Maria montessori

The Life of Maria Montessori

By camijohnston
  • Edouard Seguin

    Edouard Seguin

    Facts:
    1.1839 he opened the worlds first school for the mentally diabled.
    2. 1846 he published "Mental Treatment, Hygiene, and Education of Idiots" which became world renown.
    Died 28 October 1880
    3.1866 livng in New York he published "Idiocy and Its Treatment by the Psychological Method" and stressed sense and motor training.

  • Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle Italy

  • Montessori Family Moved to Rome

  • Maria goes to Medical School at the Universiry of Rome

    Out of the 130 women at the University of Rome she was the only one studying to become a doctor.
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    Medical School

    This was a very difficult time for her. She was ridiculed by the men in her clesses. She nerly gives up at this time and feels very isolated. She then uses the teasing to empower her and goes on to be the only female doctor in her graduating class and to fight for womens rights.
  • Maria Graduates Medical School

    Maria Graduates Medical School

  • Feminist Congress in Berlin

  • Became surgical assistant at Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome

  • Volunteered at the University of Rome pychiatric clinic and visited the Asylums

    Volunteered at the University of Rome pychiatric clinic and visited the Asylums

    She worked alongside Giusseppe Montesano and developed a private romantice relationship with him. She visited Asylums and developed a compassion for the childen and started to study the work of Eduoard Seguin and other great researchers.

  • Gave birth to Mario

  • Addresses the National Medical Congress in Turin

    She spoke about her observations that the lack of care for these children in the asylums lead to or contributed to their disabilities.

  • Co-director, with Guisseppe Montesano, of the Orthophrenic School.

  • Opened the Casa dei Bambini

    Opened the Casa dei Bambini

    hat Montessori came to realize was that children who were placed in an environment where activities were designed to support their natural development they had the power to educate themselves.

  • 5 operating Casa dei Bambini's

  • Gave her first training course of 100 students

  • Published her first book: The Montessori Method

  • The Montessori Method was translated to English and published in the U.S

  • Her mother died

    She started wearing the black clothes of mouring which she wore for 20 years.

  • Opened her first training center in Rome

  • At 14 years old her son Mario came to live with her in Rome

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    World travel and Expansion in the Montessori approach

    Schools and training programs sprang up all over the world. Maria traveled to America, UK and Europe giving lectures. The Expansion was haulted mostly by the first world war.
  • She moved to Spain with Mario and his family.

    She moved to Spain with Mario and his family.

    Published The Advanced Montessori Method

  • Training center in England

  • Association Montessori Internationale

    Association Montessori Internationale

    An organization set up by Maria Montessori in 1929 to continue her work.
  • Montessori refused to cooperate with Mussolini

    Montessori refused to cooperate with Mussolini

    He closed down her schools because she refused to incorporate fascism in her schools. Schools in Germany also were closed.
  • Beacuse of war she fled from Spain to the Netherlands

    Beacuse of war she fled from Spain to the Netherlands

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    Journey to India

    Mario and Maria travel to India. While under house arrest because of the war she comes up with her theory of Cosmic Education.
  • Addressed UNESCO on the theme ‘Education and Peace'

    Addressed UNESCO on the theme ‘Education and Peace'

  • The Absorbent Mind

  • Recieved her first of 3 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Died in the Netherlands