page_title: Philosophy of education
section_title: Maria Montessori
hierarchical_section_title: Philosophy of education / Normative educational philosophies / Social reconstructionism and critical pedagogy / Maria Montessori
caption_attribution_description: English: Italian educationist Maria Montessori (1870-1952) with American journalist Samuel Sidney McClure (1857–1949)
context_page_description: The philosophy of education examines the goals, forms, methods, and meaning of education. The term is used to describe both fundamental philosophical analysis of these themes and the description or analysis of particular pedagogical approaches. Considerations of how the profession relates to broader philosophical or sociocultural contexts may be included. The philosophy of education thus overlaps with the field of education and applied philosophy.
  For example, philosophers of education study what constitutes upbringing and education, the values and norms revealed through upbringing and educational practices, the limits and legitimization of education as an academic discipline, and the relation between educational theory and practice.
  In universities, the philosophy of education usually forms part of departments or colleges of education.
context_section_description: Date: 1870–1952
  The Montessori method arose from Dr. Maria Montessori's discovery of what she referred to as "the child's true normal nature" in 1907, which happened in the process of her experimental observation of young children given freedom in an environment prepared with materials designed for their self-directed learning activity. The method itself aims to duplicate this experimental observation of children to bring about, sustain and support their true natural way of being.
caption: Maria Montessori and Samuel Sidney McClure
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