Language: English

Published: Hyderabad: Association Montessori Internationale, 1970

Abstract/Notes: Anne George, Adelia Pyle, Margaret Naumburg and Helen Parkhurst were all trained as directresses by Maria Montessori. George, Montessori’s first American student, took the course in 1910; Pyle and Naumburg were among the ninety students in Montessori’s First International Training Course in 1913; Parkhurst, one of eighty students, completed the Second International Training Course in 1914. Their training established their credentials in American Montessori education. Their role in the early history of the Montessori movement is largely an extension of and implementation of what they learned in the course. The training course consisted of lectures and clinical observations of Montessori classes. Montessori lectured on: (1) applying science to education; (2) the correct method of observing children; (3) using empirical techniques to render anthropological and clinical information into replicable and usable educational practices; (4) designing and using didactic apparatus and materials to develop children’s skills and abilities at crucial sensitive periods in their development. And (5) replicating the Montessori classroom, the prepared educational environment. After completing the course, George, Parkhurst and Naumburg faced the challenge of transporting and recreating the Montessori Method in the United States.

Language: English

Published: Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-54835-3

Series: Historical Studies in Education

Language: English

ISSN: 0040-7887

Abstract/Notes: This is an article from Montessori Education, a Japanese language periodical published by the Japan Association Montessori.

Language: Japanese

ISSN: 0913-4220

Abstract/Notes: This article exhorts the observer to take notice of the unconscious and conscious levels of the young child's absorbent mind (infant stare). Montessori notes the social awareness of young children and suggests that their amazing awareness of people, not merely their activities, is integral to observation. [Reprinted with permission from "AMI Communications 2" (1978): 2-5.]

Language: English

ISSN: 1522-9734

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ISSN: 0028-5048

Abstract/Notes: "San Francisco, Cal., June 26 - Under the patronage of Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Maria Montessori, the noted Italian educator, will conduct an international Montessori training course at the Panama-Pacific International exposition during August, September, October and November. With Miss Wilson on the committee in charge of the course are David Starr Jordan, president of the National Education association, which meets in Oakland in August, and P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education. The special course will be for the benefit of teachers, parents and others interested in child welfare, and in connection with it will be held a number of demonstration schools in which teachers will do practice work. Noted educators from all parts of the United States and from abroad have been asked to conduct a thorough study and test of Dr. Montessori's method of child training during this course. The exposition authorities asked Dr. Montessori to conduct her international training course on the exposition grounds because of the opportunity it will afford to give an international test of this newest and unique method of developing individual initiative in very young children. An essential part of the plan consists in the appointment of an international committee which will give careful and extended stay to the demonstration classes and report at the close of the exposition concerning the actual progress made and the real contribution that the Montessori principles have made to educational advancement. The arrangements for the course are in the hands of Wallace Hatch of Berkeley, Cal., who was formerly acting chief of the department of education of the exposition."

Language: English