Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 19 The Kibbutz, Boy’s Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 17 Erdkinder: The Experiment for the Experiment (Interview with Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson and A.M…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 15 A New Education for the Secondary School – A Public Lecture given at Utrecht, January 18, 1937 (Original… Maintains that moral education should be at the foundation of educational reform and that education should prepare adolescents to find their place in society. Asserts that secondary level instruction, provided in a rural neutral environment and with…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 16 Twenty-Eighth Lecture of the Twenty-Third International Montessori Course, Amsterdam, January-June, 1938,… Considers the relationship between elementary and secondary education. Asserts that mixed-aged groups with a difference of 3 years promote cooperation and mutual support. Discusses scouting and sports as a means of fulfilling the void of purely academic…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 14 Dr. Montessori's Third Lecture Given at the Montessori Congress in Oxford, England, 1936 Presents the underlying assumptions for the Erdkinder concept of educating adolescents. Discusses the importance of independence and social life beyond the family, the necessary environmental awareness for youth in the context of civilization, the meaning…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 13 The Pedagogy of Place Examines adolescents' study of place from the perspective of urban and rural Montessori programs. Adolescents are invited into a study of the city or town or even a neighborhood surrounding the school as an opportunity to experience their own community and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 12 Pedagogy of Place: Using the Prepared Environment for the Third Plane
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 26/3 09 Helping the Adolescent Personality Asserts that adolescents within Montessori environments continue to use creative imagination to develop the self and still need concrete materials and manipulative tasks. Maintains that a degree of independence must be allowed for adolescents to form the…
