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Montessori : The Science Behind the Genius.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (497 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199981533
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 371.39/2
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Contents:
Cover -- Montessori -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- First and Second Edition Preface -- Third Edition Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Book -- 1. An Answer to the Crisis in Education -- 2. The Impact of Movement on Learning and Cognition -- 3. Choice and Perceived Control -- 4. Executive Function -- 5. Interest in Human Learning -- 6. Extrinsic Rewards and Motivation -- 7. Learning From Peers -- 8. Meaningful Contexts for Learning -- 9. Adult Interaction Styles and Child Outcomes -- 10. Order in Environment and Mind -- 11. Recent Research on Montessori Education -- 12. Education for Children -- Works Cited -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom.
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Cover -- Montessori -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- First and Second Edition Preface -- Third Edition Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Book -- 1. An Answer to the Crisis in Education -- 2. The Impact of Movement on Learning and Cognition -- 3. Choice and Perceived Control -- 4. Executive Function -- 5. Interest in Human Learning -- 6. Extrinsic Rewards and Motivation -- 7. Learning From Peers -- 8. Meaningful Contexts for Learning -- 9. Adult Interaction Styles and Child Outcomes -- 10. Order in Environment and Mind -- 11. Recent Research on Montessori Education -- 12. Education for Children -- Works Cited -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom.

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