MARIA MONTESSORI – A REMARKABLE FEMALE PROFILE IN PEDAGOGY AND A LIFE DEDICATED TO ITS MAJESTY: “THE CHILD”
MARIA MONTESSORI – A REMARKABLE FEMALE PROFILE IN PEDAGOGY AND A LIFE DEDICATED TO ITS MAJESTY: “THE CHILD”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents relevant biographical aspects of Maria Montessori’s life, aspects that marked the construction and assertion of the creative personality of the first female doctor in Italy who dedicated her entire life to knowing the laws of child development and its holistic education. The article explains Maria Montessori's pedagogical theory of education by exploiting some of the most famous Montessorian texts: “The Child – A Divine, but Misunderstood Being”, “The Method of Scientific Pedagogy Applied to the Education of Young Children”, “The Absorbent Mind” and “The Child in the Family”. The practical part of the work supports the understanding of the Montessorian pedagogical concepts about the ability of every child to educate itself, to build itself as a personality under the natural forces available in a rich and stimulating environment, suitable to satisfy the need of the child to assimilate spontaneously what it needs in order to gradually turn into its own substance.

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