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The Special Needs Child from the Montessori Perspective

Ms Vaz, AMI trainer and member of the AMI Special Needs ad hoc committee, talks about the challenges and opportunities of receiving children with special needs...

Question and Answer, Pacifiers

Dr Montanaro expounds on the possible averse effects of giving children pacifiers. She makes a strong plea for withholding pacifiers from the child, as they...

A hundred years of Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica

Paola Trabalzini is Professor of Aspects of Education at Rome's La Sapienza University, and a wellrespected scholar on placing Montessori's writings...

Announcement: Maria Montessori’s Collected Works in German

The first volume in the academic series is to be launched in the Spring of 2010. For over ten years, the teaching and research centre for Montessori Pedagogy...

Editorial

Movements with Intelligent Purpose, 4th Lecture on the 10th International Training Course, London, 12 April 1921

Montessori argues here that movements considered solely from the point of view of a physiological fact do not really exist in life; all our movements have a...

Executive Function and Tools of the Mind

Prof. Diamond is a neuropsychologist and this lecture was delivered as the keynote address following AMI's Annual General Meeting on April 10, 2010,...

Nurturing the Respectful Community through Practical Life

Joen Bettmann's depiction of Practical Life exercises as character-building reveals how caring, careful, and independent work leads to higher self-esteem...

Guiding the Process of Normalization

Montessori saw two major processes that appear opposites in children's development. The process of normalization was considered the 'most important...

Dr Steve Hughes heads AMI Global Research Committee

One of the questions AMI asked itself a few years ago was 'how can we reach scientists, researchers and universities throughout the world to establish...