Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 13 The Montessori Erdkinder: Three Abstracts Describes three projects: (1) the Laufenburg Ranch Project, a historical organic farm and agricultural and environmental education center; (2) the Hershey Montessori School's efforts to teach adolescents about the earth; and (3) the Lake Country School, which…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/2 01 Absorbent Mind Update: Research Sheds New Light on Montessori Theory Explores Maria Montessori's notion that a young child's brain is significantly different from an adult's and that young children develop according to a series of predictable "sensitive periods." Cites numerous empirical studies that support these and other…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 11 Ruffing Montessori School Peace Curriculum: An Informal Narrative Describes a curriculum for eighth graders that involves students' narratives of personal conflict experiences, study of a book on the methods and rules of war, characterizations of individuals involved with war, expression of a personal vision of peace, and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 09 Expand the Head Start Program—by Revamping Chapter 1 Examines the failure of Project Follow Through and Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to sustain the progress made by Head Start through the school years. Discusses the Head Start Transition Project, established in demonstration sites in…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 10 Autism and Montessori: Old Wisdom, New Ideas Explains autism and discusses the effects of autism on one autistic boy. Describes Children as Teachers, a reverse mainstreaming project in which children in the regular Montessori classes volunteered to interact with autistic children. The natural structure…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 07 Some Thoughts about the Spiritual Development of the Teacher Discusses the reciprocal relationship between the Montessori child and teacher that provides spiritual rejuvenation to the teacher. The key to teachers' spiritual development can be found in Montessori's insights into the true nature of the child.
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 08 The Intellectual Lives of Teachers Recommends that inservice teacher education challenge the intellectual development of teachers. Discusses the learning process of teachers, and profiles activities in specific elementary and secondary schools intended to benefit students' learning. Suggests…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 06 Establishing a Personal Teacher Identity Discusses identity as the development of functional and intellectual independence and as an involvement in such aspects of life as intimacy, sexuality, and vocation that give one a sense of belonging to the world. Suggests that establishing identity is an on…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 18/1 05 The Development of Autonomy in Children: An Examination of the Montessori Educational Model Examined the nature and degree of autonomous behavior among groups of elementary students from Montessori schools and from traditional public schools. Results indicated that Montessori students demonstrated higher levels of independence, initiative, and self…
