Taking Dictation
Maria Montessori's Writing Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9816949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University), Suzanne Stewart‐Steinberg (John Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-60 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001458580604000104 |
| OpenAlex | W2064843122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay is constitutes a reading of Maria Montessi's 1909 text Il metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini, the founding text of the Italian and international Montessori movement. I claim that Montessori's writing method is central to this pedagogical enterprise, since it highlights two fundamental aspects of the Montessorian method. First, it is founded in a notion of the human subject understood as a constitutive absence, as is made clear, I argue, through a pedagogical relationship that is crucially anti-mimetic and based on the “imitation of nothingness.” Second, I relate this anti-mimesis to Montessori's desire to found a writing method in what she calls the “materialization of the abstract” in and through the disciplining of the body's senses. Constitutive absence and graphic presence, I argue, are closely dependent in her method, and as such place Montessori within a wider European and American debate about the body as the automatic producer of graphic signs. In a final section, I interrogate the uses and abuses of the Montessorian method by the fascist regime and the latter's own attempt at devising a pedagogy for the new fascist subject
Art · Dictation · Epistemology · Imitation · Linguistics · Literature · Nothing · Reading (process · Section (typography · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Education Methods and Practices · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Philosophy · Psychology · Scientific and Historical Analyses · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |