MONTESSORI, Maria.

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L'autoeducazione nelle scuole elementari. First edition of this exposition of the Montessori educational method, building on the success of her 1909 Il Metodo della Pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantil. It reports on the application of the theory in the intervening period and considers how it could be extended to cater for more advanced children.A student of engineering and then medicine, Montessori (1870-1952) became the first woman in Italy to qualify as a medical doctor, graduating in 1896. As part of her work at the University of Rome's psychiatric clinic, Montessori visited the city's asylums to observe children with mental disabilities. This, paired with her intensive study of the writings of earlier physicians, educators, and philosophers like Itard, Séguin, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and Froebel, convinced her that any issues encountered when teaching the so-called "ineducable" were merely pedagogical, leading her in 1907 to open the first Casa dei Bambini.

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