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The child is the teacher : a life of Maria Montessori / Cristina De Stefano ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti. by De Stefano, Cristina, 1967- Other Press, 2022. Call #: 370.92 M765d Subjects Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952   Educators -- Italy -- Biography.   Women educators -- Italy -- Biography.   Montessori method of education. ISBN:  9781635420845 (hc.) Uniform title:  Bambino è il maestro. English Description:  348 p. ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in Italian as Il bambino è il maestro: Vita di Maria Montessori in 2020 by Rizzoli, Milan"--T. p. verso Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references 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access to original letters, diaries, notes, and texts written by Montessori herself, including an array of previously unpublished material."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 370.92 M765d Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 370.92 M765d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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