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Workhouse are place where the poor find ospitality and food that they have to make by working .

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The word “globalization” indicates the process of breaking down frontiers and the condition of mutual dependence that unites all the countries of the modern world in the economic , technological and cultural field .
The globalization implies a tendency to standardize the ways of life in every part of the world but at the same time , in the age of globalization , social inequality has increased in the world , that is , the distance between rich and poor.

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Childhood during Victorian Age was often a cruel experience .
Lots of children from poor classes and working classes who escaped from poverty were obliged to work in factories and mines or as domestic servant ; sometime lots of theme became criminals .

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Charles Dickens attacked the social evils of his time ; in particular he criticizes the institution of workhouse  and the people in charge of theme .
The condition of life in workhouse are squalid and miserable .

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Charles Dickens was one of the first authors to introduce the theme of education in his novels ; he believes in the extension of education to all the children .

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The main criticism to the Montessori’s method are :
=> the expensive cost of the school materials allows only rich families to this type of education ;
=> the lack of materials creates a competition between childrens ;
=> the difficult for children to transition from the Montessori’s method (no schooling , no rules and too freedom) into a traditional education .

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Montessori’s method is a child-centred educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood .
Montessori’s method sees the children as one who is naturally eager for knowledge and provides :
= Tailor-made environment => the environment must be organized in conditions favourable to the  psychophysical development of the children .
= Materials of development => the materials have the function of stimulating the senses of the child and developing logical and physical abilities ; this component values the human spirit and the development of physical , social , emotional and cognitive components of the children .
= Humble teacher => the teacher has the task of providing the children with the development materials and observing that they uses it in the correct way ; this component sees the teacher organizes the classroom to encourage independence , freedom and a sense of order .

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One of the most important Italian educators is Maria Montessori .

=> Maria Montessori was born in 1870 from a middle-class family (the father was Alessandro Montessori and the mother was Renilde Stoppani) ; she spends her youth time in Rome and in 1896 she graduates at the faculty of medicine and surgery with a thesis in psychiatry .

In the same years she participates in the women’s congress in Berlin in support of women’s emancipation .

=> In 1898 , after a relationship with her colleague Montesano , she gives birth Mario .

=> the first steps of the Maria Montessori’s career see her concentrated on children with disabilities .

=> Around 1900 Maria Montessori began a research at roman mental institution of Santa Maria Della Pietà where among the mentally-ill adults there were children with behavioural difficulties ; after numerous years of observation she creates a method (Maria Montessori , in the creation of her method , takes inspiration from the work of Itard and Séguin → they affirmed the possibility for children to become part of the community following a path of adequate education) of education for disabled children based on the idea that children have differentiated stages of growth in which they are more or less inclined to
learn  .

Following the surprising results obtained Maria Montessori (‘’Why normal children cannot profit from the same method ?’’) in 1907 (6 january 1907) opens in Rome the ‘’House of Children’’ where she proposes the method created for abnormal children as a basis for new educational proposals of normal children .

=> In 1913 Maria Montessori organizes the first international teaching training course (diffusion of the montessorian method) .

=> In consequence of the advent of fascism and the Second World War the ‘’House of Children’’ are closed and Maria Montessori leaves Italy to live in different European countries before returning to Italy .

=> Maria Montessori dies in 1952 .