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Title: The Best Weapon for Peace
Condition: New
Subtitle: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights
EAN: 9780299333140
ISBN: 9780299333140
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/30/2022
Description: The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870–1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon for Peace, Erica Moretti reframes Montessori’s pacifism as the foundation for her educational activism, emphasizing her vision of the classroom as a gateway to reshaping society. Montessori education offers a child-centered learning environment that cultivates students’ development as peaceful, curious, and resilient adults opposed to war and invested in societal reform.
 
Using newly discovered primary sources, Moretti examines Montessori’s lifelong pacifist work, including her ultimately unsuccessful push for the creation of the White Cross, a humanitarian organization for war-affected children. Moretti shows that Montessori’s educational theories and practices would come to define children’s rights once adopted by influential international organizations, including the United Nations. She uncovers the significance of Montessori’s evolving philosophy of peace and early childhood education within broader conversations about internationalism and humanitarianism.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 38mm
Author: Erica Moretti
Genre: History
Book Series: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Topic: Society & Culture, Children's Learning & Education
Item Weight: 229g
Release Year: 2022

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