83

This article aims to contribute to scholarship on the internationalisation of the Montessori Method. Training courses were central to Maria Montessori’s international impact. Two case studies of training offered by Montessori in collaboration with Catholic women religious are used to demonstrate a Catholic internationalisation of her Method. The first considers that with the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, in Rome between 1910 and 1914. The second, that with the Religious of the Assumption, in London from 1921 until Montessori’s death in 1952. More specifically, the article shows the significance of their classes as demonstration classes for Montessori’s international training courses. Participants of many nationalities and beliefs observed them, facilitating the initial and continued global implementation of the Method. The convent Superiors also achieved their own objectives.