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Angela K. Murray, Eva-Maria Tebano Ahlquist, Maria K. McKenna, and Mira Debs, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 585 pp.

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Angela K. Murray, Eva-Maria Tebano Ahlquist, Maria K. McKenna, and Mira Debs, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 585 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2024

Barbara Beatty*
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Wellesley College, MA

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3 On fidelity, resistance, scripted instruction, and school reform, see, among many others, Sarason, Seymour B., The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1971)Google Scholar; Elmore, Richard, School Reform from the Inside Out: Policy, Practice, and Performance (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2004)Google Scholar; David Cohen, “A Revolution in One Classroom: The Case of Mrs. Oublier,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1990), 311-29; Tyack, David and Cuban, Larry, Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)Google Scholar; and Barbara Beatty, “The Dilemma of Scripted Instruction: Comparing Teacher Autonomy, Fidelity, and Resistance in the Froebelian Kindergarten, Montessori, Direct Instruction, and Success for All,” Teachers College Record 113, no. 3 (March 2011), 395-430.

4 Hess, Frederick, “Bezo’s Bold Bet on Montessori,” Forbes, March 14 , 2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2023/03/14/bezoss-bold-bet-on-montessori-preschool/?sh=1d41f3f61e3aGoogle Scholar

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6 Debs, Diverse Families, Desirable Schools, 47-50, 58-61, 75, 84.

7 Wollons, Roberta, “The Black Forest in a Bamboo Garden: Missionary Kindergartens in Japan, 1868-1912,” History of Education Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 1-35CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Rukmini Ramachandran and Mira Debs, “Chapter 40: Montessori Education in India,” in Murray et al., Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education, 367.