{"id":25589,"date":"2021-11-07T08:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=25589"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:03:09","slug":"25589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=25589","title":{"rendered":"The Best Weapon for Peace : Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. EDUCATION\u00a0FOR PEACE .<\/p>\n

A book review from The University of Wisconsin Press<\/a><\/p>\n

This book is by Erica Moretti (see below).\u2028<\/p>\n

\u201cInnovative and extremely well-documented. This volume reframes the life and work of Maria Montessori within the context of international peace studies. She deserves recognition as a pioneer who faced gender barriers and nevertheless almost won the Nobel Peace Prize. Moretti gracefully weaves portraits of historical topics into this narrative of Montessori’s intellectual life.\u201d\u2028\u2014Mary Gibson, John Jay College and the Graduate Center\u2013CUNY<\/p>\n

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The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870\u20131952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat is the best way to teach peace to children?<\/a> <\/p>\n

What is the relation between peace and education?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In\u00a0The Best Weapon for Peace, Erica Moretti reframes Montessori’s pacifism as the foundation for her educational activism, emphasizing her vision of the classroom as a gateway to reshaping society. Montessori education offers a child-centered learning environment that cultivates students’ development as peaceful, curious, and resilient adults opposed to war and invested in societal reform.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

Using newly discovered primary sources, Moretti examines Montessori’s lifelong pacifist work, including her ultimately unsuccessful push for the creation of the White Cross, a humanitarian organization for war-affected children. Moretti shows that Montessori’s educational theories and practices would come to define children’s rights once adopted by influential international organizations, including the United Nations. She uncovers the significance of Montessori’s evolving philosophy of peace and early childhood education within broader conversations about internationalism and humanitarianism.
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\nErica Moretti\u00a0<\/a> is an assistant professor of Italian at the Fashion Institute of Technology\u2013SUNY. She is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award in Scholarship and Creative Activities.<\/p>\n

The book is published as part of the following series:<\/p>\n

George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History<\/a>
\nSteven E. Aschheim, Skye Doney, Mary Louise Roberts, and David J. Sorkin, Series Editors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. EDUCATION\u00a0FOR PEACE . A book review from The University of Wisconsin Press This book is by Erica Moretti (see below).\u2028 \u201cInnovative and extremely well-documented. This volume reframes the life and work of Maria Montessori within the context of international peace studies. She deserves recognition as a pioneer who faced gender barriers and nevertheless almost … Continue reading The Best Weapon for Peace : Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,76],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-25589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-for-peace","category-global","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}