Digital Object NAMTA Journal 23/1 02 Beyond Bribes and Threats: How Not to Get Control of the Classroom Defines the distinction between a "doing to" approach to children as the imposition of adult will on children and the "working with" approach as good listening, responsive teaching, and a collaborative approach of community-building. Challenges Montessori…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 13 Discovering the Hidden Person Working from normalization theory, uses a graphical metaphor to illustrate the liberation of the "hidden self." Explains the layers of the metaphor, the "false person," the "intelligent, rational person," and the "hidden person," and offers several ways…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 14 The Growth of Complexity: Shaping Meaningful Lives As an outgrowth of the theory of flow, looks at some fine distinctions regarding the adolescent's optimal conditions for growth. Points to the importance of the adolescent's ability to reinterpret conflicts which crop up in raw experience, to overcome psychic…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 12 The Spiritual Regeneration of Man Recasts the role of normalization as "spiritual regeneration," looking to the unleashing of new intellectual powers and the child's emancipation from typical deviations. Suggests the adult may become normalized by experiencing normality in children and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 11 The Normalized Child Describes characteristics of the normalized child, the ultimate goal of Montessori education. First outlines children's basic needs, then describes traits of the normalized child, including love of order, work, silence and working alone; mutual aid and…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 10 Normalization and Normality Across the Planes of Development Clarifies the meanings of the terms "normalization" and "normality," broadens the discussion of normality beyond Montessori's first plane of development, and explores the unique conditions conducive to normality in the second and third planes.
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 08 Character and Moral Development Reflects on the ways in which children develop character as well as ways to foster moral development in elementary education communities. Includes a brief discussion of Robert Coles' documentation of moral intelligence in children, and lists several ways to…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 09 Integrating Csikszentmihalyi and Montessori Makes comparisons between theories implicit to flow and similar ideas integral to Montessori's thought. Points of similarity include universality, the foundation on practical experiences, the reference to subconscious activity, the call for challenge to spark…
Digital Object NAMTA Journal 22/2 07 The Prepared Environment Asserts that adults are not only responsible for preparing the Montessori environment, but more importantly constitute a living environment in and of themselves. Urges Montessori teachers to be an effective link between the child and the environment by…
