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The child is the teacher : a life of Maria Montessori / Cristina De Stefano ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti.

Summary:
"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access to original letters, diaries, notes, and texts written by Montessori herself, including an array of previously unpublished material"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781635420845
  • ISBN: 1635420849
  • Physical Description: 348 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in Italian as Il bambino è il maestro: Vita di Maria Montessori in 2020 by Rizzoli, Milan"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348).
Subject: Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952.
Educators > Italy > Biography.
Women educators > Italy > Biography.
Montessori method of education.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 5 of 5 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Dover Area Community Library Adults 371.39 DE Nonfiction (Text) 34217000846436 Adult Area Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 921 MONTESSORI (Text) 92525329 GFWM Main Room Available -
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) BIOG MONT-M (Text)
Endowment: Ruthe Craley Named Endowment, 2022
35740635837891 Biography Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 371.39 DES 2022 (Text) 31001101848571 Adult Non Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library 371.39 DEST (Text) 34455006893057 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -


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