Montessori education works in every setting for the success of each child by supporting their innate desire to learn while rigorously developing their academic, moral, social and emotional skills, all of which create a fully capable individual.
Montessori was a pioneering scientist and educator, who developed the approach based on the development of the whole human being. Her work has been studied and developed for many years and is successfully evidenced today in neuroscience and research into the executive functioning skills of children and adults. Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) connects teachers, trainers, parents and researchers to world class research on the outcomes and impact of Montessori education, fostering discussion, collaboration and providing resources for parents and teachers interested in the approach.
The following are a selection of links to Montessori research and references.
- AMI Communities of Practice
- AMI Website Quote Library - organised by topic
- Montessori 150 Website Daily Quotes - searchable database with optional downloadable poster/social media graphics
- Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC) - the world's most widely used index to educational-related literature
- Montessori Science - Dr Angeline Lillard - professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Montessori: The Science behind the Genius
- American Montessori Society - Montessori Research Library
- Journal of Montessori Research advances knowledge of Montessori education through both empirical research studies and critical reviews of the literature available in an open access forum
- University of Hartford Harrison Libraries - home to the Center for Montessori Studies, an intellectual community co-founded by researchers and practitioners contributing to Montessori education and the broader implications of Dr. Maria Montessori’s theories on human development, learning, and social reform
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Montessori education and philosophy, in both the public and private sector, through diverse research approaches and collaborations
- National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector - building a public Montessori network of practitioners, researchers, parents, and leaders
- Historical Montessori Archives at AMI - email requests
- North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) Archive - online shop
- E.M. Standing Collection on the Montessori Method - contains correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts, essays, speech texts, photographs, files, clippings, ephemera, sound recordings and publications. Materials document the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori as seen through the writings and correspondence of E.M. Standing.
- Scientific research on Montessori for all (English and French) - site supported by the Institut Superieur Maria Montessori (ISMM) and Public Montessori
- Polo Biblioteca della Regione Lazio (Italian)
- Grazia Honegger Fresco (Italian)
- Montessori-Zentrum Münster (German)
- Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) Resource Center - audiovisual resources
- Montessori Europe MERGe working group - aims to build bridges between academic researchers and practitioners
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations - advanced research and scholarship, free to find, free to use
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge
- EBSCO - provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds
- Harvard Library Rinascimento Online Dissertations
- British Library EThOS - e-theses online service
- Search Oxford Libraries Online SOLO
- Archives Portal Europe