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Sequence 3• Montessori trained and certified teachers and administrators representing both the Association Montessori Internationale… |
Sequence 440 nation's first attempt to involve parents in the education deci- sion-making process. • Preschool Parents… |
Sequence 2country's and state's histories. American leaders of the 19th century believed that no nation could survive, let… |
Sequence 3ent cultures. This experience can help to diminish prejudice and cultural stereotyping by establishing personal relationships… |
Sequence 11love, patience, and individual bonding with the children needed to be there because the adolescent was in a sense… |
Sequence 21'Aquinas, T. $1<1111110 Theologica. Thinl Part (Suppl.) Q. 4!l, a.:{. Reprinted in Ci,il<l a11d Frrmily. 16… |
Sequence 2Pwn7>kin Moonshine. Tudor, Tasha. Henry Z. Walck, David McKay, New York, 1938. Scmu, 's Favo1·ite Story. Aoki,… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 6stand. They would bring this back and take another which contained other pictures to which to apply other names. Experience… |
Sequence 6If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest… |
Sequence 4have little to do with science for science's sake, but rather is an expres- sion of a philosophical view which in turn… |
Sequence 10This not to abandon the scientific rigors of the material to be pre- sented to the child. Montessori is quite clear in that… |
Sequence 2essential principles, and which he believed were an improvement over her materials. These materials are not described, however… |
Sequence 16Fair" Picture Vocabulary Test for intellectual functioning; d) the Cin- cinnati Autonomy Battery (CAB) by Banta which… |
Sequence 5The children were from middle income families and were restricted to four-year-olds attending school for the first time and… |
Sequence 4cient, not relying on servants to do everything for them. They want their children to become responsible leaders who can… |
Sequence 3friendship that results from sharing a noble human good. From this social learning community (referred to by Robert M.… |
Sequence 5What is powerful-the most powerful link in Montessori work-is the integration of science and myth-for here within the story of… |
Sequence 5function of the child with regard to the formation of the human personal- ity (p. 15). Oui· civilization has not yet devised… |
Sequence 2Childhood constructs with what it finds. If the material is poor, the construc- tion is also poo1: As far as civilization is… |
Sequence 119. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Mcu;kin.ery of Nature: The Living World Around Us - And How It Works (New York: Simon and Schuster,… |
Sequence 153. Follow up each answer with a further question which itself has more than one answer. 4. A class discussion ideally has a… |
Sequence 5"The readings we used were numerous and of great variety: fairy tales, short stories, anecdotes, novels, historical… |
Sequence 12the whole man completely for manhood. Manliness implied the training of hand, head and heart. The pw-pose of education is not… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND CHILDREN PLACED AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE by Christopher Harris Mr. Harris' short but… |
Sequence 912. Wilson, Edward 0. Biaphilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). 13. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 51. The movement area is equipped with a thin covered mattress with kiosks and bars the babies use for pulling up - there may… |
Sequence 1THE HAND IN EDUCATION a971) by A. M. Joosten One aspect of Montessori educatwn that sets it apart from some other… |
Sequence 4the impression that after a while nothing "new" is seen. Deeper pene- tration and more discoveries require… |
Sequence 10Brown's search for the Holy Grail of thoughcfulness in school settings involved hours of interviews and detailed case… |
Sequence 5the prevention task to the schools. This is madness! What we need is a reform movement with a better sense of where we are… |
Sequence 12References Atwell, N. (ed.). (1989). Coming to know: Writing to I.earn in the intermediate grades. Ponsmouth, NH. Heinemann… |
Sequence 5methods of such ingenuity to their offspring. Thinking began in earnest with the teaching of chinking. As a result, our… |
Sequence 2she and her students would look better. This has not achieved a meaningful improvement in instruction or achievement. Those… |
Sequence 8We could cooperatively establish a curriculum using as a guide the student's goals, interests, and needs. Coming out of a… |
Sequence 10prepare the adolescent by continuing the Montessori emphasis on the inte- grated process of personality and learning based in… |
Sequence 2"Man," said Maria Montessori, "is overcome with hatred and does not obey the laws of nature. Nobler… |
Sequence 2Like the God of Genesis, creation theology looks at che whole of creation and sees chat it is good. Traditional Christianity,… |
Sequence 3A theology which makes redemption its primary theme will have a vested interest in man's sin and weakness, fur if these… |
Sequence 1MO~ORI AND THE BAHA'f FAITH* by Barbara Hacker The life and work of Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952), scientist and… |
Sequence 7which we have now come in constructing our scale of character states is thus concerned with decision or choice respecting both… |
Sequence 18Another activity for writing practice is ro search through all the sand- paper lerrei:s co find those char start with the same… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 6books are not enough. Mario Montessori Sr. reminded us of this when he noted how difficult it is to help children understand… |
Sequence 9kitchen help, which makes che school a place where our children can grow spirirually. A loving atcicude must pervade the… |
Sequence 5occupation and Montessori refers to as work of the land. Dr. Montessori writes: ... therefore work on the land is an… |
Sequence 10viva] of the fittest demands, safeguarding tradition in order to under- stand how co achieve social and technical skills… |
Sequence 7Direct application of ideas conceived through observations and interpre- tation of the work of children is curriculum… |
Sequence 5see that I have a responsibility to the students to help them to be prepared for various weather forms particularly with a… |
Sequence 4"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intel- lect; we apprehend it just as much by… |
Sequence 10develop far-reaching programs of study for all who wish to participate. In the following four sections are described two real… |
Sequence 10have shown, for instance, that the gains recent Head Start graduates show in scores on intelligence and socio-emotional tests… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
Sequence 23Hopkins, W.G. and Brown, M.C. 0984). Development of Nerve Cells and their Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity… |
Sequence 10creation of a public space; Dewey talked consistently about an "articulate public" bringing a public sphere… |
Sequence 2What are the new frameworks and Montessori telling us? Mathematical reasoning, problem solving, communication, and connections… |
Sequence 4and writing. Teachers have written about their experiences, anecdotaJly and informally, through diaries, logs, and narratives… |
Sequence 16Ardini, R. 0979). Feminism and science. In R. Arditti, P. Brennan, & S. Cavrak (Eds.), Science and liberation. Boston… |
Sequence 17Miller, J. B. 0 976). Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon. Montagu, A. (1986, August 7). Qtd. in Woodstock Times… |
Sequence 1F~----------------- MONTESSORI AND LEARNING DISABIUTIES by Sylvia 0. Richardson American education is currently under attack… |
Sequence 44Many responses are broad or vague, and as such leave a ve1y wide range for interpretation. Some may well be developmental… |
Sequence 12References Boehm, W. (1973). The actuality of the Montessori method in the light of modern preschool education. Around the… |
Sequence 5multiplicity of forms (myths, legends, folklore, poems, nonfiction, short stories, novels) with self-confidence intact,… |
Sequence 8est power of the universe, with God. The word inspiration derives from the Latin spirare, "to breathe"; its… |
Sequence 8aristocrat who, in an act of tremendous condescen- sion, offers himself to his social inferior. It is an in- credible… |
Sequence 20Haberman, M. (1991). The pedagogy of poverty versus good teaching. Phi Delta K.appan, 73(4). Hannaford, I. (1994, Spring).… |
Sequence 52aristocrat who, in an act of tremendous condescen- sion, offers himself to his social inferior. It is an in- credible… |
Sequence 104est power of the universe, with God. The word inspiration derives from the Latin spirare, "to breathe"; its… |
Sequence 107multiplicity of forms (myths, legends, folklore, poems, nonfiction, short stories, novels) with self-confidence intact,… |
Sequence 156References Boehm, W. (1973). The actuality of the Montessori method in the light of modern preschool education. Around the… |
Sequence 4Life is a series of weanings-weaning from the womb, weaning from the breast, weaning from parents' bed or crib, weaning… |
Sequence 9community level where solutions need to be found for the more appro- priate management of the landscape. By beginning with… |
Sequence 1COMMITMENT TO PEACE by Renilde Montessori In the coming weeks, Renilde Montessori will assume duties as head of the… |
Sequence 10unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional… |
Sequence 9asked to play or sing the next line and create a variation based upon it. In both examples, the second "intelligence-… |
Sequence 10members of other societies, performances of the non-Western subjects improves dramatically. While being "culture-… |
Sequence 18mances on these two very different measures. The Stanford-Binet was administered by an independent psychometrician to 19 of… |
Sequence 8opmentof which is theimportantthing. The chapter of Frames of Mind (Gardner 1983 / 1993) that gets overlooked is the… |
Sequence 5Praxis refers to the different uses of words. Praxis involves aware- ness of different parts of speech, for example,open the… |
Sequence 10Montessori insists on constructing an environment for the child in which the child can be active, a prepared environment with… |
Sequence 15games were once part of natural play, and there is nothing to replace their contribution to neurological organization for the… |
Sequence 10One other factor to mention briefly is the quality of parent- adolescent interaction that I saw and heard about after two… |
Sequence 12The "Blue Plane" of Maturity The plane of maturity, 18 to 24, corresponds more or less to university life,… |
Sequence 6In substance, they reflect the general attitude of 19th-cen- tury science, which felt justi- fied in proclaiming, in all… |
Sequence 24element in playparks and adventure playgrounds. In new or redevel- oped school buildings, field facilities should be provided… |
Sequence 2something or get some assistance in a store, I am reminded of this. It seems that adults think that if teenagers are in a… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Pan- theon Books. Coles, R. (1990). The spiritual life of… |
Sequence 25chemicals is obviously an attempt to recapture some of the qualities of optimal experience by artificial means. Alcohol,… |
Sequence 4tion becomes possible if there are activities that are appropriate to the child. Activities need to catch interest, bring… |
Sequence 5As educators, we have several things to do: 1. Limit everything that is not "person." The right limits are… |
Sequence 7about intellectual development at all, but deal more broadly with the kind of people we hope children will turn out to be,… |
Sequence 58Kohn, A. (1992) No contest: The case against competition (Rev. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Kohn, A. (1993). Punished by… |
Sequence 6principle is embodied in the Cyl- inder Block, where there are ten cylinders and ten holes into which they fit. The… |
Sequence 4another more spiritual realm. Maria Montessori said, "creative work ... lifts man up from earth and transports him… |
Sequence 8But the mind must have something to express. Imagination rests on facts and on information which have accumulated in some… |
Sequence 9many choices for self-expres- sion. Different children are attracted to different forms of art. How many of us engage the… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 7What, then, is the central human issue of culture, viewed scien- tifically, within the Epic of Evolution? It is the issue of… |
Sequence 7agency of genes, which contain the program for the development of structures and functions within the biological organism.… |