Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 08 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 07 Ruffing Montessori School Peace Curriculum: An Informal Narrative
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 03 The Culture of Civility: The Cohesion of the Social Community Draws on a comparison of the characteristics of early childhood and early adolescence to comment on the culture of civility for adolescents. Discusses how Montessori adolescent psychology reiterates the role of the environment, the importance of work, the…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 09 Process Writing: Finding Flow in Adolescent Self-Expression Describes one teacher's approach to process writing, a mainstay for Montessori adolescent classrooms. The premise of the method is that everyone has the natural potential to write and that the emergence of the inner voice must be nurtured by extended…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/2 07 The Historical Genesis of the Parts of Speech This essay explores the history of the parts of speech and how individual acquisition of grammar may recapitulate history's discovery of the parts of speech and their related patterns. This history of grammar has been incorporated into a program called …