Maria Montessori e “Il bambino in famiglia”: per una pedagogia della prima infanzia come pedagogia della liberazione

The paper focus on a re-reading of Montessori’s Il bambino in famiglia (1923), aimed at highlighting her contribution to early childhood education, through her fight against child’s repression into the domestic environment. The original feature of this perspective can be identified in the interest of considering pedagogy as the fundamental science to study early child education in order to promote child’s liberation, according to a new approach founded since the Modern Age.