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

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…
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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…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…
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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…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 05 Curriculum for Caring: Building a Sense of Mission with the Adolescent

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CURRICULUM FOR CARING: BUILDING A SENSE OF MISSION WITH THE ADOLESCENT by David Kahn and Marilyn DoelT Innovated as part of…
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adolescent may be in part realized. She writes that the Montessori secondary school must be "a school for the…

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 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 11 The Nature and Theory of Silence Activities in the Children's House

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Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of…
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requires participation. And finally, but importantly, silence should only be initiated at normal times when the room and those…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 12 Muriel Dwyer: On the Way to the Airport (Interview conducted by David Kahn)

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MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 14 AMI Montessori: Back to the Future

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EDITORIAL: AMI MONTESSORI: BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Kahn We are in the turmoil of becoming. And as one undergoes the…
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of beliefs, its ability to ignite the enthusiasm and commitment of teach- ers, stems from a spiritual and undiluted energy…
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tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,…

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 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…

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

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This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori…
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Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the…

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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stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 12 Tribute to Linda Soule Preston

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TRIBUTE TO LINDA PRESTON By David Kahn In Memory of LINDA SOULE PRESTON April 4, 1938 - March 20, 1988 Memorial Service…

NAMTA Journal 13/3 01 Introduction

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research, if properly guided, will establish once and for all the features which make Montessori unique. Defining Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 05 The Elementary Curriculum Dialectic: Essentialist vs. Structuralist

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Elementary Curriculum THE ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM DIALECTIC: ESSENTIALIST VS. STRUCTURALIST by David Kahn As one moves from…
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The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really…
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Footnotes l Sofia Cavalletti, "The Spiritual Development of the Child," Montessori Thlks to Par- ents,…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 09 The Acquisition of Spoken Language, The Nebula Hypothesis

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New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 01 The Mainstreaming of Montessori in America

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THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled…

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…
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Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is…
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all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened…

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

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MONTESSORI EDUCATION: INTERACTIVE IDEA FOR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING by David Kahn The dialectical, interior life of the…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 02 Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Edwin Delattre Delattre's wide range of human experience,…

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 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 01 To Be or Not To Be Montessori

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TO BE OR NOTTO BE MONTESSORI by David Kahn Profound differences in thmry are never gratuitnus or invented. They grow out of…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 08 Multicultural Dimensions of Montessori: Philosophy and Method

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"soup" to a "salad bowl" concept in which each ingredient maintains its separate flavor,…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 12 The Montessori Public School Consortium and the Future of Montessori Research

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THE MONTESSORI PUBLIC SCHOOL CONSORTIUM AND THE FUTURE OF MONTESSORI RESEARCH by Mary Maher Boehnlein, Ph.D. As a result of…
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David Kahn, Executive Directm; NAMTA , wlw has su:pported CYUr work UJ disseminate research information UJ Montessori.ans and…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 15 Heather Hill: Intergenerational Montessori All-Day Program

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HEATHER HILL INTERGENERATIONAL MONTESSORI ALL-DAY PROGRAM By David Kahn and Joanne Bailis In conjunctwn wiJh, consultant…

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

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ALBERT JOOSTEN AND MARIA MONTESSORI: RECOGNIZING THE HUMAN SPIRIT by David Kahn What is most powerful about Mr. Joosten…

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

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ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal…
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ALBERT JOOSTEN AND MARIA MONTESSORI: RECOGNIZING THE HUMAN SPIRIT by David Kahn What is most powerful about Mr. Joosten…
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Waltuch collection "Fundamental t,o Mr. Joosten was a steadfast d'iscipleship tied to a vision of the h'…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 11 Interview: Keeping in Touch with Montessori Roots (An Interview with Mildred Gunawardena)

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Kahn: When you took the course in England, with Mario Montessori, how did cosmic education become evident to you? Gunawardena…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 01 The Montessori Contribution to Educational Reform—A Prologue

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THE MONTFS.SORI CoNfRIBUTION TO EDUCATIONAL REFORM APROWGUE by David Kahn Washington, D.C., March 1, 1991. Operation Desert…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 18 Multi-Cultural Perspectives and School Reform

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(i) WHAT IS NAMTA? The North American Monressori Teachers' Associa- tion provides a medium of study, imerpretarion, and…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 01 The Experiment for the Experiment

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THE ExPERIMENT FOR THE ExPERIMENT by David Kahn From the dual perspective of Montessori educator and father of two chilaren…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 03 Language Unfolding In the Child

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Reading Analysis The child is shown how words have a particular place in a senrence: subjecr-predicare-objecr-clauses. She…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 04 The Child and the World of Nature

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In a 1.946 lecture in London Montessori said, "Education today needs one reform. If it is to prepare man for the…
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names of fruits and vegetables he sees as he is being pushed along the aisle of the grocery store, or kinds of cars, or colors…
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books are not enough. Mario Montessori Sr. reminded us of this when he noted how difficult it is to help children understand…
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names of different animals and plants-wonderful words like "red- winged blackbird" and "white-…
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the sun awakes them in the morning .... But instead of this, we anxiously ask ourselves how we can make a child sleep after…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 06 Developing The Mathematical Mind

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There is an interesting complement to these studies that Mario Montessori (1948) describes: The child absorbs a language…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 08 The Montessori Adolescent: Frameworks for Invention

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THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 07 Production and Management

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Key Personnel • David Kahn, Project Director David Kahn holds a B.A. in fine arts with a minor in classics from the…
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Design Review Team and Task Force Roster • Michael Bagiackas, Teacher-Head, Hershey Montessori School 10229 Prouty, Concord…
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Tim Duax, Administraror and Researcher, Milwaukee Public Schools t 945 N. 29th, Milwaukee, WI 53208 414-344-7%8 Margaret…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 08 Selected Appendices (introduction)

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Tim Duax, Administraror and Researcher, Milwaukee Public Schools t 945 N. 29th, Milwaukee, WI 53208 414-344-7%8 Margaret…
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Design Review Team and Task Force Roster • Michael Bagiackas, Teacher-Head, Hershey Montessori School 10229 Prouty, Concord…
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Key Personnel • David Kahn, Project Director David Kahn holds a B.A. in fine arts with a minor in classics from the…
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Montessori 2000 A Proposal Submitted to the New American Schools Development Corporation Submitted by David Kahn…

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 18/2 02 The Fertile Field of Imagination

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THE FERm..E FIEID OF IMAGINATION by David Kahn Starting/ram a precise definition of imagination in Montessori terms, David…
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favorite books or plays. An imagination makes it easier for me to see the ideas behind a story or a character. Most…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 01 The Adolescent and the Future

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THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl…

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

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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…
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Zigler, PhD, Sterling Psychology Professor at Yale University and one of the founders of Head Start. This conference will…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 05 The Keepers of Alexandria: A Missing Link for Montessori History? An Introduction.

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THE KEEPERS OF ALEXANDRIA: A MlsSJNG LINK FOR MONI'ESSORI IIIsTORY? introduction by David Kahn story by John Wyatt, PhD…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 05 Dr. Maria Montessori and the Child

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DR. MAruA. MONTESSORI AND THE CHILO by Dr. Mario Montessori I hope that you are not going to be disillusioned by what I say.…

NAMTA Journal 19/3 01 Survey of Montessori Adolescent Programs: Interpretive Commentary

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SURVEY OF MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS: INTERPRETIVE COMMENTARY by John Long Introduction Let me Lell a personal story…
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art ................... . music ............... . reading ........... . French ............... . Spanish ............. .…
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This is the picture that emerges from the survey data of Median Montessori Middle School. That Median is in only its sixth…
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lis), Montessori on the Lake (Lake Forest, CA), Meadow Montessori School (Monroe, lvll), Mercy Montessori Center (Cincinnati…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 01 To Nurture the Human Potential

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To NURTURE THE HUMAN PoTENTIAL by David Kahn, Editor When Maria Montessori looked to the child, she saw unlimited human…

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

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This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear…

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

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This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear…
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To NURTURE THE HUMAN PoTENTIAL by David Kahn, Editor When Maria Montessori looked to the child, she saw unlimited human…
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MONTESSORI: NURTURING THE HUMAN POTENTIAL PREFACE: To NuRTURE THE HUMAN POTENTIAL ....................... by David Kahn…

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

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THE MONTESSORI LEARNING COMMUNITY: EVOLVING SCHOOLS, EVOLVING ADULTS, EVOLVING CHILDREN by David Kahn, Editor A century of…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 02 Linking the Family and the School: The Importance of Parental Choice in Admissions

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LINKING THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: THE IMPORTANCE OF p ARENTAL CHOICE IN ADMISSIONS by Sharon L. Dubble, PhD The Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 10 Montessori Head Start Implementation Brief

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MONTESSORI HEAD START IMPLEMENTATION BRIEF by Alcillia Clifford and David Kahn MONTESSORI HEAD START: A COMPREHENSIVE…
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Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. Karnes, M. et al. (1978). Immediate,…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 01 World Montessori: Renewal through Cooperation

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WORLD MONTESSORI: RENEWAL THROUGH COOPERATION by David Kahn What is the task confronting education? It is above all the task…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 02 Maria Montessori and the "Glass House"

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In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,…
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and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.…

NAMTA Journal 21/1 01 Three Slide Shows for Parents

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p ARENT EDUCATION: SEEING THE CHILD'S PERSPECTIVE by David Kahn ENCOUNTER, THE CHILD'S PERSPECTIVE To be born is…
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