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Sequence 1INTRODUCING OUR BOOK: THE DAYCARE DECISION by William and Wendy Dreskin The Day Care Deciswn with an introduction by Burton… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI, POVERTY, AND THE SPECIAL CHILD by Jon R. Osterkorn, Ph.D. With wit and substance, Dr. Osterkorn exposes the… |
Sequence 6Orthodox: A Study to Determine the Relative Improvement of the Preschool Child with Brain Damage Trained By One of Two Meth-… |
Sequence 9The importance of language was always in our thoughts. The majority of the children spoke no English, and there were seven… |
Sequence 8accelerated as a consequence of using the Montessori materials. Subjects were in their second year in three different… |
Sequence 17Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 2credits include the percussion soundtrack to the movie Apocalypse Now and percussion consultant to the Smithsonian Institution… |
Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Gebhardt-Seele's article is a transcript of a… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 2to accept the fact of evolution. Darwin lies beside Newton in Westmin- ster Abbey for this great contribution. His theory of… |
Sequence 2Jensen, J. & Kohlberg, L. (1966). Report of a ,-e,earch and denwnatrotion proj«t f01' culturolly duadvantaged… |
Sequence 4CHAPTER4 OTHER STUDIES OF CHILDREN OF LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS The following studies show the great variety of attempts to… |
Sequence 5minutes of testing each month. Results showed that the cultural model consistently outperformed the Montessori model and the… |
Sequence 7provided sensitive guidance. She continued to add to the environment and provided materials which children could independently… |
Sequence 4CHAPTER7 RESEARCH OF SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT Introduction Early and continuing criticism of Montessori preschool… |
Sequence 1THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled… |
Sequence 1Features WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY CLASS? by Polli Soholt Polli Scholt provides the primary teacher with practical… |
Sequence 3progress had become very impo1tant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Prior to that time people had thought more or… |
Sequence 28what makes the most sense. A lot also depends on how much faith you have in Ainsworth's seminal study of a quarter… |
Sequence 1CONSTRUCTING THE EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE: PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND CHILDREN by Antonia Lopez Th:is presenwt:ion on the school-… |
Sequence 2participating in job training programs. A large number of our children come from homes where one or more adults abuse drugs or… |
Sequence 3These families all have something in common - they are outside of the mainstream of their communities and have little, if any… |
Sequence 3• Thirteen million children in this country - one in five - live in poverty. (Almost one in four African American children are… |
Sequence 6• Department of Education • Department of Employment Services of the Cabinet for Human Resources (CHR) • Dep~ment for Health… |
Sequence 7• Children Now • California Tomorrow (Immigration law group) • Oakland Urban Strategies Council • Children's Lobby •… |
Sequence 11we can teach them something. The whole parent issue is tied up because if we really care about parents, then we're going… |
Sequence 4conuibuted to her being somewhat ostracized by the scientific and educational establishment and her being labeled as "… |
Sequence 5In the beginning our data consisted of interviews and questionnaires. To achieve greater precision we developed with time a… |
Sequence 3in combating analphabetism in adults. lrs resmctton in some areas is also interesting. Montessori education has been forbidden… |
Sequence 4be something unusual about this one. It is certainly not that it can offer empirical evidence of success in all those fields… |
Sequence 1DISCOVERY OF THE CHILD by HiJdegard Solzbacher D,: Montessori, who was a scientist and physician and not a trained educa-… |
Sequence 3Key Personnel • David Kahn, Project Director David Kahn holds a B.A. in fine arts with a minor in classics from the… |
Sequence 15Key Personnel • David Kahn, Project Director David Kahn holds a B.A. in fine arts with a minor in classics from the… |
Sequence 8Maps of the world and of the United States are of special interest to Arron. One day I gave him a blank paper map of the… |
Sequence 12A'II schools, . where it is hu- can concatenation of lines to their position. The drawings along the borders of the… |
Sequence 7around Germany among the people whose dialects still preserved some of the old forms, as some dialects do in many parts of… |
Sequence 8hadn't got. So he retired and went back to Germany. That is the scale. Of course, it is very, very important from a… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 16History cannot be written on the basis of official decisions and documents alone. If our descendants are to understand fully… |
Sequence 2Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected… |
Sequence 183. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
Sequence 1F~&A~--------------- MARIA MoNTFSSOm's CONTRIBUTION To nm CULTIVATION OF TIIE MATIIEMATICAL MIND by Mario M.… |
Sequence 2in order to study medicine. At that time, a woman who went among men, and especially among naked bodies which she cut to… |
Sequence 5Where are they located? One school is in Canada, one in Mexico, and 31 in the United States. Nine schools are east of the… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI AS AN AID TO LIFE by Hildegard Solzbacher Hildegard Solzbacher's direct encounter with Montessori values and… |
Sequence 167MONTESSORI AS AN AID TO LIFE by Hildegard Solzbacher Hildegard Solzbacher's direct encounter with Montessori values and… |
Sequence 10Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Karnes, M. et al. (1978). Immediate,… |
Sequence 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 1THE ORGANIZATION OF INTELLECTUAL WORK IN SCHOOL by Maria Montessori, MD Very closely related to the seminal writings o/The… |
Sequence 1THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD by Maria Montessori, MD This incredibly forceful article looks at the need for attention not only to… |
Sequence 1EDUCATION IN RELATION TO THE IMAGINATION OF THE LITTLE CHILD by Maria Montessori, MD Touching on the significance of… |
Sequence 9the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 2Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 13Let's take a brief look at someone else. Marian Dobbert and Betty Cooke (1987) at the University of Minnesota have taken… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 11visitors. One engaged us in Latin readings, another showed me how to play the guitar. When the refugees came from eastern… |
Sequence 4work. We talk about which ones are carnivores, which are herbivores, etc. When I observe the children doing this work I hear… |
Sequence 1EVALUATING EXPERIENCES IN ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Gebhardt-Seele asserts that the development of… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART 1 Now we get to the hardest part, because the first day I talked about… |
Sequence 8Unfortunately, there are big differences in kids in terms of how autotelic they are. We have followed, for instance, just… |
Sequence 19evolving society around us. That can be done through things like education, through the program you are doing, but also… |
Sequence 13excavating ruins and describing how to build. The techniques, the skills, the information about building and sculpting were… |
Sequence 17attempt to converse with him on an adult-to-adult level, rather than as a child to a parent. On the flip side, I hold dear… |
Sequence 4some of them at work and they do things that I haven't found a way to talk about yet, which tie them to Sylvia Ashton… |
Sequence 5the same elements that you see in Montessori and Sylvia Ashton Warner. For example, in all of these approaches is a deep… |
Sequence 8extrasomatically, that is, outside the body. So what does it mean? Well, you can think of memes as being any kind of… |
Sequence 6exploitation somewhat irrelevant. If it costs just $3 to rent a Pocahontas video, do you really care if Michael Eisner made $… |
Sequence 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 10want to use that word superiority, but Greek military prowess surely is a sign of cultural dynamism. In addition, diversified… |
Sequence 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 19most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 5var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 11After he died, I thought, "Well, you can fumigate. That will kill the gumnosis. You can get a new root stock. That… |
Sequence 15great co-ops: Sun-Maid raisin growers is a good example, though it is a cooperative that I think many years ago sold out its… |
Sequence 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 2"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 2THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURES: THE MONTESSORI CONTRIBUTION by Winfried Bohm translated by Devan Barker In this masterful… |
Sequence 7Montessori also speaks of the environment in a more inclusive sense when she speaks of a trinity made up of the child, the… |
Sequence 13community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 16student's preferred form, such as a scrapbook, a story, an annotated photo album, or a timeline. Since writing these… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
Sequence 2phenomenon have more disas- trous effects than in education. Teachers have the best inten- tions, but best intentions kill… |
Sequence 10birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is characterized by this: with… |
Sequence 2DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 10AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 1DOING WHAT THE HEART ALREADY KNOWS A PERSONAL STORY OF THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT by Gertrud Mueller Nelson A delightful memoir… |
Sequence 2Our mother, 1 five years in America and fresh to the ways of Ameri- can Catholicism, was not daunted by being a woman. A lay… |
Sequence 1SCIENCE AND FAITH: MARIA MONTESSORI' S PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION by Robert G. Buckenmeyer Dr. Buckenmeyer' sarray of… |
Sequence 2Psychologists, on the other hand, were traditionally foot-bound, over- burdened with statistical evidence, viewing "… |
Sequence 3the child from scholastic slavery nor, even more, from annoy- ing results. The same Froebe I, whose education of children was… |
Sequence 7nation, she rejects Froebel's way of doing so on the basis of fantasy because, as she says, it forces the child to &… |
Sequence 11Kingdom of Heaven." Now let us picture among those to whom these words were spoken, an ardent, worshipping soul, who… |
Sequence 13the teacher and the scientist an Apostolic spirit. This Apostolic spirit sees not only the spirit of study about the child but… |
Sequence 14life, the first flowers of affection, of gentleness, of spontaneous love for righteousness which perfume the souls of such… |
Sequence 15in the child an epiphany of human nature, a Jerusalem as a city of God, as she states in the introduction to Education for a… |
Sequence 16this Ezekielian, Christlike, and" Apostolic" spirit while teaching chil- dren. 4 This, of course, means that… |