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Article
Children's Rights Are Human Rights
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 14, no. 2
Date: 2002
Pages: 33–35
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Book Section
I diritti dell’infanzia e l’utopia sociale [Children's rights and social utopia]
Book Title: L'Utopia Montessoriana: Pace, Diritti, Libertà, Ambiente [Montessorian Utopia: Peace, Rights, Freedom, Environment]
Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Peace education
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Language: Italian
Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019
ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5
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Erica Moretti, The Best Weapon for Peace. Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights
Available from: Giornale di Storia
Publication: Giornale di Storia, no. 40
Date: 2022
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Abstract/Notes: Book review of: Erica Moretti, "The Best Weapon for Peace. Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights" (The University of Wisconsis Press, 2021). Included in a special monograph issue of the journal ("Scritture. Teorie e Prassi della Scrittura tra Filosofia, Scienza e Comunicazione").
Language: Italian
ISSN: 2036-4938
Article
The Children's Rights Issue
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 12, no. 4
Date: 2000
Pages: 5
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
News from the United Nations: Children's Rights–Do They Have Any?
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 12, no. 2
Date: 2000
Pages: 11–12
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Power to the Child: Children's Rights in Our World
Publication: Montessori International, vol. 78
Date: Jan 2006
Pages: 10–11
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Abstract/Notes: International Congress Montessori Europe, October, 2005, Gothenburg, Sweden
Language: English
ISSN: 1470-8647
Book
The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights
Asia, Displaced communities, Europe, Fascism, India, Italy, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - History, Pacifism, Peace
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Abstract/Notes: The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870–1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon for Peace, Erica Moretti reframes Montessori’s pacifism as the foundation for her educational activism, emphasizing her vision of the classroom as a gateway to reshaping society. Montessori education offers a child-centered learning environment that cultivates students’ development as peaceful, curious, and resilient adults opposed to war and invested in societal reform. Using newly discovered primary sources, Moretti examines Montessori’s lifelong pacifist work, including her ultimately unsuccessful push for the creation of the White Cross, a humanitarian organization for war-affected children. Moretti shows that Montessori’s educational theories and practices would come to define chilren’s rights once adopted by influential international organizations, including the United Nations. She uncovers the significance of Montessori’s evolving philosophy of peace and early childhood education within broader conversations about internationalism and humanitarianism.
Language: English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021
Edition: 1st edition
ISBN: 978-0-299-33310-2
Series: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Article
The Need to Bridge the Gap Between Research on Children’s Rights and Parenting Styles: Authoritative/Democratic Style as an Acultural Model for the Child’s Well-Being
Available from: MDPI
Publication: Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 1
Date: 2023
Pages: Article 22
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Abstract/Notes: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains specific provisions on parent–child relations and parenting, but these provisions can be described as elusive. Furthermore, the Convention does not explicitly specify a children’s-rights-friendly parenting style. On the other hand, there is a disconnect between research on children’s rights and parenting styles. Based on the insights of the meta-theoretical critical realist approach, this paper argues that universal human flourishing is inconceivable without the development of a children’s-rights-friendly parenting style. It is argued that the Convention’s provisions on parent–child relations can be adapted to the perceptions of average parents, especially living in paternalistic societies, by adapting the conceptualizations of parenting styles developed by Baumrind and Lakoff. Overall, research on children’s rights, supported by literature on children’s-rights-friendly parenting, can show that children’s rights do not alienate parental rights and responsibilities. Instead, children’s rights give appropriate direction to parental authority and responsibility to realize the child’s well-being.
Language: English
ISSN: 2076-0760
Article
The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education and Children’s Rights [book review]
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 8, no. 1
Date: 2022
Pages: 29-31
Book reviews, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Peace education
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Abstract/Notes: Erica Moretti, a professor of Italian at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, authored a recent intellectual biography of Maria Montessori, The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. In this book, Moretti writes in conversation with fellow European researchers and builds on their work to present this English-language examination of Montessori’s pacifism that places her as a central figure in 20th-century global humanitarianism, disaster relief, peace activism, and social reform.
Language: English
ISSN: 2378-3923
Article
The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights [book review]
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education
Date: Feb 7, 2023
Pages: 1-4