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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 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 2credits include the percussion soundtrack to the movie Apocalypse Now and percussion consultant to the Smithsonian Institution… |
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 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 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 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 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 2Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected… |
Sequence 2CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS OF Anol.ESCENTS: A COMPARATIVE STIJDY compiled by John Long Almost eve,y Montessori seconda,y… |
Sequence 19Hellbrugge, T. 0979, Spring). Early social development and proficiency in later life. Tbe NAMTA Q11arter(y, 4<.2), 6-14… |
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 10Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Karnes, M. et al. (1978). Immediate,… |
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 13Let's take a brief look at someone else. Marian Dobbert and Betty Cooke (1987) at the University of Minnesota have taken… |
Sequence 11Junior Great Books The Great Books Foundation 40 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 1-800-222-5870 Provides… |
Sequence 12The Center for Socratic Practice The Judson Montessori School 705 Trafalgar San Antonio, Texas 78216 (210) 344-3117… |
Sequence 8Unfortunately, there are big differences in kids in terms of how autotelic they are. We have followed, for instance, just… |
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 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 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 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… |
Sequence 17not yet fully formed: he has not yet gathered about him the last folds of his robe of flesh and of love which is made up of… |
Sequence 4This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 8In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She… |
Sequence 11She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 3And the adult human, says Bronowski, in The Ascent of Man, is "a singular creature. He has a set of gifts that make… |
Sequence 9Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 10something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 183something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 184Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 210And the adult human, says Bronowski, in The Ascent of Man, is "a singular creature. He has a set of gifts that make… |
Sequence 228She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 231In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She… |
Sequence 235This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 6selected fifteen from those who were nominated, and we spent a week in Mexico, in Akumal, a small resort on the Caribbean… |
Sequence 12todo the activity to the point that you don't have to think about your skills anymore. There is an expression in… |
Sequence 3National Erdkinder Consortium, a clearing house for Erdkinder devel- opment founded by Gang. Three previously unpublished… |
Sequence 10CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS OF ADOLESCENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY compiled by John Long Almost every Montessori secondary… |
Sequence 19critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 3In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 9you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 11was very well-meaning. But as soon as people got capital for them- selves, what did they do with it? Did they go out and buy… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 13all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 17And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well, Wal-Mart in California-I suppose it's the… |
Sequence 20balance is the profile of the agrarian: The agrarian alone understands that proper balance. We go back to the image of… |
Sequence 26even made some money on it. Then one May, right before we were going to pick it-it was absolutely beautiful-the whole orchard… |
Sequence 2is true that if a person blows a cylinder in a tractor right during harvest, someone will step forward. Farmers are the most… |
Sequence 3become a mechanic. They become less connected with the land. They use capital from off the farm to subsidize losses on the… |
Sequence 24progression of mathematical concepts from Algebra I to Algebra II to Trigonometry, culminating in Calculus. Mr. Miller also… |
Sequence 19Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 17I'm the international coordinator of a project for UNESCO called Growing Up in Cities, which has produced many examples… |
Sequence 21development in ecodesign. In this second part I shall discuss the implications of all these ideas for education. I should tell… |
Sequence 30voted to choose a small shrimp called the California freshwater shrimp, which occurred in the creeks surrounding the school in… |
Sequence 12Manrique, Beatriz. "Love Effaces Violence: Panel on Break- ing the Cycle of Violence." Pre-and Perinatal… |
Sequence 2f ROM ECOLOGICAL LITERACY TO ECOLOGICAL DESIGN INTELLIGENCE by David W. Orr In the next two articles, David Orr addresses… |
Sequence 15us, it was a good decision, too. Now we're differentiated, and our customers are even more loyal to us. When you talk… |
Sequence 6In Montessori's original Children's House, there were no toys for pretend play. Instead of dressing and undressing… |
Sequence 7House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational… |
Sequence 5Figure 6. Drawing, Community Montessori School, New Albany, IN 2. Objects Are Prominent A primary purpose of the interior… |
Sequence 4Participants experience clarity and social cohesion around the Erdkinder farm school experience, which is, in some cases,… |
Sequence 13• They will be lifelong learners because they enjoy what they do and learn in order to envision. • They will be socialized… |