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

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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This cosmic fable begins something like this: I know of a marvelous nation, a marvelous country where the inhabitants are…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…
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The first is like a river which carries substances to all parts of the body. But it acts also as a collector. In fact, the…
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beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori…
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In this lecture, Montessori explores at great length her idea of the "union among the peoples," "…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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This cosmic fable begins something like this: I know of a marvelous nation, a marvelous country where the inhabitants are…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…
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The first is like a river which carries substances to all parts of the body. But it acts also as a collector. In fact, the…
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beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori…
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In this lecture, Montessori explores at great length her idea of the "union among the peoples," "…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 01 The Montessori Vision of Adolescence

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v1s10n of early adolescence, not about all of this period of development. Also, it is my opinion that Montessorians have a…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 02 The Farm Experience: Its Importance in a Child's Life

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having lived among them for 11 years I know from experience that they have many fewer problems than those of the English…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 03 An Overview of Adolescence

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Montessori explains that, "The teacher must have the greatest respect for the personality of the adolescent,…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 04 Humanities: The Group Explores

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sound is concerned;' Dr. Maria Montessori said in The Montessori Elementary Material. "It follows that reading…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 08 Montessori and Daycare: Making a Dinstiction

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It also allows the aide and one or two of the children time to set the lunch tables without disturbing anyone.) As the…
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prepared environment throughout all the hours that they spend in the Children's House. Surely we cannot ignore Dr.…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 01 Montessori, Poverty and the Special Child

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condescend, we mutter hurried excuses and flee because we do not understand. There are millions of people who have difficulty…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 05 School Profiles: Milwaukee: Ten Constructive and Influential Years, 1976-1986

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• Children's House classes have full-time assistants. • Elementary classes have half-time assistants. • An art…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 06 School Profiles: Cincinnati: Development the Montessori Magnet School

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CINCINNATI: DEVELOPING THE MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL by Phyllis J. Williams Building and Grounds Crew North Avondale…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 08 School Profiles: Red Cloud Indian School's Montessori Program

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recommend it to the school and community on the Pine Ridge Reser- vation, and even to the state of South Dakota. The location…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 10 Research: The Montessori Research: A Review of the Literature

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Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49…

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…
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five-year-olds are not ready for academic kindergartens and that developmental kindergartens should serve all children, not…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 12 Building Correlations: Cosmic Education and Moral Development, Part I

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BUILDING CORRELATIONS: COSMIC EDUCATION AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT Part One by David Kahn Looking at the classical Montessori…

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

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be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 02 Parent Involvement in a Montessori Program: The Denver Public School Experience

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instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 03 Elementary Montessori and Parent Education

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Maria Montessori observed many times that a family's children are often not treated as well as their guests. Yet our…
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I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began…
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final point. It is the passages that characterize the Montessori Method. If we say the passages are not the important thing we…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 04 The Roots of Discipline

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THE ROOTS OF DISCIPLINE by Lili E. Peller Ms. Peller begins with a Montessori definition of discipline, and then shows a…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 08 The Pure Wonder of Young Lives

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wonder is sometimes filled with exclamation, but it is as often silent. Children are led into contemplation of what is before…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 11 The Nature and Theory of Silence Activities in the Children's House

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THE NATURE AND THEORY OF SILENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE by Mary Black Verschuur Ph.D With the incisiveness…
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is expanded and we have the opportunity to reach out towards things which are normally beyond ow· reach, widening our horizons…
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"' A.M. Joosten "The Silence Lesson" in AMI Co1111111111icalio11~ 4:(19(i7) 27. "Tape…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 14 AMI Montessori: Back to the Future

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basically teachers turned trainers. How objectively valid is that pro- cess in terms of maintaining Montessori heritage?…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 01 The Botanical Cards

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THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 02 On Bubbles and Such

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ON BUBBLES AND SUCH by C. A. Claremont Dr. Clarernont's ability to personify aspects of physics, to isolate the…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 03 Interview: The Kodaikanal Experience (Kahn-Montessori Interview)

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THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her…

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

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This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori…
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his self-made environment in a condition that may permit human life to evolve toward a dignified existence for everyone. This…
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Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the…
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If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest…
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With this last statement she relates to a concept that later educators have called "exemplary learning."…
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Physics sometimes is seen as dealing with the lifeless nature as opposed to biology dealing with life in nature. It is true…
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placement is that all these experiments provide fundamental impres- sions, sensorial experiences or understanding of phenomena…
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Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,…

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

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have little to do with science for science's sake, but rather is an expres- sion of a philosophical view which in turn…
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This not to abandon the scientific rigors of the material to be pre- sented to the child. Montessori is quite clear in that…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 11 Letting Go and Letting Montessori, Part II: Resolving Parental Resistance to the Separation from their…

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Just as we are taught to gently and lovingly receive the child into our classroom environments, we must learn to gently and…
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Maria Montessori said it so well in the Absorbent Mind:5 Have not all our efforts been aimed at removing obstacles from the…

NAMTA Journal 13/3 01 Introduction

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is to analyze research on the Montessori method of education and its effects…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 01 Performance of Montessori Graduates in Public School Classrooms

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poverty cycle for low socioeconomic status families is to provide a quality educational program that also focuses on parenting…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 03 Montessori and Cultural Diversity

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Multi-Cultural MONTESSORI AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY by Alice Renton Ms. Renton characterizes Montessori /,earning with a…
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help her adapt to the conditions of the present. 1n describing a particu- lar civilization or culture, she understood well…
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In our work of prepruing the environment, our first task is to know, respect, and utilize as fully as possible the culture to…
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child's spirit. It explains why adults engaged in the process of concien- tizacibn often seek a freeing educational…
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not only repressed but effectively killed the child within himself. As MonteS.50ri put it in The Fonnal:ion of Man, we have…
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what was thought possible for children. It is with courage and daring that we must now reaffirm the third level of ascent in…

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

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Footnotes l Sofia Cavalletti, "The Spiritual Development of the Child," Montessori Thlks to Par- ents,…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 06 The Montessori Middle School: A Personal Witness

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School?;• and to be very much conscious of what we were trying to accomplish. The children became Montessorians. If treated…
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interest, not to teach or to explain something. Again less is more - present too little, not too much. It is the student'…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 07 Montessori: The Humanities Connection—Minneapolis, March 2-4 1989 (Conference)

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Maria Montessori was well versed in philosophy. Her footnotes include allusions to Sequin, Tolstoi, Froebal, Pascal, Poincare…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 09 The Acquisition of Spoken Language, The Nebula Hypothesis

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rational behaviorist thought that the small child could hide within him "spiritual germs" or "…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 01 The Mainstreaming of Montessori in America

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THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 02 The Art of Inquiry

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Humanities HUMAMITIES AND THE ART OF INQUIRY by Edwin J. Delattre Dr. Delattre's incisive summary of the role of…
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we have discovered ourselves, over generations, to be. As Maria Montessori-and earlier, Aristotle-understood, the natu- ral…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 07 Preliminary Report on the Educational Effectiveness of a Montessori School in the Public Sector

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Research PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF A MONTESSORI SCHOOL IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR by Tim Duax Dr.…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 09 Exposing the Elementary Child to the World of Chemistry

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a concept of atoms and molecules. We cannot present chemistry any further without an understanding of these substances and…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 12 Interview: Introducing Luciano Mazzetti

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INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center…
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from one learning stage to the next, the first must be completely mastered. But Bruner implies that the conceptualization…

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

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the widest range of principles and doctrines put forth by various psychologists and educators. Every philosophical education…
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that of the father; it is a fear of being helpless in the face of disaster- helpless to protect one's children-and again…

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

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GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Edwin Delattre Delattre's wide range of human experience,…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 03 Response to Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other (Boehnlein)

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RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH (YfHER by Mary Maher Boehnlein Good morning. I am honored…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 04 Response to Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other (Terranova)

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RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn for…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 02 Normalization

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NORMALIZATION by Chulanganee Fernando Ms. Fernando J>resents an in-depth mew of the genesis of the i,dea of…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 04 The Role of the Practical Life Exercises in the Development of Equilibrium

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already present in them so that the ext.ension and abduction of the lifted leg were to be observed with displacement of the…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 07 Montessori and Suzuki

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MONTESSORI AND SUZUKI by Linda K. Thompson "'1ierever there is Mon-tessori, there are usually Suzuki Institutes…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 08 Multicultural Dimensions of Montessori: Philosophy and Method

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1. What opportunities are present for each individual to develop his or her unique potentials? 2. To what degree is each…
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we can virtually watch them incarnating the environment), and with other humans. From three to six, we help the child's…
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complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&…
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developmental bilingualism, community outreach, and neighborhood redevelopment. In Mexico, Montessori environments have been…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 09 Montessori Education for All

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5. &8'pect for the child and tke aault and for the Casa (Children's House) is an im-portant part of life.…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 10 Montessori Education and Children Placed at Risk of School Failure

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third of all American children. Several states already have school populations where minority children are in the majority.…
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Staff Development Montessorians should provide assistance to schools and districts in the effort to improve staff development…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 02 The Child from Birth to Three

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THE CHILD FROM BIRTH TO THREE by Dr. Maria Montessori I have spoken to you about the great problem of the psychology of the…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 03 The Vision of the Assistant to Infancy according to Costa Gnocchi

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from the upper classes seeking preparation for marriage. Some of them were enthusiastic until they began to feel the iron…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 05 A Tribute to the Infant Class Tradition (A Photo Essay)

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A TRIBUTE TO THE INFANT CLASS TRADITION A PHOTO ESSAY by Rita Messineo Rita Messineo annotates this pi,cwrial essay…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 14 Family Star: Montessori in Community Life

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Maria Montessori said, ''We have nothing to hope from the external world till the normalization of man is recognized…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 02 Albert M. Joosten—A Biography

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ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 03 The Montessori Movement (1956)

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THE MONTESSORI MOVEMENT (1956) by A.M. Joosten The development of the Montessori movement i.s followed from, Mon- tessori s…
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world," "the new world for a new man," based not on ideas or ideals, but on facts and realities to…
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director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries…
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were conducted with sufficient fidelity to the method, and the name was sometimes used as if it were an advertisement. The…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 04 The Social Question of the Child (1966)

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THE SOCIAL QUESTION OF THE CIDLD a966) by A.M. Joosten Hiswrically, children have been regarded as pe-adults without rights…
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ality, let us then also recognize that it was built on respect for the child in this capacity, on recognition of his place in…

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