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Sequence 931 Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education Sengupta, Somini. “The Year Global Warming… |
Sequence 1MAriA MoNTessori’s CosMiC sTories AND CoNTeMPorAry sCieNCe Gerard Leonard is an AMI trainer. He currently trains elementary… |
Sequence 233 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled Montessori… |
Sequence 334 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 on human habitation, energy sources, and food production, and on the… |
Sequence 435 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science square kilometers at this time of year. They are the “grass” of the… |
Sequence 536 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 In her book From Childhood to Adolescence, Maria Montessori noted that… |
Sequence 637 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science Look at the globe and observe how much of the surface area of our planet… |
Sequence 738 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 on the coral, and of the many little shoals of fish they provide a home… |
Sequence 839 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science One example of these keys are models for the elements hydrogen, oxygen,… |
Sequence 940 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Lynn Margulis wrote in her seminal book Microcosmos: “These six elements… |
Sequence 1041 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science considered also a biosphere’s component, and so should products of human… |
Sequence 1142 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 the Earth’s body, like an animal’s fur, is essentially one with it, its… |
Sequence 1243 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science and most relevant insights from these great branches of learning to give… |
Sequence 1344 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Maria Montessori was well aware of the amazing work of the microbes (… |
Sequence 1445 Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science Marsh, George P. The Earth as Modified by Human Action: Man and Nature.… |
Sequence 1oF NATurAl sCieNCe, WoMeN’s hisTory, AND MoNTessori’s Theory oF kNoWleDge Kathleen Allen, now retired from teaching, taught… |
Sequence 247 Allen • Of Natural Science This chapter is based on a talk presented at the NAMTA conference titled Montessori History:… |
Sequence 348 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Museums are an incredible source of knowledge and wonder, and it is our… |
Sequence 449 Allen • Of Natural Science NATure sTuDy I have been rather immersed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries… |
Sequence 550 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Anna lived what she taught. She was a gardener, a beekeeper, and a keen… |
Sequence 651 Allen • Of Natural Science Anna developed the nature study program at Cornell and trained many teachers in her long career… |
Sequence 752 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) Swiss-German Maria Sibylla Merian has a… |
Sequence 853 Allen • Of Natural Science of Amsterdam, and the rest from a sale of her artwork. Maria Sibylla was 52 and Dorothea was 21… |
Sequence 954 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Emilie’s best known contribution to knowledge is her translation of Isaac… |
Sequence 1055 Allen • Of Natural Science million years a mere episode of world-history. Such studies as geology and astronomy help us… |
Sequence 1156 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 any kind of symbol, from words to musical notes. Ada imagined the… |
Sequence 1257 Allen • Of Natural Science a gathering of the most illustrious figures in physics and chemistry. Marie Curie is the only… |
Sequence 1358 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 just waiting. Their waiting differs, however, in that the seed is waiting… |
Sequence 1459 Allen • Of Natural Science When I was looking for a parallel quote from Montes- sori’s writings, this one stood out to me… |
Sequence 1560 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Second, these words from Teilhard de Chardin: The day will come, when… |
Sequence 1661 Allen • Of Natural Science Torrens, Hugh. “Presidential Address: Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme; ‘The Greatest Fossilist… |
Sequence 1Big hisTory MeeTs The MoNTessori MeThoD Lucy B. Laffitte teaches science in context from the big bang to the future. She has… |
Sequence 263 Laffitte • Big History This chapter is based on a talk presented at the NAMTA conference titled Montessori History: Search… |
Sequence 364 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 plexity and by scale from largest to smallest. Let’s conduct this thought… |
Sequence 465 Laffitte • Big History The fourth box would be overflowing with planets and moons, asteroids, and comets—the complex… |
Sequence 566 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 So, what should be placed in the twelfth box in the very center of the… |
Sequence 667 Laffitte • Big History Big Histories. We look at the narrative through different lenses—by asking how Big History informs… |
Sequence 768 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 San Rafael, California, uses Big History as a first-year experience for… |
Sequence 869 Laffitte • Big History q Artist's logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe with the solar system at… |
Sequence 1The ANThroPoCeNe: ThresholD 8 David Christian is a distinguished professor of history at Macquarie University in Austra- lia… |
Sequence 271 Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 Reprinted from Origin Story: A Big History of Everything. London: Allen Lane/… |
Sequence 372 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 gunship, with its seventeen cannons and its ability to sail fast in… |
Sequence 473 Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 twenty nations signed the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which… |
Sequence 574 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 This research, combined with the invention of the transistor in the late… |
Sequence 675 Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 of modern statistical analysis, computers allowed governments, banks,… |
Sequence 776 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 problems most traditional governments had been able to ignore. The… |
Sequence 877 Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 thanks to the productivity of modern agriculture and modern advances in medicine… |
Sequence 978 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 TrANsForMiNg The BiosPhere The fossil-fuel revolution and the Great… |
Sequence 1079 Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 Our impact on other large mammals has also been profound. In 1900, wild land… |
Sequence 1180 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 The energy bonanza from fossil fuels, like the energy bonanza from… |
Sequence 1281 Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 Nevertheless, a growing proportion of the human population is living well above… |
Sequence 1382 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 NoTes 1. Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow, Essence of Decision:… |
Sequence 1liViNg By gAiA Lynn Margulis 83 Margulis • Living by Gaia |
Sequence 284 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 liViNg By gAiA by Lynn Margulis The 2018 Cleveland conference screened… |
Sequence 385 Margulis • Living by Gaia garden and red-brick home of Lynn’s favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. “Do you know the poem about… |
Sequence 486 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 colleagues. He suggested that the theory be named after the Green goddess… |
Sequence 587 Margulis • Living by Gaia JW: There are some points of the Gaia hypothesis on which you and Lovelock disagree. What are… |
Sequence 688 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 compared the churning of soil and the cycling of water between the oceans… |
Sequence 789 Margulis • Living by Gaia These are just a few of the scientists who has influence our present thinking about the Earth.… |
Sequence 890 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 ancestral connection between human beings and other mammals. He… |
Sequence 991 Margulis • Living by Gaia In this view, organisms do not compete in the neo-Darwinian sense—“nature, red in tooth and… |
Sequence 1092 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 yet it has remained relatively stable for over five hundred million years… |
Sequence 1193 Margulis • Living by Gaia q accomplishment. Most accounts of evolution don’t even begin until a few hundred million years… |
Sequence 1HISTORY: HUMAN SOLIDARITY: MAN WHITHER BOUND Baiba Krumins Grazzini is director of training at the International Centre for… |
Sequence 295 Krumins Grazzini • History: Human Solidarity Reprinted from The NAMTA Journal 31.1 (2006, Winter): 339–353. Copyright 2006… |
Sequence 396 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 In order to examine Montessori’s idea of history, the first thing I want… |
Sequence 497 Krumins Grazzini • History: Human Solidarity Let us compare the appearance of man upon the Earth to the discovery of the… |
Sequence 598 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 What is the importance of all this for the children? After all, we know… |
Sequence 699 Krumins Grazzini • History: Human Solidarity We want to help the children to think about human life in the past, to… |
Sequence 7100 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 ways of living, different ways of life, and we have to help them.… |
Sequence 8101 Krumins Grazzini • History: Human Solidarity the transformation of the Earth. Human beings have built a supernature for… |
Sequence 9102 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018 Yesterday I gave the example of the alphabet. It’s extraordinary to think… |
Sequence 1PREFACE By Jacquie Maughan In the fall of 1975, Volume 1, Number 1 of the North American Montessori Teachers’ Associ- ation… |
Sequence 24 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 And John Merrow… |
Sequence 1REFINING OUR PRACTICE AS MONTESSORI TEACHERS: CULTIVATING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE METHOD, OURSELVES, AND THE CHILD… |
Sequence 26 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 REFINING OUR PRACTICE AS MONTESSORI TEACHERS: CULTIVATING A DEEPER… |
Sequence 3To go beyond Montessori is to rediscover Montessori. I think of these words when I reflect back on my own early years in the… |
Sequence 48 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 her to take another look, to dig in, and to come to a deeper understanding… |
Sequence 5mond, and Dr. Patricia Kuhl (a specialist in early child- hood language development at the University of Wash- ington who… |
Sequence 610 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 about the children of privilege in America, “The children snatched the… |
Sequence 7But in this quote, Montessori tells us the teacher must prepare herself, not by means of the content, but by means of the… |
Sequence 812 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 What about the methods and models specific to early childhood? The… |
Sequence 9The Heart of the Montessori Method “If pedagogy is to take its place among the sciences, it must be characterized by its… |
Sequence 1014 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 Without observation, regular, practiced, intentional observation, we can… |
Sequence 11True justice doesn’t mean that there is a single law for all; this kind of justice puts everyone at the lowest level. Some… |
Sequence 1216 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 all of the good possible in them. Not only the obvious things, but the… |
Sequence 13children’s actions reflect our ability as a teacher, or lack of ability. The children are their own beings. They are not us.… |
Sequence 1418 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 18 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 “Too often,… |
Sequence 1LEARNING, LISTENING AND LISTENING WELL Tessa Lochhead (on the left) co-founded the Pirurvik Preschool in 2015 with Karen Nu… |
Sequence 220 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 LEARNING, LISTENING AND LISTENING WELL by Tessa Lochhead The Pirurvik… |
Sequence 3observations taught her that children learn best with quality hands-on materials that help them with real life skills, instead… |
Sequence 422 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 Kotierk, president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc, initiated a study entitled ‘… |
Sequence 5We got together with a few parents in the commu- nity who were also supportive of this idea, and created the preschool parent… |
Sequence 624 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 In these initial DEA meetings, we spoke about how Montessori learning… |
Sequence 7will be based on learning, listening and listening well to each and every communities’ needs and celebrating that cultural… |
Sequence 826 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 26 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 WORKS CITED First… |
Sequence 1PRACTICAL LIFE AS A MODEL FOR CONNECTING THE CHILD TO HIS WORLD Junnifa Uzodike is an AMI-trained Montessori educator for… |
Sequence 228 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 PRACTICAL LIFE AS A MODEL FOR CONNECTING THE CHILD TO HIS WORLD By… |
Sequence 3daily life. In the beginning, the child does these activities to develop himself and gain as- sociated skills. However, they… |
Sequence 430 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 snack. The child peels and slices those five and it becomes 40 slices… |