Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, credited to Maria Montessori, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of DR. MONTESSORI'S OWN HANDBOOK, by MARIA MONTESSORI. Read by Phil Chenevert. This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for 3 to 6 year olds. It is a short work, intended as a manual for teachers and parents, detailing the materials used as well as her philosophy in developing them. "As a result of the widespread interest that has been taken in my method of child education, certain books have been issued, which may appear to the general reader to be authoritative expositions of the Montessori system. I wish to state definitely that the present work, the English translation of which has been authorized and approved by me, is the only authentic manual of the Montessori method ..." M. Montessori in the Preface (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
• Author credits: Maria Montessori
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 2:43:23

Catalogue topics

• children
• absorbent mind
• montessori method
• materials

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:40
2. 01 - Introductory Remarks — 11:30
3. 02 - A “Children's House” — 10:35
4. 03 - The Method — 2:59
5. 04 - Motor Education — 12:30
6. 05 - Sensory Education — 54:05
7. 06 - Language and Knowledge of the World — 10:31
8. 07 - Freedom — 5:08
9. 08 - Writing — 21:54
10. 09 - The Reading of Music — 5:28
11. 10 - Arithmetic — 15:41
12. 11 - Moral Factors — 10:25

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