About Montessori - Maria Montessori
Born in Chiaravalle in the Province of Ancona in 1870, Maria Montessori was the first woman to practise medicine in Italy, having graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Rome in 1896. Through her medical practice, Dr. Montessori came in direct contact with young children and began to study their development. Her intensive study led her to realise that the interaction between the child and his environment led to the construction of the child’s personality. Her approach to education stemmed from her own background in the sciences. And her thoroughness of study based on an observation of children from different backgrounds in several countries around the world led her to spot the universality of the laws of human development. In 1929, Dr. Montessori established the Association Montessori International (AMI) to continue her multi-layered work and protect its integrity. Today AMI has come a long way from that point and is a leading world body carrying forward Dr. Montessori’s work in the spirit in which it was conceived. Headquartered in Amsterdam in Dr. Montessori’s final home, AMI is an international body directing Training Courses all over the world – monitoring the standards of the course and issuing diplomas. AMI is affiliated to the United Nations through UNESCO and strives to further the rights of the child in society. AMI seeks to carry on the dialogue with experts from all fields of learning to further the understanding of human development, a dialogue that Dr. Montessori herself began nearly a hundred years ago. The primary objective of AMI - to maintain, propagate and further the ideas and principles of Dr. Maria Montessori for the full development of the human being - has won support round the world. Dr. Montessori continued her own observations throughout her life, widening and deepening her understanding until her death in 1952. |
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