Full name: Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

Author: Angeline Stoll Lillard Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Education, Parenting, Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195325263 9780195369366 0195325265 019536936X

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. Lillard presents the research behind eight insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom. In reading this book, parents and teachers alike will develop a clear understanding of what happens in a Montessori classroom and, more important, why it happens and why it works. Lillard, however, does much more than explain the scientific basis for Montessori's system: Amid the clamor for evidence-based education, she presents the studies that show how children learn best, makes clear why many traditional practices come up short, and describes an ingenious alternative that works. Now with a foreword by Renilde Montessori, the youngest grandchild of Maria Montessori, Montessori offers a wealth of insights for anyone interested in education. Similar books: The Discovery of the Child by Maria Montessori The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori Montessori by Paula Polk Lillard The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori A Mind At A Time by Mel Levine Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori Endangered Minds by Jane M. Healy Summerhill by A. S. Neill Maria Montessori by E. M. Standing How Children Succeed by Paul Tough Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn Rethinking School by Susan Wise Bauer The End of Education by Neil Postman You Can't Say You Can't Play by Vivian Gussin Paley Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina The Primal Teen by Barbara Strauch The Teenage Brain by Frances E. Jensen The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto