La pazienza dell’ascolto
Scritti di Grazia Honegger Fresco
A book that brings back the voice of a teacher who taught, with patience and courage, that education begins with the gaze and with the silence that welcomes.
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Il Quaderno Montessori
The review was founded in 1984 by Grazia Honegger Fresco and later co-edited with Mrs Lia De Pra Cavalleri until 2017. Many of the 133 issues are no longer available.
Grazia Honegger Fresco
Grazia Honegger Fresco (Roma, January 6th 1929 – Castellanza, September 30th 2020) was a Montessori pedagogist. During her long life she worked tirelessly in favour of a nonviolent and non-judgmental education, attentive to the specific needs of each single child, especially since birth and during the first three years of life. She promoted the opening of schools and training opportunities in Italy and abroad, addressing herself with sensibility and precision to educators, teaches, parents and services to infancy.
She was awarded by Unicef in 2008 and she dedicated two important biographies to Adele Costa Gnocchi and Maria Montessori, of whom she was a student. Her work and thoughts are collected in the many books and articles that she had published, in the review 'Il Quaderno Montessori' and in the Archive that is being established in her name in Castellanza.
Covers
They always had different hues and they featured children's drawings, with a few exceptions.
For example
inverno 2006-2007no. 92Issues n. 92 and 93 featured previously unpublished photographs of Maria Montessori, to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first Children’s Home.
inverno 2008-2009no. 100Issue n. 100 shows a collage made by children in the class led by Vanda Mazzarello.
inverno 2011-2012no. 112Issue n. 112 shows a small tree drawn on the wall of a cooperative of Indian women weavers, adopted as its logo by the Asnada association.
primavera 2016no. 129Issue n. 129 shows the symbol of the universe, drawn by the Japanese Zen master Sengai.
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