For faster results please use our Quick Search engine.
Advanced Search
Search across titles, abstracts, authors, and keywords.
Advanced Search Guide.
Book
Maria Montessori, her life and work
See More
Language: German
Published: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: Herder, 1959
Edition: [1st edition German]
Book
Maria Montessori, Her Life and Work
See More
Language: English
Published: London, England: Hollis & Carter, 1957
Book
Education as a Help to Life
See More
Language: English
Published: Minnesota, United States: Montessori Research and Development Centre, 1994
Book
The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Philosophy, Montessori method of education, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - History
See More
Abstract/Notes: A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children's minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children-the accepted destiny for all women in her milieu of late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome-and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career. At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the work being done with children from the slums of the San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the school, and therefore the world, through a new approach to the child's mind. In spite of the resistance she faced from all sides-scientists accused her of being too mystical, and the clergy of being too scientific-she would garner acclaim and establish the influential Montessori Method, which is now practiced throughout the world. A thorough, nuanced portrait of this often controversial woman, The Child Is the Teacher is the first biographical work on Maria Montessori written by an author who is not a member of the Montessori movement, but who has been granted access to original letters, diaries, notes, and texts written by Montessori herself, including an array of previously unpublished material. Originally published in Italian as Il bambino è il maestro: Vita di Maria Montessori in 2020 by Rizzoli, Milan.
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Other Press, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-63542-084-5 1-63542-084-9
Book
Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
Available from: Books to Borrow @ Internet Archive
See More
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: The New American Library, 1962
Edition: [New edition]
Book
Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
See More
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: New American Library, [1984]
ISBN: 0-452-25624-0
Book
Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
See More
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Plume, 1984
ISBN: 0-452-26449-9
Book
Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
See More
Abstract/Notes: Original publication 1947
Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Penguin/Plume, 1998
Book Section
Teachers' Ways of Living and Being: Teachers as Reflective Lifelong Learners of Harmonious Living
Available from: Springer Link
Book Title: Learning to Live Together Harmoniously: Spiritual Perspectives from Indian Classrooms
Pages: 179-199
Asia, Classroom environments, Comparative education, India, South Asia, Spirituality, Teachers
See More
Abstract/Notes: This chapter emphasises the importance of teachers consciously trying to live together harmoniously for themselves as opposed to merely modelling behaviours. It highlights the teachers’ intrinsic commitment to pursuing Learning To Live Together Harmoniously both for themselves and for their students. It encourages questioning if schools need to be just learning centres for children or if they can be restructured as learning spaces for everyone, spaces for community living, and spaces for experimenting with different ways of living and being. It exemplifies some of these alternatives and finds that the schools had several supportive systems for teachers, including those for autonomy, dialogue, collaboration, reflection, meditation, action on issues of social justice, and ethos of harmony.
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2023
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 978-3-031-23538-2 978-3-031-23539-9
Series: Spirituality, Religion, and Education , 6
Doctoral Dissertation
Compassion in Schools: Life Stories of Four Holistic Educators
Available from: Library and Archives Canada
See More
Abstract/Notes: In this study the author investigates the nature of compassion, ways of developing compassion within ourselves, and ways of bringing compassion into schools. The author sees an imbalance and disconnection in the current Ontario public school system, between education of the mind (to have) and education of the heart (to be). This is demonstrated in the heightening violence in schools, because violence in schools means that students do not feel connected to and are not happy in their schools. To accomplish this purpose, the author explores the different ways we can connect--within ourselves, with classroom subjects, with students in the school, and with the community at large--through life stories of four holistic educators, including herself. Three have taught in Buddhist, Waldorf, and Montessori schools, which all foster compassion not only through empathy, caring, and love, but also through emotional and moral components of heart education, such as intuition, creativity, imagination, joy (Miller, 2006), and moral education (Noddings, 1992). The enquiry uses qualitative research and narrative method that includes portraiture and arts-based enquiry. The findings in the participants' narratives reveal that compassion comprises spirituality, empathy, and caring. We can develop compassion through contemplation in an awareness of interconnection between the I and the Other. In conclusion, we can foster compassion in schools if we use holistic education's basic principles of balance, inclusion, and connection (Miller, 1981, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2010), and if we bring in different ways of fostering compassion that the author has explored through four holistic teachers' narratives in this study. By nurturing and connecting to students' hearts, rather than forcing knowledge into their heads, it is possible to create schools where students are happy and feel connected to their learning.
Language: English
Published: Toronto, Canada, 2011