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Table of Contents
a nnet te ha ines: spok esperson for montessor i va lues, schola rship, a… |
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Guest Editor: David Kahn
Editorial Board
Kay Baker PhD, AMI director of training at the… |
Foreword
This journal is a testimony to Annette Haines. Annette,
who died in July 2017, was a leader in the Montessori… |
Part One
Foundations for Montessori Reform
Introduction by David Kahn
1. Glossary of Montessori Terms, 2001
2. Embodying… |
Glossary of Montessori Terms
Any science has it own vocabulary and terminology and
the Montessori method is no exception.… |
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cycle of activity
Little children, when engaged in an activity which interests
them, will… |
Glossary of Montessori Terms
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isolation of a difficulty
Before giving a presentation, the Montessori teacher… |
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be effective, it must be done slowly and exactly, step by step,
and with a minimum of words… |
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Embodying the Montessori Challenge as a Totality:
Understanding Refinement Across the Planes… |
Embodying the Montessori Challenge as a Totality
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that drives the selective retention of functional nerve
connections… |
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second plane
Researchers from UCLA, the National Institute of Mental
Health, and McGill… |
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Embodying the Montessori Challenge as a Totality
brains undergo profound changes that are not only a
necessary part… |
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references
Campbell, Bernard G. Humankind Emerging. Boston: Little, Brown,
1982.
Grazzini… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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Optimal Developmental Outcomes:
The Social, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional… |
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in regard to the adolescent) were clearly hypothetical.
Regardless, she believed these ideas… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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The First Plane of Development (0-6 years)
by Annette M. Haines
introduction
If… |
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Thus, the apparent passivity of the infant belies the
profound work in which the infant is… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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to respect the work of others. They can now wait patiently
for an object whereas… |
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• patience and the ability to share
• respect for others
• a willingness to abide by rules… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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Misflavour is “pathological” and comes from misfortune,
trauma, or mishap. The… |
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routine of life itself, by the little decisions of daily living
begun in early childhood. “… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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The acquisition of spoken language is perhaps the most
remarkable creative act of… |
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thought, internal equilibrium, and sustained interest.”
The practical activities focus… |
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The activities young children are most enthusiastic about
are those that are necessary for… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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references
Haines, Annette M. “The Nonverbal Lessons of Attachment.” AMI… |
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The Second Plane of Development (6-12 years)
Kay Baker
Thinking about human development… |
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knowledge is placed within the context of all that it is
possible to know: “Knowledge,… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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mor al development in the second plane
The moral dimension concerns relating to,… |
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It is worth emphasizing the interplay of the cognitive
and moral realms. Montessori states… |
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Another support to the emotional dimension of
development is the patience of the… |
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The Third Plane of Development (12 - 18)
David Kahn
introduction
Since Maria Montessori’s… |
Optimal Developmental Outcomes
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recognition of the individual’s contribution usually
follows. The adolescent’s… |
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The web of life (interdependencies) provides a cognitive
framework. When occupations… |
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continually opening new careers, and at the same time closing
or revolutionizing the… |
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references
The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH:… |
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Equal Opportunity and the Montessori Magnet School
No man is free
who is not master of… |
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1. Confusion. Disconnecting and unrelating everything results
in an incoherent understanding… |
Equal Opportunity and the Montessori Magnet School
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our impotence....We have no conscience in the humanistic
sense,… |
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Children have the right, just as adults have the right,
to be treated as ends rather than… |
Montessori and Assessment:
Some Issues of Assessment and Curriculum Reform
introduction
This study investigates the impact… |
Montessori and Assessment
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at all for the tests and of the half that did, no more than
several periods a year were… |
Universal Interest Levels in Early Childhood:
Montessori’s Theory of Sensitive Periods
Even though this dissertation was… |
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Thus the primary quality of early development
which sets it apart from later learning is “… |
Universal Interest Levels in Early Childhood
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the education par excellence.” (1892/1985, p. 95.) Montessori,
who… |
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Montessori offers a model of developmental planes
creating evolving cognitive structures… |
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references
Alexander, Entwisle, and Dauber. 1993. “First-Grade Classroom
Behavior: Its… |
Part Two
Prepared Paths to Culture: Beginning Passages of Ascent
Introduction by David Kahn
1 The Development of Movement… |
Prepared Paths to Culture: Beginning Passages of Ascent
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My vision of the future is no longer people taking exams and… |
The Development of Movement
and Its Educational Counterpart in the Montessori Primary Class
Movement is that which… |
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breathing.7 The newborn has also inherited a number of
basic reflex action patterns, some of… |
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Cajal and his associates, in the early part of the last century,
presented evidence that… |
The Development of Movement
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the part of the child. This “point of contact” between internal
and external reality is… |
Control and Coordination of Movement
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Control and Coordination of Movement
All activities of Practical Life help the… |
Control and Coordination of Movement
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If there is spirituality, it is in the child. If there is a soul, it is in
the… |
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The Acquisition of Spoken Language: The Nebula Hypothesis
Dr Montessori’s views on the child… |
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often sounds like a foreign language. Out of this… |
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claim of innate linguistic capacities and that “efforts to
account for the mysteries of… |
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references
Au, Terry Kit-Fong. (1985). Children ‘s Word-… |
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The Formation of Mind:
Language, Learning, and Logic in Early Childhood
This speech was… |
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prime example. Positron Emissions Tomography (… |
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under six is decisive. Whatever abilities the child constructs
will remain incarnate in him… |
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pieces of our experience and consists of the… |
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auditory stage: listening
Auditive and spoken language are two different
developments.… |