Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/2 10 Working with Parents: Building the Spirit through Collaboration Offers suggestions for facilitating collaboration between families and schools, based on experience in Montessori education. Advocates gaining trust through regular informal social gatherings of parents and principal, pointing out that trust can help parents…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/2 07 The Evolving Nature of Work Defines work built around a systems view of consumers and producers to characterize work as seen through different cultures as a mingling of enjoyment. Shows how emerging agricultural settlements and cities resulted in families assuming inherited work or…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/2 08 The Good Work Examines the working lives of geneticists and journalists to place into perspective what lies behind personal ethics and success. Defines "good work" as productive activity that is valued socially and loved by people engaged in it. Asserts that certain…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/2 05 Work Draws upon Maria Montessori's writings to examine work as a universal human tendency throughout life. Discusses the work of adaptation of the infant, work of "psycho-muscular organism" for the preschooler, work of the imagination for the elementary child,…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/2 06 True Work: Discovering the Path to Self-Perfection through the Prepared Environment Considers 3- to 6-year-olds' work cycle, looking first to the Montessori concept of normalization, manifest as increasing depth of concentration. Offers guidelines for a "protected lesson," designed to foster independence. Discusses interest and purpose as…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/2 04 Redefining Who We Are: The Work of Learning Community Facing Adolescents/Facing Ourselves It is within the prepared environment of the adolescent learning community that the adult comes into full connection with Montessori's universal picture of optimal development. Adolescents' search for meaning enables adults to come to a clearer understanding…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 28/1 12 Ecosystem in the Backyard—Preparing a Diverse Outdoor Environment for Primary (Ages Three to Six) Children Chronicles the outdoor work of Lincoln Montessori School in Nebraska in prairie, forest, and indoor greenhouse environments, highlighting the application of prepared environment principles to the natural world. Highlights how implicit to the design are…
