Montessori Education and a Neighborhood School

Playful Learning and Montessori Education

Although Montessori education is often considered a form of playful learning, Maria Montessori herself spoke negatively about a major component of playful learning—pretend play, or fantasy—for young children. In this essay, the author discusses this apparent contradiction: how and why Montessori education includes elements of playful learning while simultaneously eschewing fantasy. She conclude...

Montessori education and its scientific basis

Italians have always revered the arts and promoted the infusion of beauty and fi ne design into the quality of everyday life. Perhaps it is this distinctive cultural fl air, revealed in fi elds such as architecture, painting, interior design, graphics, fashion, and cuisine, that has infl uenced Italy also to become a giant in the fi eld of early childhood education. In the 20th century, Italy h...

The early years. Evaluating Montessori education.

"Fine Designs" from Italy: Montessori Education and the Reggio Approach

A Montessori Mother

A Montessori Mother. By Dorothy Canfield Fisher. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1912. Pp. xiv + 24U. To an interpretation of what the Montessori idea promises to American mothers, Mrs. Fisher has brought the keen insight and vividly graceful style that have made her magazine stories so enjoyable. Returning from a prolonged stay in Rome she was immediately set upon and besought by friends, ac...