TY - BOOK AU - Lillard,Angeline Stoll AU - Vu,An AU - Montessori,Renilde TI - Montessori: the science behind the genius SN - 9780195369366 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Montessori, Maria, KW - Montessori method of education KW - United States N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -