Synopsis

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was a psychiatrist at a time when the profession was not open to women. She invented the most advanced and innovative teaching method of the time, a method that underpins modern pedagogy.
The Method has spread across the world. It is used in countries, cultures and contexts where its application would have been unimaginable when it was devised, while remaining true to its founder’s principles and methods. The Netherlands is above all one of the countries where she trained many of the teachers who went on to spread the method across the world: Albania, Kenya..