Digital Object NAMTA Journal 39/1 05 Blending Differing Perspectives of Parents and Guides: Meeting Parents Where They Are and Bringing Them… Maura Joyce's clear approach to initiating parent education is to recognize where the parents are on their own journey as parents. By listening to the parents' hopes, fears, and desired outcomes for their children acknowledges the family's perspective and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 39/1 06 The Montessori Adolescent and the Pedagogy of Journey Another historic Montessori essay puts into writing a landmark activity in the middle school world: the school Odyssey trip. This type of trip challenges the group's ability to cooperate around daily living and is combined with the "testimony of the spade"…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 39/1 04 Resilient Communities: An Ecological Perspective Tom Wessel's view of interdependent local ecologies lays out a conceptual framework for human communities and corporations. His rich examples of biodiversity provide great metaphors for how competition and negative conditions can be transformed by natural…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 39/1 03 The Natural World as Prepared Environment Louise Chawla's autobiographical beginning of this article shows the integration of her world-famous science of the environment and its relationship to early and middle childhood development as it finds its roots in Montessori education. Her academic training…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 39/1 02 Children's House: The Prepared Environment as an Oasis Cheryl Ferreira vigorously pursues the Montessori principles that are implicit for preparing a classroom where "children find all that is needed to work at self-formation and to maximize their inner potential." The Montessori philosophy is precisely conveyed…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 39/1 01 Community: A Hallmark of Our Approach All the basics of the Montessori prepared environment are put into an extraordinary context of community and nurturing through personal encounter. The article emphasizes the longitudinal impact of an intentional community that results in character and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 38/2 10 Playful Learning and Montessori Education Although Montessori education is often considered a form of playful learning, Maria Montessori herself spoke negatively about a major component of playful learning--pretend play, or fantasy--for young children. In this essay, the author discusses this…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 38/2 08 Quilt-Making in the Elementary Class As our world becomes more and more technological, it is essential that we remember that one of the main ways the child's brain develops is through meaningful work of the hand. Monica Nixon, the founder and director of Mountain Laurel Montessori School in…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 38/2 09 Sacred Second Jennifer Rogers is emerging as a polished and prolific Montessori writer, and Sacred Second is a testimony to the pen. She explains the three-period lesson and the importance of the child doing the work of the second period that is enriched by experience and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 38/2 07 Work of the Hand through the Curriculum and across the Planes of Development: A Compilation of Creative… This article and the one that follows, "Quilt-Making in the Elementary Class" (EJ1077043), emerge from Mountain Laurel Montessori School and provide examples of the intrinsic links between the hand and academic lessons. This article features a compilation of…
