THE MONTESSORI METHOD LIBRARY (Special Nook Edition): MARIA MONTESSORI'S OWN HANDBOOK Childhood Montessori Education and Homeschooling Montessori Schools and Montessori Education Handbook by MARIA MONTESSORI Founder of the Montessori Method [NOOKBook]

THE MONTESSORI HANDBOOK (Special Nook Edition)

Montessori Schools and Montessori Education Handbook
by MARIA MONTESSORI
Founder of the Montessori Method

[Dr. Maria Montessori's Own Handbook for Childhood Montessori Schools Education and Homeschooling]

Published by The International Montessori Schools Society


ABOUT MONTESSORI EDUCATION

Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Montessori education is practiced in an estimated 20,000 schools worldwide, serving children from birth to eighteen years old.

Montessori education is characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological development. This approach is based on Montessori’s model of human development from her published works, and use pedagogy, lessons, and materials introduced in teacher training derived from courses presented by Montessori during her lifetime.

Montessori education is fundamentally a model of human development, and an educational approach based on that model. The model has two basic elements. First, children and developing adults engage in psychological self-construction by means of interaction with their environments. Second, children, especially under the age of six, have an innate path of psychological development. Based on her observations, Montessori believed that children at liberty to choose and act freely within an environment prepared according to her model would act spontaneously for optimal development.