蒙特梭利的认知科学

Maria Montessori is among the most globally influential figures in the history of education, yet she remains almost entirely absent from the history of science. This paper argues that her absence is unwarranted, and that her work is best understood not as pedagogy but as the empirical investigation of cognitive development by a scientist trained in the positivist and evolutionary milieu of late nineteenth-century Rome. Drawing on Italian-language sources and untranslated early publications, we reconstruct her scientific formation, in particular her relationships with the anthropologist Giusepp