Exercises of Practical Life

The Montessori Method

by Maria MONTESSORI (1870 - 1952)

In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children, the method she developed was used with several children who at age eight took the state examinations in reading and writing, the children passed with above average scores. Because of this success (which is known as the 'first Montessori Miracle') Dr. Montessori was asked to open a school for children in Rome which she did. It was called the Case dei Bambini or “Children's House”. Now 101 years after the opening of the first Children's House we have recorded the first English translation of "The Montessori Method" by Maria Montessori. This book explains the Montessori Method of Education which supports “spontaneous self-development” of children and is used in the Case dei Bambini as well as many many Montessori Schools through out the world. (Written by Shurtagal and Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of The Montessori Method:
Description of the Method and Didactic Material Used Part 2 , Conclusions and Impressions , Description of the Method and Didactic Material Used Part 1 , Education of the Senses , General Notes on the Education of the Senses , General Review of Discipline , General Sensibility: the Tactile, Thermic, Baric and Stereognostic Senses , Intellectual Education , Language in Childhood , Manual Labour - The Potter's Art and Building , Method for the Teaching of Reading and Writing , Muscular Education - Gymnastics , Nature in Education - Agricultural Labour; Culture of Plants and Animals , Refection - The Child's Diet , Sequence of Exercises , Teaching of Numeration: Introduction to Arithmetic