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Author Montessori, Maria, 1870-1952.

Title The absorbent mind / Translated from the Italian by Claude A. Claremont.

Publication Info. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967]

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  155.4 MONTESSORI    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description xii, 304 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents The child's part in world reconstruction -- Education for life -- The periods of growth -- The new path -- The miracle of creation -- Embryology and behavior -- The spiritual embryo -- The child's conquest of independence -- The first days of life -- Some thoughts on language -- How language calls to the child -- The effect of obstacles on development -- The importance of movement in general development -- Intelligence and the hand -- Development and imitation -- From unconscious creator to conscious worker -- Further elaboration through culture and imagination -- Character and its defects in childhood -- The child's contribution to society : normalization -- Character building is the child's own achievement -- Children's possessiveness and its transformations -- Social development -- Cohesion in the social unit -- Mistakes and their correction -- The three levels of obedience -- Discipline and the teacher -- The teacher's preparation -- Love and its source : the child.
Subject Child psychology.
Educational psychology.
Education.
Psychology, Child.
Child Development.
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