Language: Italian

Published: Firenze: Giunti-Bemporad Marzocco, 1970

Abstract/Notes: This paper aims to offer the first results of a research, still in progress, on the philosophical dimension of Maria Montessori's perspective, to broaden the understanding of the assumptions and objectives she set out to achieve through her Method. In particular, the article will be devoted to the exposition and recomposition of the main elements of Montessori's reflection on the socio-political dimension, during the last thirty years of her life, known as the ‘new horizon’. After exposing the teleological assumptions of the ‘Cosmic Plan’, derived from the rethinking of biological and geological notions, it will be shown that Montessori applies to nature’s ‘unity of method’ both to the process of psychophysical development of the human individual and to the configurations of social organization, orienting both towards ever greater and firmer cohesion. Starting from the discourses on the human creation of a ‘supernature’, which reveals the interdependence between all peoples (indeed, united in a ‘Unique Nation’), the essay will analyse the features of the new morality which, according to Montessori, will mark the ‘new world’ created by the child, normally developed through a free and natural adaptation to the new social conditions, in the context of technological civilization, the ‘new man will recognize the connection with all the beings of ‘creation’ and he will assume his responsibility for the care of fellow human beings and of the whole planet, fulfill the mission the cosmic plan has assigned to humanity.

Language: Italian, Spanish

DOI: 10.17227/pys.num58-17118

ISSN: 2500-6436

Language: German

ISSN: 0944-2537

Language: Spanish

ISSN: 0480-0974

Language: German

Published: Berlin, Germany, 1961

Language: Italian

Published: Firenze: Giunti-Bemporad Marzocco, 1970

Abstract/Notes: Dal testo del discorso commemorativo tenuto dal Prof. Nazareno Padellaro in occasione della cerimonia svoltasi a Roma, in Campidoglio, nel maggio 1962 nella ricorrenza del decennale della morte di Maria Montessori. [From the text of the commemorative speech given by Prof. Nazareno Padellaro on the occasion of the ceremony held in Rome, in Campidoglio, in May 1962 on the 10th anniversary of the death of Maria Montessori.]

Language: Italian

Published: Roma, Italy: Comitato italiano dell'OMEP, 1967

Abstract/Notes: L’intérêt que continue de susciter, un siècle après son invention, la méthode d’éducation conçue par la médecin et pédagogue italienne Maria Montessori est étonnant. Le foisonnement de publications de toutes natures (journalistique, vulgarisatrice, pédagogique, scientifique), mais aussi la création d’écoles qui se revendiquent de cette célèbre méthode et la multiplication des activités connexes (édition, fabrication de jouets et de matériel didactique) nourrissent la vogue actuelle du montessorisme. Ce dernier, en France, fait débat. Ce qui est heureux. Mais les données qui circulent sur Maria Montessori sont souvent biaisées par les enjeux éducatifs d’aujourd’hui. Certaines relèvent de l’hagiographie, voire d’un quasi-culte. D’autres, en vue de disqualifier son œuvre et l’actualité dont elle bénéficie, s’apparentent à des jugements « idéologico-politiques » sur la figure iconique de la fondatrice. Maria Montessori est dite, tour à tour, positiviste, spiritualiste, cléricale, théosophe, sympathisante du fascisme, au service des familles privilégiées, etc., etc. Afin de démêler le vrai du faux ou, tout simplement, combler nos lacunes, la recherche historique est plus que nécessaire. En France, elle ne fait que commencer comparé, par exemple, aux travaux accumulés par nos collègues italiens... [The interest that continues to arouse, a century after its invention, the method of education designed by the Italian doctor and pedagogue Maria Montessori is astonishing. The proliferation of publications of all kinds (journalistic, popular, educational, scientific), but also the creation of schools that claim to follow this famous method and the multiplication of related activities (publishing, manufacture of toys and teaching materials) feed the current vogue for Montessorism. The latter, in France, is debated. Which is happy. But the data circulating on Maria Montessori is often biased by today's educational issues. Some are hagiographical, or even quasi-cult. Others, with a view to disqualifying her work and the topicality from which it benefits, are similar to “ideological-political” judgments on the iconic figure of the foundress. Maria Montessori is said, in turn, positivist, spiritualist, clerical, theosophist, sympathizer of fascism, at the service of privileged families, etc., etc. In order to disentangle the true from the false or, quite simply, to fill in our gaps, historical research is more than necessary. In France, it has only just begun compared, for example, to the work accumulated by our Italian colleagues...]

Language: French

DOI: 10.3917/etsoc.175.0009

ISSN: 0014-2204

Language: Italian

ISSN: 0042-7241

Language: Italian

Published: Roma, Italy, 1950