Research Sheds Light on Montessori’s Collaboration with Mussolini
Maria Montessori is primarily known for her revolutionary model of education and learning. A new book reveals that she was also an influential cultural critic during the interwar years. It furthermore highlights Montessori’s decade-long, but largely ignored, cooperation with Benito Mussolini.The book, written in Swedish by Christine Quarfood, professor of history of ideas at the University of Gothenburg, is titled Montessoris pedagogiska imperium: kulturkritik och politik i mellankrigstidens Montessorirörelse. The book brings the reader back to the early 1900s and Italian doctor Maria