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NAMTA Journal 13/1 08 The Pure Wonder of Young Lives

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Ii is difficult to leach children about God by only using words. God is abslracL, but Christ is concrete. And what is around…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 08 Cosmic Education: Sowing Life, Not Theories

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land, to support future races. "21 The emotional depiction of coral as part of a cosmic legacy of doing right by…
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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 14/1 05 The Elementary Curriculum Dialectic: Essentialist vs. Structuralist

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The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really…

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

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The quiet in the class when the children were at work was complete and moving. No one had enforced it; and what is more, no…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 05 Errors and their Correction (1956)

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in order. This duty is often overlooked. If we see a child misusing an object, we intervene and stop it immediately. So far so…

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

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from tomes of scope and sequence which compel schools into a blind confor- mity. The reform of education in the Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 01 The Experiment for the Experiment

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Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "…
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Montessori years that come before-for what is laid out in the middle school years as we watch our children bec.ome adults is a…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during…
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at five years of age has become an intelligent being, must have gone through a constructive evolution { TIii! Fonnation of Ma,…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 09 Parents' Perceptions: The Transition of the Public School Montessori Students into Traditional Middle…

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Obviously, many more activities or variations on activities can ease the transition into traditional education. However,…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 07 Needs of the Elementary-Age Child: Montessori Principles, Strategies, and their Practical Implementations

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NEEDS OF THE ELEMENTARY-AGE CHILD MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES, STRATEGIES, AND THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS by Rajendra K.…

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…
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Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the…
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the earth. The origin of life on earth, of humans, farms, cities, and empires is personified in the great lessons as invention…
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invention, it also provides the holistic, integrated basis for clarifying complex tensions between human and natural systems.…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 07 Some Thoughts about the Spiritual Development of the Teacher

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are lo be transformed; instead of frustrating the learner's eager desire for work, as they so often do today, they are to…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 11 Ruffing Montessori School Peace Curriculum: An Informal Narrative

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I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 02 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara

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We must avoid placing limits on what a child will want to learn and digest by utilizing formalized curriculum scope and…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 06 The Child and the Adult

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The essentiality of the child is perhaps the element that imposes the severest discipline on the adult. How many…

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

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II little real knowledge of it. Instead, it is lo those three essays, and in particular Lo "The Erdkinder,&quot…
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ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing…
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old were eliminated from the.sample. With this correction, the median size is 25 students (n=19). In other words, eliminating…
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schools. Maybe not in our schools, but perhaps in open schools, etc. They should also be academically competent in the…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 07 Dare to Do Erdkinder: Report from Chicago

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DARE TO Do ERDKINDER: REPORT FROM CHICAGO by John Long "What type of adult does civilization need?" This…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 08 Human Solidarity: Reflections on Chicago

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third plane? Are we not immersed in some necessary creative tension as we strive to bind our present explorations with her…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 11 Montessori and Assessment: Some Issues of Assessment and Curriculum Reform

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1990, p. 37). The fact that the Montes- sori teachers interviewed seemed to spend more time than traditional teachers on…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 11 The Elements of Social Life and the Montessori Adolescent

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THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT by Linda Davis Linda Davis traces the Montessori view of…
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gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the…

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

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with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 16 Book Review—Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood, By Paula…

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Chapter Two, "An Overview of the Primary Years," is an expert portrait of the prepared environment for the…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 01 All-Day Montessori: Notes on the History of the Experiment

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their shelves, place a few toys and mats in the middle of the room, and establish a day care unit for babysitting during the…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 11 Philosophy Statement for the North Avondale Montessori School

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The prepared environment must allow for social interaction and be multi-aged. Research sug- gests that "the human…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 04 Flow and Creativity

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becomes clear. But the point is that you can't have that insight unless you have prepared for it for a long time. And…

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

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20 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 01 Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom, A Life's Journey of Educational Ideas

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when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 04 The Integration of Cultures: The Montessori Contribution

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If you take the time to study the publications of Maria Montessori thoroughly and carefully, you will find confirmed on every…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 12 The Erdkinder Story: In the Beginning

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now to find out how to do it, from people who set up farms. You must take time now to look in books. You are the makers of…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 15 Story Upon Story

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two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 06 The Totonaca People and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

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an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working…
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• "We want to be Good Samaritans." • "You have given us consciousness of a love that never ends, an…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 07 Doing What the Heart Already Knows

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And if we complain that the elements of our liturgy have lost their savor because we are no longer an agrarian culture, then…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 08 Science and Faith: Maria Montessori's Principles of Education

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is why they start a search for know ledge of that Truth. Such is also the case with Montessori's search into how children…
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room, calmly smiling. She sat down at the edge of my bed and asked me: "Mario, do you see the chandelier swinging…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 12 Ecology and Human Destiny

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Why take action to prolong our earth's ecosystems far into the future if nature itself is so relentless in pushing all…
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possible, no matter how defined the past may be. But how can we make sense of such a redemption? The answer, once again, lies…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 02 The Casa Dei Bambini: A Century Concept

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Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 04 The Casa Dei Bambini: Paths to Culture

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participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity…
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They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 10 Pedagogy of Place: Becoming Erdkinder, The Montessori Program Design School, Program Design Position…

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In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is…
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They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves…
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participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity…
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Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 10 "In a Beginning…": Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah

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Kabbalah is an example of a cosmology resembling our own that successfully penetrated and enriched the lives of a society. In…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 06 Cosmic Education

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COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 03 Literary Approaches for the Child Under Six

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of his or her own favored styles of communicating with others and of which styles of others' expressive communication…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 08 Cosmic Sense, Sensibility, and Written Expression: From Childhood to Adolescence

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by a resonating membrane "like the stretched surface of the drum." If nothing happens, the centers for…
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what they said; some were pessimistic. The adolescent needs some- thing more than logic to have an optimistic view of…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 01 An Overview of Adolescence

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emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane&quot…
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appear more like a traditional junior high in miniature in some cases. But beneath this veneer of traditional time blocks and…
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Place-a place for adolescents to experience as a whole: a place that is an island of green for beholding, a place to work and…
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ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 08 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara

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Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 09 Helping the Adolescent Personality

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We need to provide an environ- ment where children can experi- ence community, affirmation, love, and support first and…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 17 Erdkinder: The Experiment for the Experiment (Interview with Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson and A.M…

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ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 19 The Kibbutz, Boy’s Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder

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... adolescents prove to be good teachers for small children who feel a certain repulsion for very adult personalities who…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 30 Occupations and the Farm

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lives. This Duke was good at what he did. Very good. He was also my father. He had everything, except a wife. She died when I…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 01 Montessori Spiritual: God, Evolution and The Natural World

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MONTESSORI SPIRITUAL: Goo, EvoLUTION, AND THE NATURAL WORLD by David Kahn It is sometimes difficult to characterize the…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 02 Liturgy in the Cosmic Plan of God

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LITURGY IN THE CosMic PLAN OF Goo by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti's conviction that the greatest realities are…
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Creation was waiting for human crea- tures, for their capacity to enjoy and work in the world in order to trans- form it and…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 05 God Who Has No Hands

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11 And where is He?" "He is in Heaven and on this earth. He is everywhere." "What can He…
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When you throw a stone into a pond it sinks to the bottom. Similarly the heavier liquids sank towards the centre of the earth…
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Here they grew hot and light again, light enough to rise up once more, carrying with them part of the heat from below, which…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 06 God's Cosmic Plan and the Work of the Child

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universe? The "Plan of God" material, which is introduced in Elemen- tary II and used for three years,…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 07 Journeying with Children Toward God

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In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover…
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most striking aspect of this drawing for me are the faces of the shepherd and the sheep around his neck. They have matching…

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

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or the bad things that happen in the lives of children. We cannot take credit for all the good things and we should not feel…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 01 Aligning Montessori Schools with True Montessori Essentials

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ALIGNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by David Kahn As 250 Montessori schools in North America…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 04 Reading, Writing, and Mathematics: Explored and Discovered Rather Than Taught

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to function in this way, it must be ordered and complete: The shelves must manifest the sequence so the children understand…

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

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and their expanding intellect (97-109). The prepared environment of the Erdkinder includes a working farm, a "museum…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 05 Work

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Unfortunately, adolescence is a period of life when society puts its young people in a hold· ing pattern. The frustration…

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

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MONTESSORI AND OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE RESEARCH: TOWARD BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION REFORM by David Kahn ON NORMALIZATION…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 08 Extensio Animae and Magna

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EXTENSIO ANIMAE AD MAGNA by Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme explain the philosophy of two…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 02 Places for Belonging: From Womb to Home to Montessori School

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Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the…

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

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computer I cell phone ban. She and her father jokingly referred to the period of withdrawal that she experienced from her…

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

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called the Will of God, actively expressed in the whole of His creation. (To Educate the Human Potential 71) In one of the…
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* * * In the Erdkinder Appendices of From Childhood to Adolescence, Montessori presents the next logical step for history as…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 08 The Wisdom of Love: A Montessori Journey of the Sea of Life

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Montessori writes about the child, but this message applies to also to adults: His intelligence becomes whole and complete…
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The land school is a rescue for Montessori's "rhythm of life." The presentation by Camillo Grazzini and…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 10 The Child as Spiritual Teacher for the Adult

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work of the spiritual sphere in our world through the eyes of the missionary. This is the true story of a missionary in…
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the lesson, whenever there was a pause, she said "My turn now." She could hardly wait to get her hands on…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 01 The Key Lessons of the Third Adolescent Colloquium

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THE KEY LESSONS OF THE THIRD ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM by David Kahn THEORY INTO PRACTICE: THE MONTESSORI COLLOQUIUM AS A…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 05 Envisioning the Whole Third Plane: Montessori Erdkinder and Urban Adolescent Programs Help Each Other

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At the same time that McNamara was nurturing his classroom model, Phil Gang sought out the AMI point of view. In 1976,…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 10 Socialization through the Partnership with Prairie Crossing

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repaying the loan to buy the mushrooms, so our profit margin is small. An unexpected benefit was that a local journalist heard…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 17 The Lenses of Cosmic Education

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This is the phenomenon we call the "normalized class." It is so unique that I think we often take it for…

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

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Inertia, generated by oversimplification, lack of concern, or trivializing a problem, is foreign to our children. They are…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 16 From Care of Others and the Environment to Community Service and Social Responsibility: The Emergence of…

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by Miss Child that "We don't sit on tables, dear," the young woman got down, as if hearing this for the…

NAMTA Journal 33/3 02 The Toddler and the Teenager: A Comparison of the First and Third Planes of Development

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baby and young child is "egocentric": He is selfish. Everything centers around him. It must. As Margaret…

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