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

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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 06 Transition: Urban Montessori Secondary to Erdkinder

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TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary…

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 13/1 09 A Time to Read

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A TIME TO READ By Peggy Kahn All children have to start at the beginning, exploring first what they can reach out and touch…

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…
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Kahn: Another part of Cosmic Education are the charts and the time- lines. Doesn't your original work in Kodaikanal run…

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

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is,not just an outdated image, made obsolete by physical research. It is rather a very helpful and ever valid image of the…
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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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COSMIC EDUCATION: SOWING LIFE, NOT THEORIES by David Kahn This is an attempt to clarify the role of Cosmic Education in…
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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 10 Exploring with the Nine to Twelve Child

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Professor Allan Bloom, who wrote The Closing of the American Mind, judges today's University students as, "young…

NAMTA Journal 13/3 02 Early Research Studies

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the use of video-taped observations. She also depended on the random- ness of the assignment of the children to compensate for…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 05 Montessori: The Humanities Connection—Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal

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Montessori: The Humanities Connection Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal by David Kahn Montessori education may be a…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 10 The Thread of Life—Children Who Have Cancer (with a preface by Dr R. Callee)

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The sick body draws itself, the "body without organs" of the philoso- phers illustrates itself, evicted,…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 09 Montessori Education for All

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We are now in the third year of our follow-up study and two new campuses have been added to the program resulting in an…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 01 Albert Joosten and Maria Montessori: Recognizing the Human Spirit

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for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture…

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

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for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 07 Production and Management

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coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 08 Selected Appendices (introduction)

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coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting…

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

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EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 03 Montessori Adolescent Education: Toward an Emerging Framework

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generalizations and integrative structures. Most programs are worked empirically with different segments evolving into an…

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 19/1 03 Maria Montessori's Contribution to the Cultivation of the Mathematical Mind

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sensitive period pertinent to each age group, activity, and spontaneous passing into abstraction were possible for the…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 09 Reshaping Early Childhood Intervention To Be a More Effective Weapon Against Poverty

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REsHAPING EARLY CHIIDHOOD INrnRVENTION To BE A MoRE EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST POVER1Y by Edward Zigler, PhD Drawing on his…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 12 Breakthrough in Evolution: Toward a Partnership Future

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F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 01 The Montessori Learning Community: Evolving Schools, Evolving Adults, Evolving Children

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phasic plan converging on maturity: the maturity of children, the matu- rity of teachers and parents, the maturity of…

NAMTA Journal 21/1 01 Three Slide Shows for Parents

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Mary: I allow my little boy to dress in the kitchen. Usually he wants to stay near me at the start of the day. Sally: I…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 10 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent…

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

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This is the first year of NAMT A's Administrators' Group, an attempt to forge stronger relationships between…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 11 Socratic Practice: Intellectual Engagement as the Goal of Classroom Conversation

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Although there is no genealogical link to the Montessori world, several Montessori educators, including David Kahn, executive…
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more appropriate path. Both programs provide specific behavioral suggestions for leaders that may provide helpful scaffolding…

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

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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts;and,finally,…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 07 Transforming Children into Storytellers

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personnel, we had seven storytellers. The list of storytellers during those two years was wide-ranging: • Rod Alexander,…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 08 Character and Moral Development

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CHARACTER AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT by Johnnie Denton Ms. Denton's summary of her workshop session on character development…

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

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Figure 1 suggests that the vision and understanding of Erdkinder must come through a variety of pathways, beginning with…
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Montessori tells us that the adolescent wants to experience roles in society outside of the family. In order to create…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 05 The Kodaikanal Experience: Kahn - Montessori Interview

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had its cosmic task. And some of these tasks were not pleasant for human beings. The children might consider the task horrible…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 02 Discovering the Real Spiritual Child (Part 1)

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DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of…

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

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Montessori was deeply interested in serving the child's religious needs and creating an environment that would foster the…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 11 The Spiritual Challenge of Erdkinder – Part 1: The Passage from Imaginative Vision to Concrete Experience

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history, the purpose and finality of civilization, the unity of self and world, the need for intimate contact with the earth…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 01 Finding The Artist Within: A Challenge for Montessorians

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t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 11 Art from the Universe Story: New Meaning for the Child

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Held by the Sun: The loving embrace. Implementing a curriculum founded upon new themes in cosmol- ogy has been rich. It also…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 06 Montessori to Romania: Project Update

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Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 09 The Child and the Natural Environment

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THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article…
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Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of…

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 25/3 01 Margaret E. Stephenson: Following the Child across the Planes of Development

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Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. Miss Stephenson now lives in England, where she is an AMI lecturer, examiner, and trainer…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 06 Cosmic Education

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We have to be careful that we recognize that Cosmic Education is not a scheme in which education is divided into subjects of…
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development is not to teach a syllabus-not even that so-called sylla- bus that is in your albums-but instead to be able to…
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upon earth, that new actor. And to help the child understand and realize the part that he has been called upon to play and…
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being is the change agent with regard to the environment, that man has the urge not only to adapt himself to the environment…
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knowledge has been acquired mechanically (just as you might drop potatoes into a sack) and not by a process of integrating…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 05 The Montessori Farm School: Erdkinder Beginnings 2000

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on and found their children strikingly independent, good natured, and well adjusted. Two regional papers, including the…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 08 The Work of the Child and Cosmic Education

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tion is the educational plan for six- to twelve-year-olds. The Greek idea of cosmos refers to the totality of the universe,…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 02 Language and Developing Brain

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overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.…

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

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HOMO LOQUENS: LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Placing language in the context of human…

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

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What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 32 Geometry and Erdkinder

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progression of mathematical concepts from Algebra I to Algebra II to Trigonometry, culminating in Calculus. Mr. Miller also…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 02 Aligning Montessori Schools with True Montessori Essentials

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ALIGNING CLASSROOM PRACTICE WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Peter Gebhardt-Seele presents his…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 07 Elementary Physical Education

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(although this may well be- come a thirty-minute period as fitness levels rise). The time scheduled for the fitness…

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

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PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT, AGES TWELVE TO FIFTEEN by David Kahn This…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 11 Buildings That Nurture

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BUILDINGS THAT NURTURE by Victor Sidy Using principles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Maria Montessori, Victor Sidy has created a…
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Inside the classrooms, we configured the lighting and heating/ cooling ducts to accommodate an open vaulted ceiling rather…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 12 Prenatal and Perinatal Foundations of Moral Development

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baby to fall in Jove with one another (Uvnas-Moberg). Thus breastfeeding assists the baby in becoming pleasure tolerant and…

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

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measuring levels of engagement. NAMTA plans to explore flow in relation to all stages of development as well as to review best…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 04 Response to Two Studies by Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Goal theory and optimal experience theory link well to Montessori pedagogy. Goal theory identifies two kinds of goals: task…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 03 An Interview with Camillo Grazzini: Celebrating Fifty years of Montessori Work

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tants to 1nfancy, Children's House, Cosmic Education, and Erdkinder. That is the technical part of the Montessori idea.…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 22 Camillo 26-01-04

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tants to 1nfancy, Children's House, Cosmic Education, and Erdkinder. That is the technical part of the Montessori idea.…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 08 Extensio Animae and Magna

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The standards-based model is characterized by standards and consequent curriculum developed by committees overseen by state…
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nation. The lessons are to entice and inflame the interest of the child. The Montessori program at our school was initially…
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presented with items of knowledge because we think they have to understand it and to learn it. (77) For over ten years in our…

NAMTA Journal 29/3 02 A Path for the Exploration of any Language Leading to Writing and Reading – as part of the Total…

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It must be stressed that this stage is of the utmost importance both for the young children and for those who emer school at…

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

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THE ADOLESCENT AND THE f AMILY: LOVE AND LIMITS by Linda Davis Linda Davis characterizes the adolescent's time in life…
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Montessori, Maria. "A New Education for the Secondary School: A Public Lecture Given at Utrecht, January 18, 1937 (…

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

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PROJECT 2012: HISTORY WHITHER BOUND FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES by David Kahn…
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needs and solutions at the Montessori elementary level. What are human needs? How are humans different in how they find…
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Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 09 The Adult Montessori School Community: Finding a Balance

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I would like to take a moment to acknowledge NAMTA, and its officers past and present. NAMT A has, it seems to me, offered to…

NAMTA Journal 30/3 01 The 2005 Montessori School Salary Survey

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THE 2005 NAMTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL SALARY SURVEY Interpretation and analysis by David Kahn, John McNamara, and Kristin Sasaki…
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Surprisingly, in some cases median administrator salaries are actually lower than the median salaries of teachers with…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 17 The Lenses of Cosmic Education

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COSMIC EDUCATION: SOME MEANS TO AWARENESS In Montessori education we base our approach to children on what their needs are.…
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comes together. Maria Montessori uses the metaphor of the Great River to initially illustrate how each function of a society…
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great Italian poet, Dante, has said: "La somma sapienza e il primo amore," or "The greatest wisdom…
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We need the help of numbers for painting the imaginative picture, and if statistics be not available we can speak in terms of…
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move based on what you discern. It is the question of "why?" whose answer is most difficult but yet fairly…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 27 The Montessori Potential at the Grove School

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dents in the equivalent of ninth through twelfth grade, but the school has since expanded to two adjacent campuses. The Farm…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 31 The Montessori High School for the Study of Nature and Society

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After twenty-seven years of conferences, colloquia, grassroots organizing, program implementation, and international…
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Local Demand for a Montessori High School Model Cleveland (northeast Ohio) is the second oldest Montessori hub in the United…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 09 Deepening Cosmic Education

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simple tool-the pencil-a sense of the whole and the interconnec- tions between things and people. The elder hoped to awaken…
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because one does not put him in contact with nature. (From Childhood to Adolescence 35) I share these very personal…

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

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COSMIC EDUCATION by Annette Haines Annette Haines makes a clear and well-doc11me11ted presentatio11 of Cosmic Education,…

NAMTA Journal 32/3 01 The NAMTA Centenary Exhibit

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A Montessori Journey: 1907-2007 The NAMTA Centenary Exhibit THE NAMTAJouRNAL VoL 32, No. 3 SUMMER 2007 In affiliation…
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Preface by David Kahn Throughout 2007, the year that marks a century since the first Casa dei Bambini, NAMTA has toured…
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Special Acknowledgements There would be no exhibit without the generous contribution and leadership of Thomas Mueller,…
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Notes and Sources on the Historical Panels by Gerard Leonard Introduction The following is not a complete bibliography of…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 02 The Child in Nature: Montessori's Answer to the Ecological Crisis

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THE CHILD IN NATURE: MONTESSORI' s ANSWER TO THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS by Phyllis Pottish-Lewis lll this article, fo1111ded…
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Montessori prescribed in 1907. Unfortunately, very few have grasped the wisdom in the message. [n Education and Pence, she…

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