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Sequence 4Children are observed spontaneously praying to the Good Shepherd. A child suffering from leukemia told me, "He helps… |
Sequence 5Ii is difficult to leach children about God by only using words. God is abslracL, but Christ is concrete. And what is around… |
Sequence 6questions and the answel's in the scl'iµtul'e. We can re:;pond that "One time Jesus said 'I am… |
Sequence 8"Found Sheep," which is not scolded by the Good Shepherd but car- ried happily on his shoulders. With great… |
Sequence 2Dr. Montessori lectured from 9 A.M. until 12 noon and 3 P.M. to 6 P.M. every day. Saturdays_ were ow· practical days, our… |
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 28children's transition from orality to literacy as unqualified progress, we were to view it as a trade-off made for… |
Sequence 38ground. New York: Oxford University Press. Opie, I., & Opie, P. (1985). The singing game. New York: Oxford University… |
Sequence 1A six-year-old's drawing of the Good Shepherd and sheep (lstituto Assunzione, Rome). 60 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. /9, No… |
Sequence 6highlighting the contrast between the solemn, aloof teacher who sits as one enthroned on high before an audience that hears… |
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 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 2It is no doubt that Maria Montessori saw a divine presence in young children which made them" all-powerful,"… |
Sequence 4center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human… |
Sequence 3in an experience of religious education known as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd… |
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 8But the point which always strikes the child-no matter what the child's environment or culture-is that the Good… |
Sequence 1Two TRIBUTES To SoFIA CAVALLETTI The following tributes were presented to Sofia c.avalletti at the NAMT A conference entitled… |
Sequence 2ogy and Semitic culture and history. Over the years, I slowly became aware that, in addition to Italian and Hebrew, Sofia… |
Sequence 3II Sofia dear: Thank you. Why? It is difficult to be essential when you would like to thank a wonderful friend for so many… |
Sequence 3ing for a relationship with the Creator and the creation, and we will not be satisfied unless this fundamental discovery can… |
Sequence 4order to make it possible for me to do my journey with the support of an unconditional love." Montessori wrote,… |
Sequence 2THE HISTORY OF THE CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD by Tina Lillig Ms. Lillig gives a concise histonJ of the Catechesis of… |
Sequence 3If we delay catechesis until the customary age of six, the child has moved into a new ethical stage in life when God is more… |
Sequence 4child. One is her demonstration, through numerous examples, of the catechetical potential of children as young as three.… |
Sequence 6joy of the children at their" awkward efforts" was the impetus for the pair to do something more organized… |
Sequence 7-------------------------------- -- Many catechists have observed that the atrium becomes even more important to older… |
Sequence 8atrium, children sometimes make a first discovery that they have an inner life. THE Gooo SHEPHERD The Catechesis of the Good… |
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 10AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 2THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the… |
Sequence 3religious sense. They are a way to worship and to express adoration, love, and a total gift of themselves, in a cosmic… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
Sequence 5In March of that same year, they came back and we looked at history as a history of the gifts from God. I presented the… |
Sequence 9will help us to go deeper into this aspect of our work and to remain faithful to it." A big hope is ahead of us:… |
Sequence 1THE RELATION BETWEEN THE CHILD'S WORK AND COSMIC WORK by Gianna Gobbi Gianna Gobbi' s essay speaks to the &… |
Sequence 2ARE WE SUCCEEDING IN NURTURING THE SPIRIT? by Aline D. Wolf Aline Wolfs challenge to Montessorians to look seriously at our… |
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 1OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,… |
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 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 21ronment! It was grand! I remember that he came to graduation, and once again he wept. Let us proceed to study the work and… |
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 2LITURGY IN THE CosMic PLAN OF Goo by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti's conviction that the greatest realities are… |
Sequence 2Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES Cavalletti, Sofia. II potenziale religioso tra i 6 e i 12 anni. Trans. Rebekah Rojcewicz. Rome: Citta Nuova… |
Sequence 2JOURNEYING WITH CHILDREN TowARD Goo by Rebekah Rojcewicz Rebekah Rojcewicz' s short summanJ of the Ca techesis of the… |
Sequence 3Where do such deep responses come from in children? What triggers them? What do they tell us about the religious nature of… |
Sequence 4Two MYSTERIES The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd has been called" the meeting ground of two mysteries: the mystery… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 6most striking aspect of this drawing for me are the faces of the shepherd and the sheep around his neck. They have matching… |
Sequence 7THE ATRIUM And so we prepare a space, the atrium, where these great truths can be proclaimed and these mysteries explored. It… |
Sequence 8Jesus invites us to comprehend the depth and intimacy of his relation- ship with us, the providential love and care of the… |
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 2Let me explain, very briefly, how I entered the Montessori world and how this experience changed deeply my personal and profes… |
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 1OBITUARY: GIANNA GOBBI by Camillo Grazzini On January 29, in her eighty-third year, Gianna Gobbi suddenly, unexpectedly,… |
Sequence 2Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 3Gobbi presented a synthesis of a part of her personal experiences with the children in a little book called Alcuni principi… |
Sequence 6Gobbi presented a synthesis of a part of her personal experiences with the children in a little book called Alcuni principi… |