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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 6be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 6The Cozy Book. Hoberman, Mary Ann, illustrated by Tony Chen. Viking, New York, 1982. Close Your Eyes. Man:ollo, Jean, pictw·… |
Sequence 1TRIBUTE TO LINDA PRESTON By David Kahn In Memory of LINDA SOULE PRESTON April 4, 1938 - March 20, 1988 Memorial Service… |
Sequence 2easy for him to make the bed each morning. A small Pinocchio hat rack held his pajamas and his outdoor coat. A large piece of… |
Sequence 3touching remembrance of a visit to Hiroshima. She spoke of her own dedication to peace and education and managed to dig a hole… |
Sequence 2Dependent variables in the study were the motor skill of eye-hand co-ordination, visual perception skills of figure ground and… |
Sequence 4the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 11Sawyer so graphically lacked it. Ifwe are attentive to our own experience and that of others, ifwe have the kind of humility… |
Sequence 4personal behavior decisions are social decisions. There is an adult who helps us come to generous understanding, not by… |
Sequence 5function of the child with regard to the formation of the human personal- ity (p. 15). Oui· civilization has not yet devised… |
Sequence 10history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
Sequence 7Dewey, John. (1956). The ch:ild and the curriculum: the sclwol and soci.ety. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press. Hunt,… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 8new point of view, he can easily verify it by observing his own child. As Csikszentmihalyi points out, "The rapt c.… |
Sequence 9point was part of my standard spiel for parents-but &om my new perspective, I discovered again that it is the level of… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 19Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 48Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
Sequence 9for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 51for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 1Do NoT BEQUEATH A SHAMBLE THE CHILD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: INNOCENT HOSTAGE TO MINDLESS OPPRESSION OR MESSENGER TO… |
Sequence 2system of education. It is easy to see why verbal/linguistic skills are highly valued by parents and traditional educators.… |
Sequence 3Human beings have two complex apparatus for producing speech and for hearing the spoken word. Paper, pencil, and books are… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION AND FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dr. Csikszentmihalyi presents his theory of "flow" in the… |
Sequence 1FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
Sequence 3covery, an interpretation, and an approach-a dynamic understand- ing of the child-and not a recipe. Too often our students… |
Sequence 1INTEGRATING CSIKSZENTMIHALYI AND MONTESSORI by Chulanganee Fernando As a tribute to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's work, Ms.… |
Sequence 2The picture of the normalized child I like best is the one Dr. Montessori gives in The Secret of Childhood (1936/1966): The… |
Sequence 4For elementary children, Miss Stephenson says, "Put your head down and give the lessons; give the lessons!"… |
Sequence 137. The relationship between adolescent and teacher should be established by the teacher's respect for the adolescent:… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
Sequence 38And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives… |
Sequence 8a sense of freedom. There is a preference for work that is freely chosen (Csikszentmihalyi, 1997, p. 27). We see attention to… |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states that "growing up"… |
Sequence 12likelier to have more rewarding relationships with their mothers and fathers than the bored. This should not be surprising,… |
Sequence 6the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
Sequence 7At the beginning we reacted with some fatigue, because it was hard to see that themes that had been studied with great care,… |
Sequence 9love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 6joy of the children at their" awkward efforts" was the impetus for the pair to do something more organized… |
Sequence 9calling them out, the shepherd going ahead of them, the sheep follow- ing. This opens the way for them to work with the… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
Sequence 9hearts (131). This was in 1949. It is just as true-perhaps truer-in 1999, fifty years later! Our job as educators is to aid… |
Sequence 9The music created a feeling of life. Picture # 2: This picture is of a particle that was left and joining with a negative.… |
Sequence 24REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 75REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 2POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE EMERGING PARADIGM by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Positive Psychology takes the focus off… |
Sequence 22Q: Do you think that a child absorbed in a video game is in Flow? A: Yes, they can be in Flow, and usually they stay in Flow… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: POSITIVE OUTCOMES ALONG SOCIAL, MORAL, COGNITIVE, AND EMOTIONAL DIMENSIONS by Annette M.… |
Sequence 12If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 15John [Wyatt] mentioned that he finds that the best ques- tion for him to ask a new apprentice is how lazy he or she is.… |
Sequence 23reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 4All of those present could probably concur with the concluding remark made by Frances Nemtin, an original member of the… |
Sequence 8Thanks to Charlene Trochta, Charlotte Kovach Shea, Carol Alver, Sanford Jones; thanks to David Kahn and everyone else who… |
Sequence 23REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
Sequence 5language and have this language elicited from them, they will acquire emotional, physical, and intellectual independence.… |
Sequence 5The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 12It is amazing how wise teenagers can be. It came as a revelation to me how sensitive they could be to and how aware they could… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 8They build upon one another. Every ending is a new beginning. They must be understood as a whole-they must be correlated. They… |
Sequence 5Secondary Literature Entries marked with an askerisk (•) are reprinted in this issue of The NAMT A Journal. Bodi, John.&… |
Sequence 7*Kahn, David. "The Kibbutz, Boys' Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder." NAMT A Quarterly 4.… |
Sequence 5king, and he needed a queen. He needed a good queen, a queen with experience. Louis and I were separated on the first day of… |
Sequence 6respond to this need? How does one develop a sense of identity? As John McNamara has often said, the answer lies in… |
Sequence 13REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Barbara Schneider. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work… |
Sequence 12in the sequence of activities, stronger mentoring relationships and community ties, and multifaceted tasks and problems that… |
Sequence 17human physiology, one's skeletal and muscular makeup as structure, and the air and food that run through the system as… |
Sequence 20Identity. Fields are created partially from creative and productive individuals who derive flow from particular activities;… |
Sequence 6Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 2THE Gooo WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi INTRODUCTION Dr. Csikszentmihaly incisively defines soul "as a person… |
Sequence 6at the same time point to possibilities to which our biologi- cal inheritance is not yet sensitive. The sensate deals with… |
Sequence 16• feeling of usefulness and an understanding of one's "many sided powers of adaptation" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 11"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an… |
Sequence 2THE EVOLVING NATIJRE OF WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Beginning with a definition of work built around a systems view of… |
Sequence 22have that prejudice. But I think so-called normal children, who, as you know, are not normal, don't know that. They think… |
Sequence 1THE Goon WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Researching the working lives of geneticists and journalists, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi… |
Sequence 9Of course, all of these three need to be done with joy and engage- ment. You know, if the kids don't enjoy doing it, if… |
Sequence 13You know, children who grew upon farms used to learn that. They knew that if they didn't get up at four or five in the… |
Sequence 2its foundation a kind of "psychic hygiene" which helps men to grow up in a good mental health. (34) This… |
Sequence 3Csikszentmihalyi listed the conditions of the flow experience as follows (8): 1. Goals Are Clear: One knows at every moment… |
Sequence 4THE MARRIAGE OF FLOW AND NORMALIZATION The introduction of flow into the Montessori culture has had an invigorating effect.… |
Sequence 5measuring levels of engagement. NAMTA plans to explore flow in relation to all stages of development as well as to review best… |
Sequence 10REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Flow and Education." The NAMT A Journal 22.2 (1997, Spring): 3-35.… |
Sequence 4for The NAMT A Journal outlining three connections between Montessori education and optimal experience theory: (1) an… |
Sequence 2NAMTA's MIDDLE SCHOOL RESEARCH HITS THE MARK by Annette M. Haines I have finally had the privilege of reading Kevin… |
Sequence 3mihalyi, The Social Context) concludes that Montessori students have more positive perceptions of their school environment and… |
Sequence 4experience (flow) theory, but I know they had studied the thought of Maria Montessori. What I saw at each of the schools were… |
Sequence 4greater feeling of emotional/ psychological safety (i.e., not being put down by teachers or students). (21) I wonder if these… |
Sequence 4Thus itis easy to see that the development in mathematics is not linear; it follows the different psychologies of the growing… |
Sequence 184Thus itis easy to see that the development in mathematics is not linear; it follows the different psychologies of the growing… |
Sequence 18child who stands before us with his arms held open, beckoning humanity to follow. (118-119) Thank you. REFERENCES… |
Sequence 22of them, prevent them from growth, and rob them of the necessary tools to face adversity in their life. According to John and… |