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The NAMTA Montessori Bibliography Online
Thousands of Montessori sources at your fingertips.

NAMTA's online Bibliography, compiled by D. Renee Pendleton, is an up-to-date, searchable online version of our 800-page NAMTA Montessori Bibliography and Research Guide (the print version is now out of print). It is a useful tool for parent education ideas, research projects, school newsletters, teacher development, and the study of Montessori theory, methods, and history. Copies of most articles listed in the Bibliography may be obtained from NAMTA. (Articles are not available online for viewing or download.)

  • Web-based database
  • More than 18,000 citations
  • Montessori sources in English 1909-present
  • Updated quarterly with the newest Montessori publications
  • Categorized by more than 300 keywords
  • Simply click on a keyword and see all entries on that topic
  • Or specify up to three search terms from fields such as year, author, book title, article title, journal title
  • Once you locate articles of interest, order copies from the NAMTA Archives at a nominal cost of $0.50 per page plus shipping. Refer to the ordering instructions on the Bibliography website. Minimum order $10. Allow up to 4 weeks for delivery of articles for most orders.

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Montessori Research Books

Montessori: The Science behind the Genius
by Angeline Stoll Lillard

Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori: Current scientific research provides astounding support for her major insights. Lillard presents the research concerning eight insights that are foundational to Montessori education and describes how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom. In reading this book, parents and teachers alike will develop a clear understanding of what happens in a Montessori classroom and, more important, why it happens and why it works. Amid the clamor for evidence-based education, this book presents the studies that show how children learn best, makes clear why many traditional practices come up short, and describes an ingenious alternative that works.

Angeline Stoll Lillard is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. She was awarded the Developmental Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award in 1992 and its Boyd McCandless Award for Distinguished Early Career Contribution in 1999. She is also the recipient of a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award for 2005-2006.

Oxford University Press. 404 pages, references, index. (2005)

See also the accompanying DVD.

Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius
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A Comparison of Montessori and Traditional Middle Schools:
Motivation, Quality of Experience, and Social Context
The centerpiece of this Summer 2003 NAMTA Journal (vol. 28, no. 3) describes the results of research conducted by Dr. Kevin Rathunde of the University of Utah. Students in Montessori middle schools reported more positive motivation and experience than a matched sample of students attending traditional middle schools.

Click here to view/download free PDF file of the lead article. Requires free Adobe Reader software.

Or purchase a copy of the entire journal issue (84 pages, including an introduction and responses to the study by leading Montessorians):

A Comparison of Montessori & Traditional Middle Schools
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Montessori Research: Analysis in Retrospect

A valuable companion to the Montessori Bibliography is this compendium of Montessori research compiled by Dr. Mary Maher Boehnlein. It contains a summary and analysis of significant Montessori research from 1914 to 1988. (The compendium is now out of print; photocopies of the complete text are available.)

Research Compendium: Montessori Research: Analysis in Retrospect
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Back Issues of The NAMTA Journal

Back issues still in print are available at $7.00 each, except for special editions. Click here for the full list of back issues, with ordering information.

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