Montessori Method - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition montessori-method

Definition :

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 ldquoHouses of Childhoodrdquo schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome Italy and first fully described by her in 1909 The fundamental aim is to create self motivation for education and the leading features are freedom for physical activity no stationary desks and chairs informal and individual instruction the very early development of reading and writing skills 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 ldquodidactic apparatusrdquo which is declared to be ldquoauto regulativerdquo 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