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Sequence 1Camillo Grazzini, late 1990s 154 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. I • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 2MARIA MONTESSORI'S COSMIC VISION, COSMIC PLAN, AND COSMIC EDUCATION by Camillo Grazzini INTRODUCTION Some time ago I… |
Sequence 3COSMIC VISION, PLAN, AND EDUCATION By 1935, Maria Montessori's cosmic vision, her thinking in rela- tion to a cosmic… |
Sequence 4lends depth of meaning to the expression chosen and used by Montessori herself. COSMIC VISION The Montessori vision of the… |
Sequence 5shared direction and a common goal in our work. In stark contrast to this, there is cosmic education, which is for the second… |
Sequence 6shared out.Understood in this way, expressed in this way, the cosmic plan actually consists of an integrated structure or… |
Sequence 7mankind and with mankind alone do we have the psychosphere, for "something new came into the world with man, a… |
Sequence 8and unceasing toil of these agents explain so many of the phenomena with which we are familiar: day and night, summer and… |
Sequence 9Take, for example, the corals. These extract calcium carbonate from the water and, tiny as they are, they build up new land,… |
Sequence 10any lifetime is that which takes the human being from the helpless state of the newborn babe to the child, who not only… |
Sequence 11Nature and, moreover, makes use of them, thus creating new possibilities. His technical skill has harnessed the forces of… |
Sequence 12education wants to prepare the growing child for the task awaiting him in adult life, so that he will feel at ease in his own… |
Sequence 13context of a single force. With these kinds of discoveries, the children come to understand and appreciate the importance of… |
Sequence 14plete one another. "In the cos- mic plan of culture," wrote Montessori in 1949, "all the sciences… |
Sequence 15evolution is the unity of mankind. In the psychosphere there should now only be one civilization. (Unpublished proceedings)… |
Sequence 16And also: "This solidarity between human beings, which projects itself into the future and is sunk in the remotest… |
Sequence 17Lastly, in December, 1951, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, UNESCO invited… |
Sequence 18Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1949. Montessori, Maria. To… |
Sequence 1Baiba Krumins and Camillo Grazzini, 2002-2003 172 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. I • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 2A MONTESSORI COMMUNITY FOR ADOLESCENTS by Camillo Grazzini and Baiba Krumins Indicating the theoretical underpinnings for… |
Sequence 3Thus I indicated that the paper was originally written for the Adolescent Colloquium, which was held in Cleveland and… |
Sequence 4In The Secret of Childhood, Maria Montessori makes it very clear how the adult and the child each have their own work, in… |
Sequence 5About the child, Montessori says that, though the child cannot take part in the adult's work, the child is also "… |
Sequence 61. ADOLESCENT NEEDS AND MONTESSORl'S ANSWER Knowledge of the adolescent's characteristics, physical and physi-… |
Sequence 7"devotes Himself to manual work and exercises a craft" (Adolescence, Schocken 134). The adolescent Christ,… |
Sequence 8From the restricted meaning of the physical surroundings we have come to the idea of the surrounding conditions, be these… |
Sequence 9Young people from eighteen to twenty years of age Montessori called II die Wuestenkinder, 11 which means II the children of… |
Sequence 10environments are to be found, and these gradually come to be managed by the adolescents together with the adults. Ideally,… |
Sequence 114. ERDKINDER AND THE "URBAN COMl'ROMJSE" 5 I have always found it disconcerting when the adjective… |
Sequence 12been lacking: the very environment which constitutes the keystone for an Erdkinder community experiment. 5. PAST EXPERIENCE… |
Sequence 13sense of personal responsibility." The very first experiment of this kind, however, was the Junior Republic, founded… |
Sequence 14Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to… |
Sequence 15source of the social harmony which accelerates individual progress. (Adolescence, Clio 74) Of course, an important part of… |
Sequence 166. PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE All the institutions mentioned earlier, as well as the Erdkinder community itself, incorporate two… |
Sequence 17Therefore, from this point of view, the Erdkinder community is Montessori's instrument, an original and innovative… |
Sequence 18midway between the two positions. It provided remedial measures and brought hope for the future. 9 Also for the Erdkinder… |
Sequence 19psychological maladjustment (mental barriers, timidity) may be ad- mitted ... " (Adolescence, Schocken 119). It… |
Sequence 20In the light of what Montessori herself writes, the problem of training Montessori teachers for working in the Erdkinder does… |
Sequence 21From this perspective, it is completely counter-productive and also contrary to Montessori's thinking to have individuals… |
Sequence 22Another possibility also exists, that is to say, an initiative that could be undertaken in addition to the above. The funds… |
Sequence 23The latter would examine what Dr. Montessori proposes as a program for each subject, even though she really only gives us an… |
Sequence 24Back in 1974, I suggested toMarioMontessori,Jr., that he ask those involved with the Erdkinder experiment to procure the… |
Sequence 25of the individual is different during the different planes of develop- ment, then the Montessori approach must also be… |
Sequence 26Apart from the above, the Erdkinder community does not need specific "Montessori materials" such as there… |
Sequence 27From this point of view, we can also understand the explosion in the supply of computers to children, even to children of a… |
Sequence 28What guarantee, after all, can the Erdkinder community offer parents? There are no existing Erdkinder communities (in the… |
Sequence 29The situation is very different when it comes to adolescents who are disadvantaged or handicapped in any way: if the… |
Sequence 30(e) A "Montessori" syllabus (possibly unjfied/integrated) of the academic curricula adopted by the… |
Sequence 31should ask ourselves whether it is up to us to give life to this great idea of the Erdkinder community, or whether it would be… |
Sequence 32is a translation by the Montessori Educational Research Center from the French De /'En/ant a I' Adolescent (Desclee… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCTION TO MARIO M. MoNTESSORI's uSYNTROPY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH" by Camillo Grazzini Syntropy is a… |
Sequence 2nature that relate to a process of dispersion or disintegration and of thereby falling to a lower level of structure and/ or… |
Sequence 3soon as she came to know my theory, the great Maestra used it in support of all her own scientific pedagogy." In… |
Sequence 1AMI commemorative painting of Mario Montessori 208 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 2MARIO M. MoNTEssoru Is DEAD: CHRONICLE OF A CEREMONY by Camillo Grazzini Mr. Grazzini' s sensitive portrayal of the… |
Sequence 3the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 4Then, together with other Directors of Training, I get into a black Mercedes with dark, lowered curtains. The coffin is… |
Sequence 5The consciousness, therefore, is applied to considering the slightest movements, to controlling actions in every detail in… |
Sequence 6this reason how inhuman can be relations among persons? And further, that his humanity did not come either from weakness or… |
Sequence 7We all begin to converse. I recognize, among many others, J. Koning, N. VanderHeide-Verschuur, F. Malik, and G. Portielje from… |
Sequence 8Mario M. Montessori, 1970s The NAMTA Journal 215 |
Sequence 1Mario Montessori, Baarn, Holland, early 1970s 216 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 2MY TRIBUTE TO MARIO MONTESSORI by Camillo Grazzini Here and now I wish to give my own personal testimony to the importance… |
Sequence 3Thus, in this year's first issue of AMI Communications, Renilde Montessori gives the "acknowledgement of the… |
Sequence 4with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen… |
Sequence 5Especially during the first fifteen years of the center's existence, Mario Montessori often stayed for lengthy periods in… |
Sequence 6reference but perhaps for an underlying need of absolute certainty and structure. Like early human beings, I am a hunter and… |
Sequence 7In the same AMI Communications cited earlier, I read an interesting article by Professor P. Krishna. In his article, "… |
Sequence 8Before giving a few specific examples or illustrations of those "pearls," I wish to point out some important… |
Sequence 9Figure 1. Montessori representations of chemical elements: the atoms. Perugia, 1956. So, for example, the "sugar that… |
Sequence 10EXAMPLES INVOLVING ARITHMETIC One example for arithmetic is the work with rational and irratio- nal numbers using the insets… |
Sequence 11AN EXAMPLE INVOLVING ALGEBRA: QUADRATIC EQUATIONS WITH ONE UNKNOWN Mario started with the square of a binomial in order… |
Sequence 12Figure 5. A quadratic equation: its geometric representation. Bergamo, 1965. The interesting thing is that with Maria's… |
Sequence 13ASSOCIATION MONTESSORI INTERNATIONALE 0.. M ... RI ... MotlTl!SSORI, P ..... , ........... 1929 -1952 Sr-c,t: .. rillll: t61… |
Sequence 14We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 15Now we all belong to a new era, but it is an era which has been bequeathed to us by Mario Montessori, the man whom we are all… |
Sequence 1Mario M. Montessori, Jr. 232 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 2MARIA MONTESSORI AND SUPRANATURE: WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY by Camillo Grazzini IN MEMORY OF MARIO M. MONTESSORI JR. In memory of… |
Sequence 3Above all, Mario Montessori was by nature a true "citizen of the world," like his father and grandmother… |
Sequence 4of the Netherlands. He was following in his grandmother's footsteps, for Maria Montessori was similarly honored in 1950… |
Sequence 5Figure 1. But above all, Mario Montessori was by nature a true "citizen of the world," like his father and… |
Sequence 6The montage that Mario Montessori fashioned is made up of three elements: two Italian banknotes bearing respectively the… |
Sequence 7Above and beyond Marconi and Marconi's amazing invention, Maria Montessori is moved by the grandeur of the human being… |
Sequence 8invisible causes of a mysterious kind of communication, that nonetheless transport the actual voice of Man and the thoughts… |
Sequence 9The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
Sequence 10The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
Sequence 11Also the London and North Western Railway's train is part of that marvelous "supranature" of which… |
Sequence 1STUDY-CONFERENCE IN STRASBOURG, AUGUST, 1962 by Vera Gander and Camillo Grazzini This year it has been the turn of eastern… |
Sequence 2this globe that revolves in space and on which we live. In the way we Montessorians consider it, the Earth is not divisible… |
Sequence 3The aids for the small child begin with the rough and smooth globe, then go on from the white and blue globe (to visualize… |
Sequence 4This is the program of geography that Maria Montessori has given us to enable the child to master the problems connected with… |
Sequence 1OBITUARY: GIANNA GOBBI by Camillo Grazzini On January 29, in her eighty-third year, Gianna Gobbi suddenly, unexpectedly,… |
Sequence 2Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 3Gobbi presented a synthesis of a part of her personal experiences with the children in a little book called Alcuni principi… |
Sequence 4Of the many things that I have heard and read during the days following Gianna Gobbi's death, I particularly like what a… |
Sequence 1BERGAMO, ITALY: TWENTY YEARS OF MONTESSORI ACTIVITY by Camillo Grazzini The origins of the "Maria Montessori School… |
Sequence 2in the heart of the town a proper building, responding to the require- ments of the children, in which to house a pilot… |
Sequence 3Thus the Montessori School of Bergamo offers an educational and scholastic approach that extends over a span of twelve years.… |
Sequence 1CAMILLO 26-01-04 by Renilde Montessori The twenty-sixth day of January is most definitely not to be remembered as the day of… |
Sequence 2Thus the Montessori School of Bergamo offers an educational and scholastic approach that extends over a span of twelve years.… |