TY - BOOK AU - De Stefano,Cristina AU - Conti,Gregory AU - De Stefano,Cristina TI - The child is the teacher: a life of Maria Montessori SN - 1635424135 (pbk.) AV - LB775 .M8 D4713 2022 U1 - 371.392092 23 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Other Press KW - Montessori, Maria, KW - Montessori method of education KW - History KW - Women educators KW - Italy KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 323-348); Constructing the self (1870-1900) -- Discovering her mission (1901-1907) -- The first disciples (1908-1913) -- Managing her success (1914-1934) -- Cosmic education (1934-1952); Originally published in Italian; Milan : Rizzoli, 2020; as; Il bambino รจ il maestro: vita di Maria Montessori N2 - "Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children-the accepted destiny for all women of her milieu in late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome-and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career. At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the condition of children in the slums of Rome's San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the school, and therefore the world, through a new approach to the child's mind. In spite of the resistance she faced from all sides-scientists accused her of being too mystical, and the clergy of being too scientific, traditionalists of giving children too much freedom, and anarchists of giving them too much structure-she would garner acclaim and establish the influential Montessori method, which is now practiced throughout the world." --publisher's website ER -