Maria Montesorri’s Achievement/Education

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Maria Montesorri’s Achievement Liliana Sanchez Maria Montesorri’s Achievement There are many educators that have made many contributions to the field of education. Although most of them are men, there have also been many great women in the history of developing education as we know it today. This paper will concentrate in Maria Montesorri’s resistances she may have encountered. I will also discuss her achievements, and her main contributions to the field of education. Maria Montesorri was born in Italy. She refused to become a teacher and decided to go into the field of medicine, something not accepted for ladies during the late nineteenth century. Montesorri’s persistency gained her a degree in medicine and surgery graduating in 1894, and becoming the first woman to graduate with a medical doctor degree. After graduating, Montesorri became assistant doctor at the university psychiatric clinic and this gave her the opportunity to work with handicapped children and at the same time became involved in teaching them. Montesorri was very successful teaching the handicapped children. The handicapped children learn to read and write well enough that she decided to take them to a public school to be examined with the general students. Surprisingly, the handicapped children passed the public school exams. After thinking and searching for answers, Montesorri realized it was pedagogical principals. Using comparable methods for the general student’s, would produce the same results with disabled children. In 1907, Montesorri had the opportunity to test her educational ideas. In an effort to create order in stairs and corridors of an apartment block. The director of the Roman Association of Good Building set aside one apartment for the care and education for

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