Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 03 The Culture of Civility: The Cohesion of the Social Community Draws on a comparison of the characteristics of early childhood and early adolescence to comment on the culture of civility for adolescents. Discusses how Montessori adolescent psychology reiterates the role of the environment, the importance of work, the…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 09 Process Writing: Finding Flow in Adolescent Self-Expression Describes one teacher's approach to process writing, a mainstay for Montessori adolescent classrooms. The premise of the method is that everyone has the natural potential to write and that the emergence of the inner voice must be nurtured by extended…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 07 The Historical Genesis of the Parts of Speech This essay explores the history of the parts of speech and how individual acquisition of grammar may recapitulate history's discovery of the parts of speech and their related patterns. This history of grammar has been incorporated into a program called …
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 08 Cosmic Sense, Sensibility, and Written Expression: From Childhood to Adolescence Compares and connects the cosmic awareness emerging in the elementary classroom to adolescent cosmic sensibility embedded in the experience of the Hershey Montessori Farm School. Provides examples of students' poetry to support Montessori's concept of…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 06 Evolving Language: From Child to Human Species Examines similarities between human evolution of language and the development of child's language, including the gradual building of sentence, the use of gestures, and the introduction of symbols. Discusses principles of human uniqueness, brain development,…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 04 Dr. Montessori's Approach to Language in the Second Phase of the Child's Development Discusses exercises enabling teachers to help 6-year-olds complete the path to total reading and spontaneous writing. The foundation of the exercises is to help children analyze words into sounds; relate the symbols of the alphabet with the sounds using…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 05 Homo Loquens: Language in the Context of Cosmic Education Discusses language in the context of human development and civilization, examining a limitless field of studies and observations including the absorbent mind, the acquisition of language and grammatical structure, the linguistic capacity for abstract thought,…
