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Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-…
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answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-…
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answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 11 Research: Child-Initiated Activity: How Important is it in Early Childhood Education?

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CHILD-INITIATED ACTIVITY: HOW IMPORTANT IS IT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION? by Lawrence J. Schweinhart Child-initiated…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 13 Building Correlations: Montessori Education for Moral Development

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work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 07 Cosmic Education and the Physical Sciences

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Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 01 To Be or Not To Be Montessori

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TO BE OR NOTTO BE MONTESSORI by David Kahn Profound differences in thmry are never gratuitnus or invented. They grow out of…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 03 Movement

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sensorially, they are simultaneously absorbing the world into them- selves. Children build their conception of self and…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 09 The Hand in Education (1971)

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THE HAND IN EDUCATION a971) by A. M. Joosten One aspect of Montessori educatwn that sets it apart from some other…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 02 Educational Reform: The Sixties and the Nineties

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the young in the way they should go, on rearing them to meet the demands of industry, there were always adversary voices -…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 04 The Objectives of the Paideia Proposal

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With the advent of democratic instirutions so very recent, it is not surpris- ing that we have not yet established a…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 01 The Experiment for the Experiment

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projects of action they recogniu as their own ( The Diakaic of Frttdmn, 1988, p.12). Like the highly formative· early…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 06 Developing The Mathematical Mind

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References Bjorklund, D.F. ( l 989). Children's thinking: developmental function and individual differences. Pacific…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 09 A Model of the Maturing Person

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Japanese adolescents to pass their university entrance exams results in psychic collapse and hostile resistance to and Aighr…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 07 Some Thoughts about the Spiritual Development of the Teacher

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a prepared environment to act freely, Montessori came to a fundamental realization: "The child works for his own…
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The Prepared Environment: Building a Way of Life, Not Just a Curriculum To retain the emotional vigor which underlies…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 08 What Are the Language Arts For?

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computes, but it does not serve to thematize or articulate what is actually lived (1966, p. 46). To teach the young to think…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 02 The Ecology of the Mind

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When Maria Montessori speaks of man, she often uses ::i c::ipit::il "M.'. What does this capital letter…
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of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every…

NAMTA Journal 19/3 01 Survey of Montessori Adolescent Programs: Interpretive Commentary

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to this survey, only the Franciscan Montessori Earth School in Portland, Oregon, gives adolescents an Erdkinder experience of…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 11 Equal Opportunity and the Montessori Magnet School

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Transformational Schools Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) helped…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 14 In Memoriam: Nancy McCormick Rambusch 1927-1994

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Transformational Schools Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) helped…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 14 Universality of the Special Child

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REFERENCES Coles, G. (1987). The learning mystique: A critical look at learning disabilities. New York: Pantheon Books.…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 07 Peace Through Education

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PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION by Maria Montessori, MD, and Mario M. Montessori, PhD "Educational reform cannot be…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 11 Do Not Bequeath a Shamble—The Child in the Twenty-First Century: Innocent Hostage to Mindless Oppression…

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Do NoT BEQUEATH A SHAMBLE THE CHILD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: INNOCENT HOSTAGE TO MINDLESS OPPRESSION OR MESSENGER TO…
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food triage, depressingly, has been considered as a serious option on the grounds that in time, there will be enough food for…
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helping us to cut between the twin pitfalls of sentimentality and indifference in our relationship to children. Third, we can…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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THE FOUR PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by Camillo Grazzini Camillo Grazzini presents two charts designed by Maria Montessori to…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 05 All-Day Montessori: Making It Work

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importance of modelling appropriate behavior not merely for the children but for their parents as well! REFERENCES Corbett,…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 05 Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 11 Philosophy Statement for the North Avondale Montessori School

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Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Harper Collins. Healy, J.M. (1990). Endangered…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 03 The Botanical Cards

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Laren, Holland THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori The Botanical Cards are one of the items of the Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 06 The Unconscious in History

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Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 09 Spiritual Outlook and the Child

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SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK AND THE CHILD by Mario M. Montessori edited by Renilde Montessori Last month, in Edinburgh, Professor A.J…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 02 World Odyssey: Revelations of the Possible

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The influence and success of Montessori education far exceeds even the worldwide recognition of the ideas of John Dewey. How…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 03 Past, Present, and Possible: A Montessori Global Perspective

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Pearce,Joseph Chilton. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 04 The Integration of Cultures: The Montessori Contribution

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.. . by talking about Montessori edu- cation in terms of its theoretical roots, we are not talking about something which is…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 11 A Montessori Community for Adolescents

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community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 01 The Spiritual Development of the Child: Keeping the Balance

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center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 10 Cosmos, History, and the Human Spirit

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Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 02 The Casa Dei Bambini: A Century Concept

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One of the aspects that distinguishes the Montessori approach to human development is that its theoretical framework emerged…
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Montessori, Maria. "The Four Planes of Education." AMI Communications (1971, #4), 4-10. Montessori, Maria.…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 04 The Casa Dei Bambini: Paths to Culture

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REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 10 Pedagogy of Place: Becoming Erdkinder, The Montessori Program Design School, Program Design Position…

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drawn up gradually under the guidance of experience" (111). Peda- gogy of Place draws on the experience of…
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• Within these limits, the occupation demands knowledge, which may involve measurement, refinement of the senses, precision,…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 12 Encouraging the Creative Voice of the Child

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I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any…
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are foisted upon children until it becomes very difficult for them to figure out what they're interested in, what might…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 13 Montessori and Early Childhood Education: A Contemporary Perspective

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HISTORY Of course, Maria Montessori' s work encountered detractors from the beginning 1 . Close on the heels of her…
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Lepper, M.R. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Chil- dren: Detrimental Effects of Superfluous Social Con- trols…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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Lepper, M.R. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Chil- dren: Detrimental Effects of Superfluous Social Con- trols…
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HISTORY Of course, Maria Montessori' s work encountered detractors from the beginning 1 . Close on the heels of her…
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are foisted upon children until it becomes very difficult for them to figure out what they're interested in, what might…
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I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any…
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• Within these limits, the occupation demands knowledge, which may involve measurement, refinement of the senses, precision,…
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drawn up gradually under the guidance of experience" (111). Peda- gogy of Place draws on the experience of…
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REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,…
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Montessori, Maria. "The Four Planes of Education." AMI Communications (1971, #4), 4-10. Montessori, Maria.…
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One of the aspects that distinguishes the Montessori approach to human development is that its theoretical framework emerged…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 03 Montessori in Early Childhood: Positive Outcomes along Social, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional Dimensions

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• an anxious concern for life • love for people and things • emotional wellness • warm, expressive, outgoing, and optimistic…
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Montessori, Maria. "Child's Instinct to Work [Lecture, London, 1939]." AMI Communications (1973, #4): 6…
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Montessori, Mario M.,Jr. Education for Human Development. NY: Schocken, 1976. Montessori, Renilde. "Human Education…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 06 The Genius of Montessori History

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gogy as Applied to Child Education in "The Children's Houses." 1909. Trans. Anne E. George. New York:…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 03 The First Plane of Development

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THE FIRST PLANE OF DEVELOPMENT by Margaret E. Stephenson One of the more significant principles of Dr. Montessori was her…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 04 Plan Which Will Best Produce the Results Montessori Can Give

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PLAN WHICH WILL BEST PRODUCE THE RESULTS MONTESSORI CAN GIVE by Margaret E. Stephenson The Montessori class should begin…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 07 Independence

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INDEPENDENCE by Margaret E. Stephenson I would like to begin by linking independence to this one definition of man: one…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 02 Montessori Education and Optimal Experience: A Framework for the New Research

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areas (see also Rathunde, "The Context of Optimal Experience"; Rathunde, "Family Context and the…
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mobility does not come under increased control with maturity, it results inan unproductive pattern of mind-wandering in…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 03 Literary Approaches for the Child Under Six

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herself how a moment's insight is captured in the seventeen syllables of haiku, translated from the Japanese. As with…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 05 Homo Loquens: Language in the Context of Cosmic Education

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Because man is the talking animal, because language is so crucial to the human being and his life, language in the Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 19 The Kibbutz, Boy’s Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder

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The urban school that functions as a prerequisite to Erdkindercan continue to foster the same Montessori. attitudes that have…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 23 A Historical Look at Montessori's Erdkinder

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all contributed to a spirit of reevalua tion and reform in education that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 24 The Origins of Agrarianism and the Development of the Self

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*Kahn, David. "The Kibbutz, Boys' Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder." NAMT A Quarterly 4.…
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Marchetti, Maria Teresa. "La scuola per gli adolescenti- IJI." Vita del/'lnfanzia 2.3 (1953) 7+.…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 34 Towards a Positive Education for Adolescents: An Example from the Humanities

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that assessed the ability to discriminate various tastes, smells, sounds, and textures, the study found that these individuals…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 04 Part II: Further Implications

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The Lord is in charge; He is the All-Mighty. That is understood as to say, He acts in nature, the particles obey Him, He does…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 10 Cosmic Education: Linking the Human to the Universe

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Questions and Answers Q: T have two questions. What's the last point you mentioned that the spiritual issues are…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 05 The Whole Elementary Experience: Ages Six to Twelve

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care about the development of the child. In a lecture given in 1939 in London, Dr. Montessori said: The child is not only the…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 08 Philosophy, Psychology, and Educational Goals for the Montessori Adolescent, Ages Twelve to Fifteen

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Hutchison in their descriptions of the educational value of place. Place builds a context for social relations; it is the…
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academic study: "work on the land is an introduction both to nature and to civilization and gives a limitless field…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 05 Work

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"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 02 A Comparison of Montessori and Traditional Middle Schools: Motivation, Quality of Experience, and Social…

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about their momentary experience. Students in both samples also completed a detailed questionnaire with similar questions…
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In addition to the comparison of the Montessori and traditional students, Figure 1 also provides additional interesting…
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ported undivided interest only 24% of the time. The primary experi- ence for the traditional students was what John Dewey…
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foJlowed by the genius. His characteristics are absorbed attention, a profound concentration which isolates him from all the…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 03 NAMTA's Middle School Research Hits the Mark

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experience (flow) theory, but I know they had studied the thought of Maria Montessori. What I saw at each of the schools were…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 04 The Four Planes of Development

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matter. One might almost say they represent a kind of distillation of her thinking, observation, and reflection over many,…
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Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 05 On Geometry Classified Nomenclature

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ON GEOMETRY CLASSIFIED NOMENCLATURE by Camillo Grazzini The Geometry Classified Nomenclature is a material we provide for…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 07 Maria Montessori and Algebra: The Binomial Theorem

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MARIA MONTESSORI AND ALGEBRA: THE BINOMIAL THEOREM by Camillo Grazzini translated from Italian by Irene Fafalios A boy of…
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Montessori, Maria. "Psycho Geometry and Psycho Arith- metic." Introduction, notes, and drawings by C.…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 08 On the Subject of Subjects

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ON THE SUBJECT OF SUBJECTS by Baiba Krumins and Camillo Grazzini This particular matter has cropped up in so many guises and…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 09 Question and Answer: The Environment for the Six to Twelve Year Old Child

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QUESTION AND ANSWER: THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE Six- TO TWELVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD by Camillo Grazzini and Baiba Krumins Camillo…
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summed up in the request "help me to think by myself." This new- found need for mental (and moral)…
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differences also by providing each elementary environment (be it six to nine or nine to twelve) with a full set of advanced…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 10 Introduction to "Keys to the World: The Second Plane of Education"

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INTRODUCTION TO uKEYS TO THE WORLD: THE SECOND PLANE OF EDUCATION" by Camillo Grazzini Forty-three years ago,…
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An example that can help clarify this is one given by Maria Montessori herself when she writes: [In the first period, there]…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 11 Contrasting Land and Water Forms: The Method in Practice

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CONTRASTING LAND AND WATER FORMS: THE METHOD IN PRACTICE by Camillo Grazzini INTRODUCTION In the Children's House and…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 12 Characteristics of the Child in the Elementary School

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHILD IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL by Carnillo Grazzini WHERE Is THIS CHILD? A child of elementary…
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environment. He is like the spider, whose web, whose field of action, is enormous in comparison to the animal itself (…

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