The Children’s House on Via Solari in Milan, run by Anna Maria Maccheroni, is opened. These lectures become the basis of her book Pedagogical Anthropology (1910).įirst Children’s House (Casa dei Bambini) is opened at 53 Via dei Marsi in the San Lorenzo district of Rome on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6. Lectures in anthropology and biology at the University of Rome’s school of education, incorporating her clinical observations of pupils in Rome’s elementary schools. Visits elementary schools to do anthropological research. She succeeds in fostering the development of some of the children to such an extent that they achieve the same results on state exams as typically developing schoolchildren.īegins a second degree-in education, experimental psychology, and anthropology-at the University of Rome. For two years, she experiments at the model school with materials to stimulate the senses. Lectureship in hygiene and anthropology at the teacher training college for women in Rome.Īppointed director of the Orthophrenic School, a model school for training teachers of children with developmental disabilities. Studies the writings of French doctors Itard and Séguin, who worked with disabled children.Īudits courses in pedagogy at the University of Rome reads all major works in educational philosophy over the past 200 years.Īttends women’s congress in London received by Queen Victoria. Represents Italy at the International Women’s Congress in Berlin delivers address on rights of working women, including equal pay for equal work.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Maria Montessori born on August 31 in Chiaravalle, Ancona province, Italy.Īttends a boys’ school in Rome, with a science/engineering emphasis.Īgainst opposition from her father, she pursues her wish to become a doctor.īecomes one of the first women to obtain a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Rome. Strangers to ourselves: Discovering the adaptive unconscious. The new children: Talks with Maria Montessori. Education: Its data and first principles.

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