Edouard Seguin

Edouard Seguin (January 12, 1812 - October 28, 1880) was a physician and educationist who was born in Clamecy, Nièvre. He is remembered for his work with children having cognitive impairments in France and the United States.

He studied at the Collège d’Auxerre and the Lycée St Louis in Paris, and from 1837 studied and worked under Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who was an educator of deaf-mute individuals, that included the celebrated case of Victor of A...

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Montessori Sensorial Materials are materials used in the Montessori classroom that help the child develop his or her 5 senses. The materials are designed to help the child refine tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory senses. This is the next level of difficulty after those of practical life. This article is designed to explain several of the Montessori Sensorial materials used in the classroom environment.

Sensorial Materials, like many other materials in the Montessori cla...

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Inclusion in the context of education is the practice, in which students with special educational needs spend most or all of their time with non-disabled students. Implementation of this practice varies; schools can use it for selected students with mild to severe special needs.^[1][2]

Description

Inclusive education differs from previously held notions of ‘integration’ and ‘mainstreaming’, which tended to be concerned principally with disability and ‘special educational needsâ...

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Maria Montessori
Born	August 31, 1870(1870-08-31) Chiaravalle (Ancona), Italy
Died	May 6, 1952 (aged 81) Noordwijk, Netherlands
Resting place	Noordwijk, Netherlands
Nationality	Italian
Education	University of Rome La Sapienza Medical School
Occupation	Physician and educator
Known for	Founder of the Montessori method of education
Religious beliefs	Catholic
Children	Mario Montessori Sr.

Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician, edu...

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Montessori method

The Montessori method is an educational approach to children based on the research and experiences of Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori (1870–1952). It arose essentially from Dr. Montessori's discovery of what she referred to as "the child's true normal nature" in 1907 ^[1], which happened in the process of her experimental observation of young children given freedom in an environment prepared with materials designed for their self-directed learning activity.^[...
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