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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 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 13/2 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 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 14/2 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 16/3 06 Order in Consciousness

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new point of view, he can easily verify it by observing his own child. As Csikszentmihalyi points out, "The rapt c.…
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point was part of my standard spiel for parents-but &om my new perspective, I discovered again that it is the level of…

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 18/3 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…

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 14 In Memoriam: Nancy McCormick Rambusch 1927-1994

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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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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 20/3 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 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 22/1 08 Evolution and Flow

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EVOLUTION AND FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dr. Csikszentmihalyi presents his theory of "flow" in the…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 01 Finding Flow in Montessori

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FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 02 Flow and Education

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FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 05 A Montessori Journey of Self

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covery, an interpretation, and an approach-a dynamic understand- ing of the child-and not a recipe. Too often our students…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 09 Integrating Csikszentmihalyi and Montessori

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INTEGRATING CSIKSZENTMIHALYI AND MONTESSORI by Chulanganee Fernando As a tribute to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's work, Ms.…
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The picture of the normalized child I like best is the one Dr. Montessori gives in The Secret of Childhood (1936/1966): The…
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For elementary children, Miss Stephenson says, "Put your head down and give the lessons; give the lessons!"…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 10 Normalization and Normality Across the Planes of Development

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7. The relationship between adolescent and teacher should be established by the teacher's respect for the adolescent:…

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…
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a sense of freedom. There is a preference for work that is freely chosen (Csikszentmihalyi, 1997, p. 27). We see attention to…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 11 Self and Evolution

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SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference…

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 24/1 09 Evolution of Adolescent Behavior

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EVOLUTION OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states that "growing up&quot…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 10 The Importance of Engagement: A Preliminary Analysis

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likelier to have more rewarding relationships with their mothers and fathers than the bored. This should not be surprising,…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 10 The Power of Montessori's Positive Psychology in an Expanding Universe

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hearts (131). This was in 1949. It is just as true-perhaps truer-in 1999, fifty years later! Our job as educators is to aid…

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…
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Q: 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…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 03 Montessori in Early Childhood: Positive Outcomes along Social, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional Dimensions

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MONTESSORI IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: POSITIVE OUTCOMES ALONG SOCIAL, MORAL, COGNITIVE, AND EMOTIONAL DIMENSIONS by Annette M.…

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

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reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 14 Innovation within Limits: How Is It Possible? – A Participart's Perspective

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All of those present could probably concur with the concluding remark made by Frances Nemtin, an original member of the…

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 26/1 04 Optimal Developmental Outcomes for the Child Aged Six to Twelve: Social, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional…

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REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 07 In the Service of Creation

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language and have this language elicited from them, they will acquire emotional, physical, and intellectual independence.…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 11 Thirty Years in the Montessori Classroom

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The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven…
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burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and…

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 32 Geometry and Erdkinder

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respond to this need? How does one develop a sense of identity? As John McNamara has often said, the answer lies in…
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REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Barbara Schneider. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 34 Towards a Positive Education for Adolescents: An Example from the Humanities

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in the sequence of activities, stronger mentoring relationships and community ties, and multifaceted tasks and problems that…
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human physiology, one's skeletal and muscular makeup as structure, and the air and food that run through the system as…
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Identity. Fields are created partially from creative and productive individuals who derive flow from particular activities;…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 35 Hershey Montessori Farm School: Place Based High School Biology

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Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination…

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 27/3 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 27/3 09 Reconciling Evolution with Religion: Blending Creation Theology and Science

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at the same time point to possibilities to which our biologi- cal inheritance is not yet sensitive. The sensate deals with…

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…
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have that prejudice. But I think so-called normal children, who, as you know, are not normal, don't know that. They think…

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…
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Of 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…
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You 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…

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

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its foundation a kind of "psychic hygiene" which helps men to grow up in a good mental health. (34) This…
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Csikszentmihalyi listed the conditions of the flow experience as follows (8): 1. Goals Are Clear: One knows at every moment…
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THE MARRIAGE OF FLOW AND NORMALIZATION The introduction of flow into the Montessori culture has had an invigorating effect.…
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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…
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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 28/3 03 NAMTA's Middle School Research Hits the Mark

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NAMTA's MIDDLE SCHOOL RESEARCH HITS THE MARK by Annette M. Haines I have finally had the privilege of reading Kevin…
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mihalyi, The Social Context) concludes that Montessori students have more positive perceptions of their school environment and…
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experience (flow) theory, but I know they had studied the thought of Maria Montessori. What I saw at each of the schools were…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 05 Commentary on Two Manuscripts by Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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greater feeling of emotional/ psychological safety (i.e., not being put down by teachers or students). (21) I wonder if these…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 02 Timeless Dedication: Montessori from the Depth of the Soul

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child who stands before us with his arms held open, beckoning humanity to follow. (118-119) Thank you. REFERENCES…

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 29/2 13 Making an Ecological Contribution: Entrepreneurial Good Work

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We like to think of Patagonia as a one-hundred-year company; in all our planning, we think one hundred years out. There isn…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 11 Cultivating the Montessori Spirit through Family Life

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I take a great interest in the children's grandparents. Once asked, they love to talk or write about their grandparents…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 05 Ten Montessori Ideas That Convert Parents to the Child's Point of View

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• They will be lifelong learners because they enjoy what they do and learn in order to envision. • They will be socialized…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 02 Why It Is Important to Know the Child

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In this book we shall consider the different stages of human de- velopment and try to understand their significance with the…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 15 Child Development Tips for Prenatal to Three: Insights and Suggestions from Montessori Teachers

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8. Prepare yourself for the birthi11g of your child. You may want to consider taking a birthing class and think about your…

NAMTA Journal 34/2 02 Joyful Engagement: A Specific Lens for Observation in Montessori Primary and Elementary Environments

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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: Tl,e Psychology of Optimal £xperie11ce.New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Davis, Ronald D…

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