Maria Montessori [Hardcover]

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
Maria Montessori is indisputably a major thinker in education. Marion O'Donnell's volume offers the most coherent account of Montessori's educational thought. This work is divided into:
Intellectual biography
?Critical exposition of Montessori's work
The reception and influence of Montessori's work and The relevance of the work today.

Intellectual biography

Critical exposition of the thinker's work

The reception and influence of the work

The relevance of the work today

Bibliography (including references to electronic resources)
Index