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Biography of Maria Montessori

Biography of Maria Montessori

• Name: Maria Tekla Artemisia Montessori.

• Born: 31 August 1870, Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy.

• Father: Alessandro Montessori.

• Mother: Renilde Stopani.

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Early life of Maria Montessori:     

        Maria Tekla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educationist, known for her philosophy of education, for her name, and her writings on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori broke gender barriers and expectations while enrolling in classes at an all-boys technical school with the hope of becoming an engineer. He soon changed heart and started medical school at the University of Rome, where he graduated - with honors - in 1896. Today its educational method is used in many public and private schools around the world.

        Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravale, Italy. His father, Alessandro Montessori, who was 33 at the time, was an Finance Ministry official working in a local state-run tobacco factory. His mother of 25 years, Renild Stopani, was well educated for the time and was the great niece of Italian geologist and paleontologist Antonio Stopani. While she had no special mentor, she was very close to her mother who encouraged her easily. She also had a loving relationship with her father, although she disagreed with her choice to continue her education.

        Maria's early medical practice focused on psychiatry. He also developed an interest in education, attended classes on pedagogy and immersed himself in educational theory. His studies led him to answer the prevalent methods and questions of teaching children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

        The opportunity to improve on these methods came in 1900, when she was appointed. Co-director of a new training institute for special education teachers. Maria approached the task scientifically, carefully observing and experimenting with which teaching methods worked best. Many children made unexpected gains, and the program was declared successful.

        At the age of twenty-eight, Montessori began advocating his controversial theory that the lack of support for children with mental and developmental disabilities was the cause of their fragility. The notion of social reform became a strong theme throughout Maria's life, whether it was for gender roles, or advocacy for children.

        In 1901 Montessori began her studies teaching philosophy and anthropology, lecturing and teaching students. In this period, the development of Rome meant that children were left at home as their parents worked. The number of children in need of guides and role models provided Maria with the opportunity to work with children with normal development and to mainstream her ideas. Dr. Montessori opened her Casa de Bamini in Rome, in1907 she brought some educational materials developed at the Orthophrenic School.

She put many different activities and other materials into the children's environment, but only kept those she liked. What Montessori came to know was that children who were placed in an environment where activities were designed to support their natural development had the power to educate themselves. She was later referred to as auto-education. In 1914 he wrote, "I did not invent a method of education, I just gave some young children a chance to live".

        By the autumn of 1908, five case debi bambini operated, four in Rome and one in Milan. In one Casa de Bamini, children made extraordinary progress, and soon 5-year-olds started writing and reading. The news of Montessori's new approach spread quickly, and visitors themselves arrived to see how she was achieving such results. Within a year the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland began to transform its kindergarten into the Case de Bamini and new educational approaches began to spread.