. Dissatisfied with the educational methods of her time, she developed her own theories in systematic fashion. The Montessori Method, as it became known, allows each child to show more develop at his or her own pace through the manipulation of materials. The teacher's role is to provide the materials and then act as a supervisor and a guide. This and other concepts of hers have had considerable influence on modern education. Montessori first worked with retarded children, then classified as "untrainable," most of whom she succeeded in teaching to read and write. She established a number of Houses of Children in Italy devoted to providing new opportunities for underprivileged children. Recent U.S. efforts in this direction have led to a strong revival of interest in her work, and Montessori's methods also have been expanded to children beyond the preschool years. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- from the foreword by Margaret E. Stephenson: There is, in reality, only the child, of all times, of all races, heir to tradition, hander-on of history, crucible of culture, pathway to peace. xvii
sensitive period [befo... (show all)re intellectual victories/reasoning processes, toil of research]: A child has a special interior vitality which accounts for the miraculous manner in which he makes his natural conquests...
intellectual calm...calm is more than mere lack of nervousness: "But there is here a question of a deeper calm, an empty, or better, unencumbered state that is a source of inner clarity. This calm consists in a spiritual humility and intellectual purity necessary for the understanding of a child, and which, as a consequence, must be found in a teacher. (167)
instinct to work, "builds himself through working...builds himself by carrying out manual labor in which he uses his hands as the instruments of his personality and as an expression of his intellect and will helping him to dominate his environment...source of great satisfaction and a principle of health and regeneration...lost proper motives for work--> forced labor, seems hard and repugnant
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