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

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

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 13/1 01 Of Roots and Wings

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OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 03 Elementary Montessori and Parent Education

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I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began…

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

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"' A.M. Joosten "The Silence Lesson" in AMI Co1111111111icalio11~ 4:(19(i7) 27. "Tape…

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 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 13/2 10 Exploring with the Nine to Twelve Child

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scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The…

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 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…

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

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The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete…

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 16/3 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not…
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&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in…
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this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu…

NAMTA Journal 17/3 28 The Children's Garden

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The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 01 Reinventing Montessori: Perils and Possibilities

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educationalese all have a purpose. But in my estimation they represent exercises in minutiae-the kind of minutiae that…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 06 Literature and Grammar

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There are dozens of words that you can pick out to give to children. Bankrupt means someone whose bench has been broken (rupto…
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it. Here are the symbols for the ~ansitive and the intransitive, the infinitive, and the verb to be for auxiliary use. Of…
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my school like the plague one year. Do you know it? There was a youth and a well-beloved youth And he was a squire's son…
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Never more; Miranda Miranda Never more. Only the high peak's hoar; And Aragon a torrent at the door. No sound In…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 07 Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and History: Uses and Classification

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FOLK TALES, FAIRY TALES, AND HISTORY USES AND CLASSIFICATION by Francesca Claremont 'Jbe article that follows is…
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hadn't got. So he retired and went back to Germany. That is the scale. Of course, it is very, very important from a…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 07 A World Core Curriculum

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 13 Discipline

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NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 03 Nurturing the Creative Personality

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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…
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You, the teacher, with your knowledge and attitudes about guiding the process of normalization, are the most important part of…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 04 Montessori as an Aid to Life

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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 07 Cosmic Education and Literature-Based Teaching

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and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is…

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

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and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is…
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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…
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You, the teacher, with your knowledge and attitudes about guiding the process of normalization, are the most important part of…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…
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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 09 Claude Claremont's Contribution to the History of Science and Engineering

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CLAUDE CLAREMONT' S CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING by Harvey R. Hallenberg Claude A. Claremont…
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the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of…
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great chasms and mighty rivers but also the trusses that support the roofs of our houses. Spanning space continues to be an…
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The elementary student is especially sensitive to historical context. The sense of time and duration crystallizes out of a…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 15 Training the Montessori Teachers

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TRAINING THE MONTESSORI TEACHERS by Claude A. Claremont, PhD STUDIO HOUSE IN WAR-TIME "It's an ill wind that…
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residence for the principals (Mr. and Mrs. Claremont), garden ameni- ties including a large field or paddock, very suitable…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 03 A Day with Dr. Maria Montessori and Her Youthful Charges Is an Eye-Opener for the Average Parent

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To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 08 Commitment to Peace

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misery as it does in prosperity, in oppression as in freedom, in war as in peace, and that he did not really know what life is…

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

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At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 08 Maintaining the Montessori Metaphor: What Every Child Wants and Needs

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If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of…

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

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When something is amiss in our classroom, in our school, among the parents, or within ourselves, why not take Montessori'…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 14 Parenting for Independence

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independence in the child's life. Dr. Sears states, "Independence is not, in itself, one of our most important…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global…
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full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her…
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ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,…
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Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&…

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

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 13 Discovering the Hidden Person

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Figure 4: Persons in Community We must make a plan of development with the guide that the child gives us through the powers…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 04 Motivation: The Foundation of Successful Learning

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he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation…

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

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Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 04 The Impact of India

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where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 07 Montessori and the Deeper Freedom

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London, England MONTESSORI AND THE DEEPER FREEDOM by Mario M. Montessori and Claude A. Claremont I am inclined to think that…
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These sudden outbursts, which Dr. Montessori aptly terms "explo- sions," are prepared not just by growing,…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 08 Revisiting the Process of Normalization

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The true nature is like gold-waiting underground to be discovered and brought to light. After many episodes of normalization…

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

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!)~------------ THE SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD: KEEPING THE BALANCE by David Kahn Montessori learned from observed…
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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 11 The Spiritual Challenge of Erdkinder – Part 1: The Passage from Imaginative Vision to Concrete Experience

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The human is a great collaborator. And nature welcomes a gentle intervention. The trees' wounds will heal, and the maple…

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 05 The Casa Dei Bambini: A Personal Pilgrimage

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Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo…
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REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 02 Positive Psychology: The Emerging Paradigm

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POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE EMERGING PARADIGM by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Positive Psychology takes the focus off…

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…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 13 Innovation within Limits: How Is It Possible? – A Summary of the Proceedings

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Presenters at the Innovation within Limits Seminar E. Thomas Casey, registered architect, came to the Taliesin Fellowship in…

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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this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude…

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

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Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 11 Reflections from the Farm

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Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 18 Some Characteristics of a Montessori Erdkinder Compromise

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have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with…

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

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Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 21 Montessori High School

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The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 22 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary…

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

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from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on…

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 27/1 01 Child Development Under Three: The Foundations of the Personality, the Family, and the Montessori Method

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forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 06 Parenting for Independence

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The fundamental disagreement between attachment parenting and Montessori philosophy lies in the definition and importance of…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 08 The Good Work

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THE Gooo WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi INTRODUCTION Dr. Csikszentmihaly incisively defines soul "as a person…

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 28/2 07 The Evolving Nature of Work

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THE EVOLVING NATIJRE OF WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Beginning with a definition of work built around a systems view of…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 08 The Good Work

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THE Goon WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Researching the working lives of geneticists and journalists, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi…

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

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REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Flow and Education." The NAMT A Journal 22.2 (1997, Spring): 3-35.…

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

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for The NAMT A Journal outlining three connections between Montessori education and optimal experience theory: (1) an…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 04 Finding the Spiritual Thread in Montessori Work

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ables him to grow, teaches him to speak, and thus perfects him" (The Secret of Childhood 36). It was Betty…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 02 Montessori: A Modern Approach to Intelligence

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Action. Ed. K.H. Pribram. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1969. Gesell, Arnold, Frances L. Ilg, Janet L. Rodell, et al.…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 07 Eight Montessori Insights

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LS. Clasen,A.W. Toga,J.L.Rapoport,&P.M. Thompson. "Dynamic Mapping of Human Cortical Development during…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 04 Parents as Moral Educators

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And Dr. Claremont, quoting Maria Montessori in his Translator's Note to The Absorbent Mind, says, "We know how…
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• Allow your child to feel strong feelings; teach him or her acceptable ways of expressing them. • Expect error and cultivate…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 08 From the Garden to the Farmhouse: Farm Life and Education for Children Under Six

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off the roof will be collected in large cisterns for watering the gardens and washing. We also chose to use straw bale…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 10 Montessori Community Values: Sowing the Seeds of Morality

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Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Trans. Claude A. Claremont. Thiruvanmiyur, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1959…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 05 The Original Principles of The Silent Journey

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extent and use it in our dealings with children. For the children are the inheritors and passers-on of culture. They are…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 06 The Child and Society

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Montessori, Maria. Ed11catioJ1 and Pence. 1949. Trans. Helen R. Lane. Oxford: Clio, 1992. Montessori, Maria. Educazio11e e…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 05 The Child and Society

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Who then are this young chi.Id's teachers? Above all else he has an inner teacher, nature herself, who has determined…

NAMTA Journal 33/2 07 Montessorians Helping Children Who Learn Differently

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accepted their differences in their weak areas. Their concept of them- selves as a learner and a person remained intact.…

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