Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/3 03 Group Flow and Group Genius Keith Sawyer views the spontaneous collaboration of group creativity and improvisation actions as "group flow," which organizations can use to function at optimum levels. Sawyer establishes ideal conditions for group flow: group goals, close listening,…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/3 02 Creating a Context for Flow: The Importance of Personal Insight and Experience Kevin Rathunde reflects on his early studies of flow in Montessori adolescents and surmises that adults need to experience their own flow in order to guide young people to peak levels. He recounts his early music experiences as having "peaked" and that he…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/3 01 Scaffolding for Discovery in the Third Plane Laurie Ewert-Krocker emphasizes the teacher's role in nature's prepared environment. Without directing or controlling the child's work, learning spaces can be maximized for concentration by connecting the adolescent's intrinsic learning to the beauty and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 12 Stumble into Grace Jennifer Rogers writes with apt and lyrical snippets from her perspective as a Montessori parent and from her long history as a primary guide. This short piece examines the word "grace" from multiple facets and serves as a meditation that uplifts and reminds…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 11 Profile of a Growing Urban School: The Lumin Experience This fairytale-come-true began with an idealistic public school teacher just out of college who lived in the neighborhood of her students. In stages, working with a community organizing group consisting mainly of concerned parents, Terry Ford founded what is…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 10 Cosmic Education: The Child's Discovery of a Global Vision and a Cosmic Task Susan Mayclin Stephenson tackles a large subject, Cosmic Education, which Montessori defined as a "unifying global and universal view[s] of the past, present and future." Stephenson takes the reader from birth to the end of the elementary age with examples of…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 09 Promoting World Citizenship: A Crucial Area of Study This article probes the vicissitudes of racism and how the multicultural perspectives of a Montessori preschool environment can prevent prejudices. Barbara Hacker is whole-heartedly committed to human unity transcending color differences. Racism is…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 08 Man and SuperNature. Lecture 12, September 27, 1946 "Man and SuperNature" is a lyrical chapter in the 1946 London course following the emergence of Cosmic Education in Kodaikanal, India. Montessori contrasts the adaptation required of animals for their survival to conscious human adaptation. Animals exist and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 07 The Social Roots of a Global Community Polli Soholt points to normalization in the first plane as leading to the successful realization of the human personality, which is the basis of social development. Children who have cultivated concentration and purposeful work at an early age develop the…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 40/2 06 The Montessori Classroom: A Foundation for Global Citizenship Gerard Leonard maps the child's increasingly global environment and sense of citizenship from elementary to adolescence. For the elementary child, an orientation to the local history and geography of their surroundings provides a framework for understanding…
