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Sequence 13Whenever possible, music and poetry may be related to things children say. For example, once at the beginning of June, three… |
Sequence 14jZr JIJ II e r ~ J ~ ~ J =i Hu - mu - hu - mu - nu - cu - nu - cu - a - pu - a. This, in turn, attracted the attention of… |
Sequence 1ANIMAL ALLIES by Brenda Peterson In a brilliant suspension of disbelief, Ms. Peterson, in her storytelling class with young… |
Sequence 2After three days of stories set on an earth besieged by disease and barren of nature, I made a rule: No more characters or… |
Sequence 3... and he blew her head off. A bullet grazed my skull, too, and I blacked out. When I woke up, Katie was gone, dead forever.… |
Sequence 4A fierce commander of this hunt was Rat, whose army of comput- erized comrades could read brain waves and call down lightning… |
Sequence 5deadness Sarah carried, the violence that had hollowed her out inside, the friend who haunted her imagination. But now her… |
Sequence 6These are animals they have only seen in zoos or on television, yet there is a profound identification, an ease of… |
Sequence 7tween our bodies and the planet. As we told our Amazon stories over the next week of class, gathered in a circle of animal… |
Sequence 8of a Jaguar have probably forgotten the wild, black cat that first ran with them as children. Imagination is relegated to… |
Sequence 9complete-with animals as soul mirrors. We remembered who we were, by allowing the animals inside us to survive. The dance is… |
Sequence 1102 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 24, No. 3 • Summer 1999 |
Sequence 2THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE by Brian Swimme Edited by Connie Barlow This article portrays the… |
Sequence 3We do not have a fixed Epic of Evolution that we now announce as any final truth. We have, rather, a profound grasp of some… |
Sequence 4ments of the human species, a crowning intellectual achievement of the modern age. I would like to begin with a series of… |
Sequence 5Though the discovery of cosmic and terrestrial evolution has involved humans from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and can… |
Sequence 6in the year 1000, we find a series of settlements around the planet with a smaller number of hunter-gatherer bands that are… |
Sequence 7are starving to death each year; or the hundred million humans murdered in one of our twentieth-century wars; or the billions… |
Sequence 8assumption that resources were infinite." Animal" and "extinction" are not categories in… |
Sequence 9The only community that exists is the life community, the ecological community. And within the new story it is this… |
Sequence 10This task certainly will occupy the great volume of human energy and human genius for the next few centuries at least. All our… |
Sequence 11elites of western civilization have shielded themselves from the task of transformation that our time calls for. But still it… |
Sequence 1THE POWER OF MONTESSORI' s POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE by Annette Haines A bird's-eyeviewofthe… |
Sequence 2today, came to you through your own energy, through your own activity as a baby and as a child. The activity of the young… |
Sequence 3consistency, which yet slowly so- lidify, and, transforming themselves, become stars and planets" (59, italics… |
Sequence 4growing or dying, or becoming stronger or weaker, depending on the richness of the banquet" (Katulak 4). The outer… |
Sequence 5Research on animals indicates that when an animal is quiet after a period of exploration, many cells in the critical region… |
Sequence 6;;; R O> ~ j " -~ al i'! ~ ~ z "i' ~ : if -~ '" .c .E c… |
Sequence 7this afternoon. Montessori suggested that children concentrate when they focus their attention, their energies, on a single… |
Sequence 8Now this is a posi- tive idea. Montessori's psychology (unlike the prevailing paradigm based on disease, test- ing,… |
Sequence 9hearts (131). This was in 1949. It is just as true-perhaps truer-in 1999, fifty years later! Our job as educators is to aid… |
Sequence 10Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. S. J. Costelloe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. Montessori,… |
Sequence 1ART FROM THE UNIVERSE STORY: NEW MEANING FOR THE CHILD by John Fowler An ardent devotee of Brian Swimme, Mr. Fowler… |
Sequence 2are the questions raised by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry in their landmark work, The Universe Story. Their epic portrayal… |
Sequence 3thjg broader vision, this new story, has deepened our po- tential inquiry into meaning through a host of new lessons… |
Sequence 4words of Bob Samples, Sir Isaac Newton, and Jerome Bruner as cited in Samples' The Metaphoric Mind: The inventive… |
Sequence 5Yourn: But why say it's a green dragon when obviously it isn't? THOMAS: For several reasons. I call the universe a… |
Sequence 6THE FIRST LESSON To depict the origins of the universe to the child, I begin in the time- honored tradition of storytellers… |
Sequence 7The story that the children hear next is my personal version of the beginning of the universe, the primordial flaring forth… |
Sequence 8way. I asked only that the children write down any feelings or thoughts which they had at the time. All children's names… |
Sequence 9The music created a feeling of life. Picture # 2: This picture is of a particle that was left and joining with a negative.… |
Sequence 10The Primordial Flaring Forth, by Brandy. Alondra' s opening comments recal I Montessori' swords wherein she… |
Sequence 11edge? It becomes doubtful whether even the universe will suffice. How did it come into being, and how will it end? A greater… |
Sequence 12THOMAS: This mysterious attraction that we call "interest" is as mysterious, as basic, as the allurement we… |
Sequence 13The Primordial Flaring Forth, by Julio. she felt"cold and heavy like the water of a swimming pool weighing me down.… |
Sequence 14Held by the Sun We are held by the gravity of the Sun. Jf it were not so, we would be without the pattern of the seasons and… |
Sequence 15Held by the Sun: The loving embrace. Implementing a curriculum founded upon new themes in cosmol- ogy has been rich. It also… |
Sequence 16Light Expanding, Radiant Rushing, Giving, Receiving It burns in all of us, The Giver REFERENCES Cajete, Greg. Look to the… |
Sequence 1THE CASADEI BAMBINI: PRIMARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE by David Kahn The vision of San Lorenzo, the Casadei… |
Sequence 2noble aspirations of the human being and civilization. And underly- ing this coming into reality of the Montessori idea is… |
Sequence 1Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 2THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 3from reading aloud around the fireplace in the evening for entertain- ment to multimedia entertainment centers in the family… |
Sequence 4This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 5read from the Epistle of the Mass of the day, the Feast of the Epiphany-" Arise, shine; for thy light is come and the… |
Sequence 6In The Secret of Cl1ildhood, Dr. Montessori writes about her discov- ery that children could choose their own occupations:… |
Sequence 7This gave us our first insight into the unexplored depths of a child's mind. This little girl was at an age when… |
Sequence 8In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She… |
Sequence 9One of the aspects that distinguishes the Montessori approach to human development is that its theoretical framework emerged… |
Sequence 10Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
Sequence 11She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 12Montessori, Maria. "The Four Planes of Education." AMI Communications (1971, #4), 4-10. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 1Silver polishing, Laren, Holland, 1948 16 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 2FOREWORD TO THE SECRET OF CHILDHOOD by Margaret E. Stephenson Margaret Stephenson's classic introduction to the root… |
Sequence 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 4with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
Sequence 5The first thing to do is to realize that Dr. Montessori was working for life, not mere! y for the educational process of life… |
Sequence 6of the child at birth and the child at three years of age, what an immense differ- ence there is between them, what an… |
Sequence 7In whatever country a child may be born,he is endowed with what Dr. Montessori called "the absorbent mind."… |
Sequence 8father, space pilot, dog, when one does not yet know what it means to be one's self? Again, as Montessori is based on… |
Sequence 9furnish examples of these. "Excuse me," said a child to a visitor commenting in a classroom that this was… |
Sequence 10the school and public library; the child who, after a lesson on rainfall in England, came to say that she had discovered that… |
Sequence 11tendencies. Only when we know the child's needs can we begin to learn how to cater for them. In Chapter 6 of The Secret… |
Sequence 12illustrated for us the deep spiritual meaning and significance of "the secret of childhood." She prepared… |
Sequence 13help that consists in setting the child free to move along the path of normal human development, in allowing the nature of man… |
Sequence 1"Give the world to the small child.' Maria Montessori 30 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 2THE CASA DEI BAMBINI: p ATHS TO CULTURE by Annette Haines Jn an attempt to reunify science, geography, history, music, and… |
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 4made with the invention of writing, but even so, the accumulation of knowledge remained painfully slow over centuries of time… |
Sequence 5It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |
Sequence 6By three years of age, the young child has created what Dr. Montessori called Man. This little man of three years has created… |
Sequence 7whose study of native creolized languages has led him to some surprising conclusions. It seems thatcreolized languages,… |
Sequence 8participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 9works, to lay down foundations that will be open and amenable to later learning. The Sensorial area provides the child with a… |
Sequence 10(l) others (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, and (n) those that resemble flies from a distance We could provide… |
Sequence 11which has the ability to think, i.e., they can order their thoughts into classes. There are no sharp boundaries in the natural… |
Sequence 12BASIC LEVEL I Chair \ SUPERORDINATE LEVEL Furniture SUBORDINATE LEVEL Recliner Figure 1 zation provides containers for… |
Sequence 13established in the mind. Our symbolic systems-most of language and all of mathematics-are ways of describing and managing… |
Sequence 14The use of language opens up entirely new worlds of thought. This is because once we can represent things in terms of strings… |
Sequence 15The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
Sequence 16culture-not as units of study but rather as part and parcel of that world which we give to the child. WEAVING THE WEB And… |
Sequence 17sibilities it brings-expands that introduction to include the whole physical and biological world. This is all we need to do… |
Sequence 18They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 19REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,… |
Sequence 20Montessori, Mario. The Human Tendencies and Montessori Education. Amsterdam: Association Montessori lnternationale, 1966.… |
Sequence 1Mother Isabel Eugenie, r. a., 1971 50 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 2THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A PERSONAL PILGRIMAGE by Marianne Moore Marianne Moore's eloquent characterization of the… |
Sequence 3But turning the matter over in my mind, I realized that the magic that drew me first to Montessori almost forty years ago is… |
Sequence 4As you all know, being a Montessori teacher is a very simple and at the same time a very complicated business. First of all we… |
Sequence 5medley of backgrounds among us. We come with a variety of gifts but, I believe, essentially the same spirit. We want to help… |