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The Montessori Atlas is an open-access digital portal and a tool for research, study and international scientific collaboration.
The editorial board, chaired by Prof. Paola Trabalzini, includes Prof. Benedetto Scoppola of Rome’s Tor Vergata University; Proff. Giuseppe Tognon and Vincenzo Schirripa of Rome’s LUMSA University; and Dr. Rita Scocchera, technical manager of the Ministry of Education. Dr. Emma Perrone is the editorial board’s secretary.
The Montessori Atlas is the fruit of activities undertaken within the framework of the 2017 PRIN (see above p. 1) entitled “Maria Montessori from the Past to the Present. Reception and Implementation of Her Educational Method in Italy on the 150th Anniversary of Her Birth” and funded by Italy’s Ministry of Universities and Scientific Research. The project is supervised by the Research Unit of Rome’s LUMSA University in collaboration with Opera Nazionale Montessori (ONM) and the ITC team “Shazarch”. The Research Unit is coordinated by Prof. Paola Trabalzini and includes Proff. Cosimo Costa, Barbara De Serio (University of Foggia), Raniero Regni, Nicoletta Rosati, Vincenzo Schirripa, and Giuseppe Tognon.
In view of a reappraisal of Maria Montessori’s educational method in an historical and pedagogical perspective, and in line with the state of the art in ‘digital humanities,’ the Atlas includes a list of headwords and a number of digital repertories. It is divided into five sections: texts, images, historical journals, list of headwords, and an international bibliography.
In particular, the Montessori Atlas presents digital editions of two seminal works: the Critical Edition of Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica and Montessori. International Bibliography 1896-2000, both published by ONM in 2000 and 2001 respectively. They can be consulted in the digital portal with the help of a search engine that allows for individual and flexible searches.
The body of Maria Montessori’s work is broad and diverse, and the Montessori Atlas is an invaluable tool in a historical and critical perspective, developed in line with state-of-the-art digital humanities approaches to the accessibility of knowledge.
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This website was created under the supervision of Prof. P. Trabalzini, who is responsible for its management. LUMSA University can in no way be held liable for its contents.