Maria Montessori Research Paper

Maria Montessori a pioneer for helping women and children. Whether it being medically or educational wise, Maria devoted and dedicated her life to helping teachers in Europe then around the world understand why it’s it key to learning and studying early childhood development. Maria broke down gender barriers and advocated for disabled children when others wouldn’t, this is why Maria Montessori is an inspiring legend to millions of women and children.

For the Children: Maria Montessori the Miracle Maria Montessori was born on August 31st, 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy to a Ministry of Finance worker and to the great nice of the Italian Geologist and Theorist Antonio Stoppani. While Maria was growing up Italy had strict conservative values

She found remarkable improvements in the student’s development. She began spreading her finding in speeches throughout Europe also she began advocating for the lack of support schools gave to the mentally and developmentally disabled children. Maria’s success with developmental children spurred her to begin teaching “normal” children. (Michael Loaf, Maria Mon Bio). In 1907 the Italian government put her in charge of sixty student from the “slums” or poorer neighborhoods age range from one to six years old. This school was called Casa dei Bambibi, created for the “prepared learning” which the concept why certain children are more readily than others. Also, in 1908 she was appointed to lecture Pedegogic University, her famous lecture were printed in a book in 1910 titled, Pedagogical Anthropology. In 1912 Maria’s mother died at the age of seventy-two, so her and her son moved back to Rome where she home-schooled him until college. By mid-1913 Maria opened schools in Paris and many other European cities, she also held the first international training course in Rome. (Northwest, Montessori 2015). In 1915 she travelled to the United States and taught a three month training course on her theory to teachers, but the US didn’t put her theory in full affect until 1952. (Wonder Worker, 2016) She then traveled to Barcelona, Spain where she took residence for the next twenty years and lectured throughout Europe. In 1925, some of her schools began to shut down due to government taking away funding which outraged Maria so she met with Mussolini who extended his support and more finances to her schools, and by 1929 the Italian government supported her but her son was placed under surveillance after this she resigned from Opera Montessori which caused her to lose all