Data de nascimento: 31. Agosto 1870
Data de falecimento: 6. Maio 1952
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori foi uma educadora, médica e pedagoga italiana. É conhecida pelo método educativo que desenvolveu e que ainda é usado hoje em escolas públicas e privadas mundo afora.
Destacou a importância da liberdade, da atividade e do estímulo para o desenvolvimento físico e mental das crianças. Para ela, liberdade e disciplina se equilibrariam, não sendo possível conquistar uma sem a outra. Adaptou o princípio da auto-educação, que consiste na interferência mínima dos professores, pois a aprendizagem teria como base o espaço escolar e o material didático. Wikipedia
Fonte: Maria Montessori; A Criança;p. 178; 1983, Editorial Nórdica Ltda; Brasil
Fonte: Maria Montessori; A Educação e a Paz; p. 54; Papirus Editora; 2004; Brasil
Fonte: Maria Montesssori; Para Desenvolver o Potencial Humano;p.19; Papirus Editora; 2003; Brasil
Fonte: Nova Escola http://novaescola.abril.com.br/ed/164_ago03/html/pensadores.htm
Fonte: Nova Escola http://novaescola.abril.com.br/ed/164_ago03/html/pensadores.htm
Part II : How Language Calls to the Child, p. 121
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 4.
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
Contexto: If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
The Secret of Childhood, p. 108.
Contexto: We have in ourselves tendencies that are not good and which flourish like weeds in a field. (Original sin). These tendencies are many; they fall into seven groups, known of old as the Seven deadly sins. All deadly sins tend to separate us from the child; for the child compared to us, is not only purer but has mysterious qualities, which we adults as a rule cannot perceive, but in which we must believe with faith, for Jesus spoke to them so clearly and insistently that all the Evangelists recorded His words: Unless ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall nor enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him. It is with this endeavour, thus defined and delimited, that we wish to deal.
Fonte: The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author
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