BOOK REVIEW The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education and Children’s Rights
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https://doi.org/10.17161/jomr.v8i1.17113Keywords:
Montessori, peace education, children's rightsAbstract
Erica Moretti, a professor of Italian at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, authored a recent intellectual biography of Maria Montessori, The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. In this book, Moretti writes in conversation with fellow European researchers and builds on their work to present this English-language examination of Montessori’s pacifism that places her as a central figure in 20th-century global humanitarianism, disaster relief, peace activism, and social reform.
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