![]() That year Alexander Graham Bell and his wife founded the Montessori Educational Association. Montessori visited the United States in 1913. ![]() (NAMTA, Maria Montessori: A Brief Biography).ĭr. Montessori referred to this change as normalization and the new emerging children as normalized. Montessori observed this change with all the children in her environment, she concluded that she had discovered children’s true, normal nature, and she founded the Montessori Method. Montessori recognized that they “responded to the materials with a deep concentration, resulting in a fundamental shift in their way of being, changing from the ordinary behavior of fantasy, inattention and disorder, to a state of profound peace, calm and order within their environment.” Through scientific observation of these children, Dr. Montessori founded her first Casa dei Bambini, (Children’s House) to teach sixty under-privileged children. Her findings of how children learn inspired her to return to the University of Rome to study psychology and philosophy, and later teach anthropology. Maria Montessori, who in 1896 became Italy’s first female physician, discovered that fact through research on children with disabilities. ![]() ![]() Children build themselves from what they find in their environment. ![]()
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