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Sequence 2child, the greater must be the preparation of the people who will take care of him or her. During the many years she spent in… |
Sequence 3Bambini at Palazzo Taverna in Rome, where, even during fascism, she continued the observation and education of young children… |
Sequence 4I decided to do the course. I began attending Adele Costa Gnocchi's lectures and going to Palazzo Taverna for… |
Sequence 5been tried out in the home and in Infant Communities. 1 For instance, a low, large bed is a great help for the sensory and… |
Sequence 1Computer Associates' classroom-Before Montessori Computer Associates' classroom-With Montessori materials… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI TRANSFORMATION AT COMPUTER ASSOCIATES by Lisa Mars Since 1997, Computer Associates, Inc., has placed AMI… |
Sequence 3were put in strollers to go for walks. The rooms contained lots of plastic toys. The only mixed age groups were the… |
Sequence 4status, it is probably easiest to look at the changes in each community. Our Nido, or "nest," for children… |
Sequence 5and finish their food or they will be hungry. The children watch the adults eating with cutlery and then are given a spoon… |
Sequence 6apple by seeing an apple, feeling an apple, and tasting an apple enables the child to absorb the experience. Children now do… |
Sequence 7what their child has received until they have moved into the elemen- tary school arena and they see the results in their… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI SPIRITUAL: Goo, EvoLUTION, AND THE NATURAL WORLD by David Kahn It is sometimes difficult to characterize the… |
Sequence 2ics, philosophy, etc. This process of exploring time and space is certainly different from worship. Mitchell Thomashow, as he… |
Sequence 3Work for Csikszentrnihay Ii is not too far from Maria Montessori' s notion of cosmic task. He writes: When a person… |
Sequence 4education. I would add that there may actually bea fusion between this question and the question of the origin of self as… |
Sequence 1Sofia Cavalletti 6 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Summer 2002 |
Sequence 2LITURGY IN THE CosMic PLAN OF Goo by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti's conviction that the greatest realities are… |
Sequence 3Creation was waiting for human crea- tures, for their capacity to enjoy and work in the world in order to trans- form it and… |
Sequence 4Creation was waiting for human creatures, for their capacity to enjoy and work in the world in order to transform it and… |
Sequence 5world needs someone to bring it to fulfillment. This someone has to be the human creature, who, while physiologically… |
Sequence 6becomes part of Jesus, and Jesus "is God's." Thus, worship which the human creature performs in Christ… |
Sequence 1THE Goo Wtto HAs No HANDS-PART I by Peter Gebhardt-Seele The "cosmic tale" of God Who Has No Hands is put… |
Sequence 2TttEPROLOGUEOFTHESTORY That story is meant to be the grand overture to all of cosmic education, and it is told to the six-… |
Sequence 3sea which is always astir, ... [the] trees, the flowers, and the scent they shed around them? ... Yes, that is how it seems… |
Sequence 4erything in the beginning, but he or she directs every particle's behav- ior at any moment in time. This directing is… |
Sequence 5OTHER WORLD MODELS Let's see what models we find. There are creation myths, like the turtle that carries the world on… |
Sequence 6with a creator helplessly standing by, not being able to change events, would he have stepped up against Goliath? No. Even… |
Sequence 7Goliath. We might recognize God's intention to do away with this monster, but in our world model there is no option for… |
Sequence 8How can a free personal being coexist with the law of nature? That's the pivotal little question we have here. Is it not… |
Sequence 9in nature itself. Maybe our everyday experience of nature has led us to conceive of a model which is just a window. Partially… |
Sequence 10So there is no logical contradiction in describing the law upon which all matter is based as the free will of God. So far we… |
Sequence 11where trains run at random would not be very helpful. That does not mean that once in a while there could not be an extra… |
Sequence 1p ART II: FURTHER IMPLICATIONS 1. MORE DETAILS Maria Montessori on the Universal l11tellige11ce In the text of the story of… |
Sequence 22. PHYSICAL SCIENCE AS A POSTERIORI (EMPIRICAL) KNOWLEDGE IN TERMS Of IMMANUEL KANT Physical science provides what Immanuel… |
Sequence 3It is important to recognize that the hypothesis of absolute consis- tency in nature is an assumption that can be verified… |
Sequence 4The human being as an important end in the cosmos is introduced in another Great Story, "The Coming of the Human… |
Sequence 5model recognizes the development toward goals, toward harmony and beauty. Such a model must sassume a guiding intelligence.… |
Sequence 6to the human beings, "I have spread thick covers so that your feet can walk on soft ground, I have put flowers in my… |
Sequence 7life is extinguished, there will always be minor life forms that will survive. The roaches have survived several such… |
Sequence 8The Lord is in charge; He is the All-Mighty. That is understood as to say, He acts in nature, the particles obey Him, He does… |
Sequence 1Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
Sequence 211 And where is He?" "He is in Heaven and on this earth. He is everywhere." "What can He… |
Sequence 3And really it does seem impossible. We who have hands could not do these things, so how could someone who has no hands do them… |
Sequence 4stars: as hot, you might say, as a blazing furnace from which no heat can escape. In this measureless void of cold and… |
Sequence 5might think too tiny to matter, was bound to behave according to the rules He had made. For the drop of the blazing cloud… |
Sequence 6will take up more room than the particles of a solid. And to the gases God said: Your particles shall not cling together at… |
Sequence 7When you throw a stone into a pond it sinks to the bottom. Similarly the heavier liquids sank towards the centre of the earth… |
Sequence 8Here they grew hot and light again, light enough to rise up once more, carrying with them part of the heat from below, which… |
Sequence 1l f t / \ ' I / :---" \ Figure 1. 42 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Summer 2002 |
Sequence 2Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 3We use the term cosmic education to refer to an education which is an effective preparation of the new generations to… |
Sequence 4all connected. And so we want to look at the unity of the whole and foster in the child that sense of the unity and the cosmos… |
Sequence 5represents human work and the development of the intellect. We ask the question that has been asked throughout time, "… |
Sequence 6have little vials of perfume because of our need to decorate ourselves. We have different seeds. We have pictures of animals… |
Sequence 7species, all of these things are affecting them. They are important to the children. And we also say to the children when we… |
Sequence 8child said, "Well, I think the people in Kosovo and Croatia need the light to stop fighting. And other people need… |
Sequence 9universe? The "Plan of God" material, which is introduced in Elemen- tary II and used for three years,… |
Sequence 10things that are in heaven and on earth (Ephesians 1:10). And every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in… |
Sequence 11There are different ways to look at cosmic education and at the cosmic vision. One that Montessori talks about is how we… |
Sequence 12Figure 4 was done in the Atrium as a get well card for one of the children who had a broken arm. This is a six-and-a-half-… |
Sequence 13,--------------------------------~ --- Figure 7 is a picture again of the cosmic cross. This child shows herself in this… |
Sequence 14Figure 10. Figure 11. Figure 10 is done by a five- year-old child who never had the presentations of the cosmic cross, and… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES Cavalletti, Sofia. II potenziale religioso tra i 6 e i 12 anni. Trans. Rebekah Rojcewicz. Rome: Citta Nuova… |
Sequence 158 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Summer 2002 |
Sequence 2JOURNEYING WITH CHILDREN TowARD Goo by Rebekah Rojcewicz Rebekah Rojcewicz' s short summanJ of the Ca techesis of the… |
Sequence 3Where do such deep responses come from in children? What triggers them? What do they tell us about the religious nature of… |
Sequence 4Two MYSTERIES The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd has been called" the meeting ground of two mysteries: the mystery… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 6most striking aspect of this drawing for me are the faces of the shepherd and the sheep around his neck. They have matching… |
Sequence 7THE ATRIUM And so we prepare a space, the atrium, where these great truths can be proclaimed and these mysteries explored. It… |
Sequence 8Jesus invites us to comprehend the depth and intimacy of his relation- ship with us, the providential love and care of the… |
Sequence 1Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi HOWARD GARDNER MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYJ WILLIAM DAMON GOOD WORK When Excellence and Ethics Meet… |
Sequence 2THE Gooo WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi INTRODUCTION Dr. Csikszentmihaly incisively defines soul "as a person… |
Sequence 3a big mistake on his part and felt guilty for having influenced genera- tions of parents and teachers by neglecting this… |
Sequence 4crystal, the energy is simply spent to keep itself from dissolving into its particles. But when you talk about a living… |
Sequence 5trying to develop autonomous individuals who were self-sufficient, who knew how to fend for themselves and how to survive and… |
Sequence 6Research Summary This notion that cooperation and spirituality, in the sense of transcending the needs of the system as they… |
Sequence 7petitiveness. If both of these factors are present, then you will be feeling good about yourself as a young adult. The other… |
Sequence 8school and after college and were less satisfied after college. This percent of time in which you are disengaged from the… |
Sequence 9EXCELLENCE AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS I would like to say a few words about what happens at the other end, once you are into… |
Sequence 10you are 20 or 50 or 90 and say, 'Oh, oh, this is really not working.' Why not learn that sooner than later so people… |
Sequence 11price for me and you are trying to get the best price for you the whole negotiation process is really enjoyable. Even though… |
Sequence 12responsibility to the workers, to the community. He is Jewish, in his seventies, and he exercises every day for one hour. He… |
Sequence 13All kids should have an understanding of this. In fact, it should be the basis of all education. The first thing a child… |
Sequence 14Q: I have an answer for you. I don't know if you are like me but when I go to a conference I always grab a book or two… |
Sequence 15even at this time. It's really difficult to measure successful develop- ment at that age. So we thought that their sense… |
Sequence 16Q: In talking as a mother and a teacher I hear all of this and it brings me right back to the child in the Montessori… |
Sequence 17than one that periodically dissolved itself into war and stupidities of various forms. I just tried to figure out how best to… |
Sequence 184 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Summer 2002 |
Sequence 2RECONCILING EVOLUTION WITH RELIGION: BLENDING CREATION THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE by Philip Hefner Dr. Hefner's clear… |
Sequence 3The brain is a biological organism, but the strange and fascinating point about this biological organism is that it inher-… |
Sequence 4The brain is a biological organism, but the strange and fascinating point about this biological organism is that it inherently… |
Sequence 5physical and chemical realms, novelty emerges, surprises happen. Chaos science is also a part of it. These scientists talk… |
Sequence 6at the same time point to possibilities to which our biologi- cal inheritance is not yet sensitive. The sensate deals with… |
Sequence 7thought about. Sometimes their framework is much better than I had in mind and sometimes I cannot see it from their point of… |
Sequence 8creation stories of every religion, including the creation stories in Genesis. Of course, there can be very different stories… |
Sequence 9ary scheme is a necessity. Freedom and determinism are not opposed to one another as we so often say; they exist in a rich and… |
Sequence 10through that window? What kind of a God is singing that song? What kind of a God conditions the nature of nature? In our… |
Sequence 11after death. Even if the hope is in some immortality, in some heaven, these religions are dedicated to the proposition that… |
Sequence 12or the bad things that happen in the lives of children. We cannot take credit for all the good things and we should not feel… |