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NAMTA Journal 13/1 06 Nature, Mother and Teacher: Her Norms

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'Aquinas, T. $1<1111110 Theologica. Thinl Part (Suppl.) Q. 4!l, a.:{. Reprinted in Ci,il<l a11d Frrmily. 16…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 08 Cosmic Education: Sowing Life, Not Theories

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land, to support future races. "21 The emotional depiction of coral as part of a cosmic legacy of doing right by…
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stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 05 The Elementary Curriculum Dialectic: Essentialist vs. Structuralist

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The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 01 Montessori Education: Interactive Idea for Human Understanding

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The quiet in the class when the children were at work was complete and moving. No one had enforced it; and what is more, no…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 02 Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 05 Evolution and the Pre-College Curriculum, Part I—The Human Place in Nature

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9. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Mcu;kin.ery of Nature: The Living World Around Us - And How It Works (New York: Simon and Schuster,…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 07 Montessori and Suzuki

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3. The student demonstrates automatic execution of the skill. E.g: Can you tell me how "0 Come Little Children&…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 01 The Montessori Contribution to Educational Reform—A Prologue

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from tomes of scope and sequence which compel schools into a blind confor- mity. The reform of education in the Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 03 The Meaning of Educational Reform

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that readiness is not only born but made. You make readiness. The general proposition rests on the still deeper truth that a…
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colors of the spectrum, the rainbow. He came to the very counter intuitive, though low elementary conclusion, that white light…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 08 Whole Language: A Whole Educational Reform

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References Atwell, N. (ed.). (1989). Coming to know: Writing to I.earn in the intermediate grades. Ponsmouth, NH. Heinemann…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 01 The Experiment for the Experiment

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Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "…
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Montessori years that come before-for what is laid out in the middle school years as we watch our children bec.ome adults is a…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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at five years of age has become an intelligent being, must have gone through a constructive evolution { TIii! Fonnation of Ma,…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 09 Parents' Perceptions: The Transition of the Public School Montessori Students into Traditional Middle…

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Obviously, many more activities or variations on activities can ease the transition into traditional education. However,…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 07 Needs of the Elementary-Age Child: Montessori Principles, Strategies, and their Practical Implementations

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NEEDS OF THE ELEMENTARY-AGE CHILD MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES, STRATEGIES, AND THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS by Rajendra K.…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 08 The Montessori Adolescent: Frameworks for Invention

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THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum…
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Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the…
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the earth. The origin of life on earth, of humans, farms, cities, and empires is personified in the great lessons as invention…
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invention, it also provides the holistic, integrated basis for clarifying complex tensions between human and natural systems.…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 12 Proposal for a Qualitative Research Component in the Evaluation of Montessori 2000

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implementation of the Montessori model but will provide a wealth of more general information about children's school…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 03 Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education

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ground. New York: Oxford University Press. Opie, I., & Opie, P. (1985). The singing game. New York: Oxford University…

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

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are lo be transformed; instead of frustrating the learner's eager desire for work, as they so often do today, they are to…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 11 Ruffing Montessori School Peace Curriculum: An Informal Narrative

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I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 01 Absorbent Mind Update: Research Sheds New Light on Montessori Theory

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Hopkins, W.G. and Brown, M.C. 0984). Development of Nerve Cells and their Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 05 Whole Language in the Montessori Classroom: Continuing the Story

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Loeffler, Margaret H. (1980). An Investigation of the Relationship of Protowriting (Invented Spelling) and Cognitive…

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

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creation of a public space; Dewey talked consistently about an "articulate public" bringing a public sphere…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 02 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara

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We must avoid placing limits on what a child will want to learn and digest by utilizing formalized curriculum scope and…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 03 Mother-Child Bonding

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Maclean, P. D. 0985b). The triune brain in conflict. Fam.if;y, Play, and the Separation Call, 12. Maturana, H. R., &…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 07 Bribes for Behaving: Why Behaviorism Doesn't Help Children Become Good People

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prosocial motivation: A socialization study. Developmental Psychology, 25, 509-15. Glasser, \VI. (1969).…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 12 Montessori and Learning Disabilities

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NJCLD Cl 988). Position paper on definition of learning disabili- ties. Baltimore: The Orton Dyslexia Society. Orton, J.L. (…

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

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II little real knowledge of it. Instead, it is lo those three essays, and in particular Lo "The Erdkinder,&quot…
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ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing…
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old were eliminated from the.sample. With this correction, the median size is 25 students (n=19). In other words, eliminating…
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schools. Maybe not in our schools, but perhaps in open schools, etc. They should also be academically competent in the…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 05 Nurturing the Growing Brain

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Lambert, N. (1988). Adolescent outcomes for hyperactive children. American Psychologist 43(1), 786-799. Meichenbaum, D. (1977…

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

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Navarra, J. G. (1955). The development of scientific concepts in a young child. New York: Columbia University Bureau of…

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

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Navarra, J. G. (1955). The development of scientific concepts in a young child. New York: Columbia University Bureau of…
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Lambert, N. (1988). Adolescent outcomes for hyperactive children. American Psychologist 43(1), 786-799. Meichenbaum, D. (1977…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 07 Dare to Do Erdkinder: Report from Chicago

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DARE TO Do ERDKINDER: REPORT FROM CHICAGO by John Long "What type of adult does civilization need?" This…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 08 Human Solidarity: Reflections on Chicago

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third plane? Are we not immersed in some necessary creative tension as we strive to bind our present explorations with her…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 11 Montessori and Assessment: Some Issues of Assessment and Curriculum Reform

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1990, p. 37). The fact that the Montes- sori teachers interviewed seemed to spend more time than traditional teachers on…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 04 The Verbal/Linguistic and Visual/Spatial Intelligences

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CONCLUSION Thus far we have looked at two intelligences and their relation- ship to the Montessori materials. We have looked…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 11 The Elements of Social Life and the Montessori Adolescent

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THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT by Linda Davis Linda Davis traces the Montessori view of…
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gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 12 The Normalized School: Montessori as a Way of Life

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with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 16 Book Review—Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood, By Paula…

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Chapter Two, "An Overview of the Primary Years," is an expert portrait of the prepared environment for the…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 01 All-Day Montessori: Notes on the History of the Experiment

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their shelves, place a few toys and mats in the middle of the room, and establish a day care unit for babysitting during the…

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

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The prepared environment must allow for social interaction and be multi-aged. Research sug- gests that "the human…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 11 Self and Evolution

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is because children will enjoy and live more fully and fulfill their potentials. But also because they are more likely to…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 14 Erdkinder under Construction: What the Farm Schools Showed Us

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20 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 01 Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom, A Life's Journey of Educational Ideas

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when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 10 The Importance of Engagement: A Preliminary Analysis

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likelier to have more rewarding relationships with their mothers and fathers than the bored. This should not be surprising,…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 12 The Erdkinder Story: In the Beginning

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now to find out how to do it, from people who set up farms. You must take time now to look in books. You are the makers of…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 15 Story Upon Story

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two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have…

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

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Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were…

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

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participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity…
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They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves…

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

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In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is…

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

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Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the…
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In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is…
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They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves…
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participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity…
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Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 11 The Hand-Thought-Language Nexus

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Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 12 Raising Children Who Care

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Feshbach, Norma Deitch. "Studies of Empathic Behavior in Children." Progress in Experimental Personality…
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Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Landes, William M., & Richard…
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Radke-Yarrow, Marian, Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, & Michael Chapman. "Children's Prosocial Dispositions and…
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Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn. "Conclusions: Lessons from the Past and a Look to the Future." Altruism and Aggression…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 06 Cosmic Education

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COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 09 The Adolescent and the Future

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REFERENCES Gross, Michael. Montessori' s Concept of Personality. Diss. U of Nebraska, 1976. Livingstone, Richard.…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 01 Celebrating Montessori's Great Work: Our Gift for the Future

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Thanks to Charlene Trochta, Charlotte Kovach Shea, Carol Alver, Sanford Jones; thanks to David Kahn and everyone else who…

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

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Koch, S., & D. Leary, eds. A Century of Psychology as Scie11ce. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Lerner, R. 011 the…

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

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of his or her own favored styles of communicating with others and of which styles of others' expressive communication…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 08 Cosmic Sense, Sensibility, and Written Expression: From Childhood to Adolescence

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what they said; some were pessimistic. The adolescent needs some- thing more than logic to have an optimistic view of…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 01 An Overview of Adolescence

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emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane&quot…
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appear more like a traditional junior high in miniature in some cases. But beneath this veneer of traditional time blocks and…
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Place-a place for adolescents to experience as a whole: a place that is an island of green for beholding, a place to work and…
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ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 08 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara

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Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 09 Helping the Adolescent Personality

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We need to provide an environ- ment where children can experi- ence community, affirmation, love, and support first and…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 17 Erdkinder: The Experiment for the Experiment (Interview with Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson and A.M…

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soul, is to be strong enough for life, for the mission, to overcome obstacles, to acquire more ability than already given by…
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ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g…

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

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... adolescents prove to be good teachers for small children who feel a certain repulsion for very adult personalities who…

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

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in the sequence of activities, stronger mentoring relationships and community ties, and multifaceted tasks and problems that…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 36 The Development of a Montessori High School as an Extension of the Farm School

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Erikson, E. H. Young Man Luther. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958. Gardner, H. Creating Minds. New York: Basic…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 01 Aligning Montessori Schools with True Montessori Essentials

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ALIGNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by David Kahn As 250 Montessori schools in North America…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 04 Reading, Writing, and Mathematics: Explored and Discovered Rather Than Taught

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to function in this way, it must be ordered and complete: The shelves must manifest the sequence so the children understand…

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

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and their expanding intellect (97-109). The prepared environment of the Erdkinder includes a working farm, a "museum…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 05 Work

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Unfortunately, adolescence is a period of life when society puts its young people in a hold· ing pattern. The frustration…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 01 Montessori and Optimal Experience Research: Toward Building a Comprehensive Education Reform

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MONTESSORI AND OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE RESEARCH: TOWARD BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION REFORM by David Kahn ON NORMALIZATION…

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

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REFERENCES Ames, C. "Classrooms: Goals, Structures, and Student Motivation." Journal of Educational…
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Feldlaufer, H., C. Midgley, & J.S. Eccles. "Student, Teacher, and Observer Perceptions of the Classroom…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 08 Extensio Animae and Magna

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EXTENSIO ANIMAE AD MAGNA by Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme explain the philosophy of two…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 02 Places for Belonging: From Womb to Home to Montessori School

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Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 10 The Adolescent and the Family: Love and Limits

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computer I cell phone ban. She and her father jokingly referred to the period of withdrawal that she experienced from her…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 11 Project 2012: History Whither Bound from Childhood to Adolescence?

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* * * In the Erdkinder Appendices of From Childhood to Adolescence, Montessori presents the next logical step for history as…
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Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966…

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