| Montessori Method (montessori method) |
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| Mon`tes*so"ri Meth"od |
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A system
of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children
aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while
teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement
districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909.
Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary
desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early
development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training
(with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and
their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system
of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative."
Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current
methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children,
and dating back especially to the work of the French-American
physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812-80).
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