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Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook: A Short Guide to Her Ideas and Materials

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"This is the book that Maria Montessori wrote in response to requests from thousands of American parents and teachers. A short, illustrated guide to the use of the Montessori classroom materials, it shows how to set up a ""children's house""-an environment for learning where children can be their own masters, free to learn at their own pace.

Frames for lacing and buttoning, geometrical wooden insets, sound cylinders, sandpaper letters, colored numerical rods: these are familiar features of any Montessori classroom, whether in the pioneering days or today. Dr. Montessori explains how to use these materials with preschool children to stimulate their powers of observation, recognition, judgment, and classification.

These self-correcting learning tools are the original ""teaching machines"" for young children. Inherently logical and aesthetically pleasing, they were designed to hone the child's visual, auditory, and tactile perceptions. Dr. Montessori stresses that each child approaches the apparatus differently. The role of the adult, whether teacher or parent, is to let the child experiment, perceive his own mistakes, and run his own risks in learning."

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Series Title

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Call Number

371.392 MON d

Publisher

New York : Schocken Books., 1965

Collation

189 pgs.; illus. 20.5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0805209212

Classification

371.392

Content Type

text

Media Type

unmediated

Carrier Type

other (unmediated)

Edition

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Subject(s)

Montessori Method of Education
Montessori Education
Montessori Teaching Methods

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Statement of Responsibility

Maria Montessori

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