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Maria Montessori
Contributor(s): O'Donnell, Marion (Author), Bailey, Richard (Editor)
ISBN: 0826484069     ISBN-13: 9780826484062
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $242.55  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2008
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Annotation: The Continuum Library of Education Thought series is 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 project of its kind ever published--a definitive resource for at least a generation.
Each volume includes the following chapters:
1. Intellectual biography
2. Critical exposition of the thinker's work
3. The reception and influence of the work
4. The relevance of the work today
5. Bibliography
6. Index
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Educators
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2007018520
Series: Continuum Library of Educational Thought (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.8" W x 9.17" (1.05 lbs) 232 pages
 
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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.