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This 6 page paper discusses the methods and theories of Maria Montessori on the learning styles and abilities of children. Pros and Cons discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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individual. Her contributions to many areas of study, in particular cognition and education, are still utilized to this day. One is hard pressed to choose just one area of
excellence for Maria Montessori. In many ways, she was indeed, an anomaly for her day and age. Many women were not allowed to speak in male company, let alone allowed
to attend universities of higher learning. Montessori did both, being the first to obtain her medical license in 1896(Plenkenhov 1992). As a physician she was involved in the study
of the diseases of children. Many of these children were determined to be uneducable. As an experiment she attempted to work with these children to see if she could understand
how their mental processes differed from normal children. This, then, would spark an interest in working with children which would develop in a very short while into a lifelong goal
of teaching children. She caught the attention of many scholars when she was able to teach these diseased and presumably defective children. She was highly influenced by Rousseau and Pestalozzi,
and seems to have utilized the best of both techniques with added elements based on her own observations. Montessori believed that children would teach themselves if given ample opportunity in
their environment, stating that first the senses, then the education of the mind(Wesissglass 1999, see also Schute 2002). What made the
Montessori method highly controversial was the fact that she did not rely on the standard teaching by rote, but by developing exercises that allowed children to discover the truth, or
concept on their own. For example, looking would gradually be shaped into the act of reading, and the act of touching would eventually be shaped into the act of writing.
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