Montessori : the science behind the genius /

Lillard, Angeline Stoll,

Montessori : the science behind the genius / Angeline Stoll Lillard ; photographs by An Vu ; with a foreword by Renilde Montessori. - Updated edition. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xiv, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-378) and indexes.

An Answer to the crisis in Education -- The impact of movement on learning and cognition -- Choice and perceived control -- Interest in human learning -- Extrinsic Rewards and motivation -- Learning from peers -- Meaningful contexts for learning -- Adult interaction styles and child outcomes -- Order in environment and mind -- Education "for" children.

One hundred 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 -- globalbooksinprint.com.

9780195369366 019536936X

Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892

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Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952.


Montessori method of education--United States.

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