BOOK REVIEW The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education and Children’s Rights
Erica Moretti, a professor of Italian at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, authored a recent intellectual biography of Maria Montessori, The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. In this book, Moretti writes in conversation with fellow European researc...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Montessori Research |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ku.edu/jmr/article/view/17113 |
| Summary: | Erica Moretti, a professor of Italian at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, authored a recent intellectual biography of Maria Montessori, The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. In this book, Moretti writes in conversation with fellow European researchers and builds on their work to present this English-language examination of Montessori’s pacifism that places her as a central figure in 20th-century global humanitarianism, disaster relief, peace activism, and social reform.
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| ISSN: | 2378-3923 |