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Sequence 14Montessori explains that, "The teacher must have the greatest respect for the personality of the adolescent,… |
Sequence 15Erikson, E. Identity. Youth and Crisis. (New York: Norton Press, 1968). Erikson, E. The Problem of Ego Identity, Journal of… |
Sequence 5instructional activities that will help children develop the learning-to- learn skills and behaviors associated with school… |
Sequence 1A SELECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR MONTESSORIANS By Charlene S. Trochta Twenty-Five Favorites: Some New, Some Old… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 18was from 8:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. There were 25 children in a class with a teacher, an aide, and two parent-aides who alternated… |
Sequence 7Time duration of interactions was significantly different between the two schools. Montessori children interacted longer times… |
Sequence 2The same children were retested eight months later and their mean gain scores indicated a decline in impulsivity and an… |
Sequence 3forward to a big future at Syracuse University. ot to mention along the way I've found a great boyfriend and earned… |
Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 7are to be expected and even desired for they contain information essential for further learning. For students to discover and… |
Sequence 8who must get well - grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis it is… |
Sequence 7rational behaviorist thought that the small child could hide within him "spiritual germs" or "… |
Sequence 13Lupus is an exhausting disease, but Flannery O'Connor was none- theless to make herself into one of the great writers of… |
Sequence 10Elements of the Definition of Class Discussion I. An interchange between students, not primarily between stu- dents and… |
Sequence 7verbal; memory of mere opinions adopted on the naked authority assumed by indoctrinating teachers. The conception of the… |
Sequence 2Method of Instrumentation The sample consisted of 96 Montessori students and 48 school stu- dents, their parents and teachers… |
Sequence 2this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th… |
Sequence 10history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
Sequence 119. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Mcu;kin.ery of Nature: The Living World Around Us - And How It Works (New York: Simon and Schuster,… |
Sequence 10Useful Sources of Professional and Children's Books American Library Association 60 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois… |
Sequence 10complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 912. Wilson, Edward 0. Biaphilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). 13. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why… |
Sequence 6...... The Montessori Birth Center served as a referral service, matching Assistants to Infancy with families desiring their… |
Sequence 2outside the school, directives from supervisors, and advice from others in similar roles. They accepted the status qua and… |
Sequence 11Grumet, M.R (1989). "Dinner at Abigail's: Nurturing collaboration." NEA Today, 7(6), 20-25. Livingston… |
Sequence 131. Much greater range of students' instructional materials (books, tapes, films, programmed in- struction, simulations… |
Sequence 8The biodynamic fann seeks to fanction as a self-sustaining, total organism comprising humans, plants, animals, water, and… |
Sequence 1610. Jerome S. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1966). I l. Alexis Carrel,… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 12casks in terms of the adaptive actitudes and skills chat he believes every person should master, including industry, identity… |
Sequence 16must hold students to real academic standards to be ready for college and life. College faculty chink high school teachers… |
Sequence 35its implications for cross-cultural studies. In S. Modgil & C. Modgil (Eds.), .lean Piaget: Consensus and controversy… |
Sequence 37Levi-Strauss, C. (1966). The savage mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Levi-Strauss, C. ( 1969). The raw and the… |
Sequence 9Each observation period required approximately two hours; at the comple- tion of each session the observer tallied the checks… |
Sequence 18The study supports the findings of Bruner, DeCharms, and others that self- motivation is part of a complex process In… |
Sequence 19The best response to the objections is to insist on telling the truth. Administrators must have the courage to face the public… |
Sequence 11Heidegger, M. (1966). DiScourseon Thinking. New York: Harper and Row. Hirsch, E.D. (1987). Cultural Literacy. New York:… |
Sequence 1F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and… |
Sequence 17Miller, J. B. 0 976). Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon. Montagu, A. (1986, August 7). Qtd. in Woodstock Times… |
Sequence 1MOTHER-ClllID BoNDING by Joseph Chilton Pearce The Big News with the evofttlion q( mammals is the progressiue attention and… |
Sequence 21Blumenfeld, P. C., Pimrich, P. R., & Hamilton, V. L. (1986). Children's concepts of ability, effott, and conduct… |
Sequence 22prosocial motivation: A socialization study. Developmental Psychology, 25, 509-15. Glasser, \VI. (1969).… |
Sequence 9exception was in one of the Montessori classrooms, where a student, described by her teacher to have a mother addicted to… |
Sequence 19CONCLUSION Thus far we have looked at two intelligences and their relation- ship to the Montessori materials. We have looked… |
Sequence 11Follow the child. Trust her judgments. Inspire trust by trusting. Why does it seem so difficult? Follow the child. Find… |
Sequence 9with her husband. She was also a vet. The students who worked with her went early in the morning to help her with the hard,… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 9was one of the most wonderful experiences of my Ufe. I really felt as though I was living with nature, without worrying about… |
Sequence 8attention most naturally? How can I capitalize on the natural interests of the student to draw her or him ever more deeply… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 6school operation as a whole, maintained by a young family. Thus the Erdkinder is teeming with so many opportunities for work… |
Sequence 16story told by an Inuit woman to ethnologist Rasmussen early in this century: In the very earliest time when both people and… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 35Egan, K. (1987). Literacy and the oral foundations of educa- tion. Harvard Educational Review, 57, 445-472. Egan, K. (1989).… |
Sequence 5solutions. Quality of instruction declines accordingly, and with it goes the quality of learning opportunities for students.… |
Sequence 11for the needs of reading teachers, mathematics teachers are trying to reform mathematics instruction independently of science… |
Sequence 29inclusive community, not one that divides them in order to conquer, but one that unifies them in order to set them free. I… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Foster, R. (1978). Celebration of discipline. New York: Harper & Row. Krishnamurti, J. (1953).… |
Sequence 4adult and the children, as these expressions of the spirit pour out of their daily experiences of togetherness-their oneness… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper & Row.… |
Sequence 18At least some of the teenagers in this study were demonstrating that they understood the requirements of growth. They had… |
Sequence 58Kohn, A. (1992) No contest: The case against competition (Rev. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Kohn, A. (1993). Punished by… |
Sequence 10goal-oriented individual. The thirst for knowledge, the spontaneous desire to discover and explore, is supported by and… |
Sequence 30is because children will enjoy and live more fully and fulfill their potentials. But also because they are more likely to… |
Sequence 2to leave the setting of their school behind for an experience on a farm. Set on a mountain top and a tract of forest land, the… |
Sequence 13REFERENCES Aries, P. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1962. Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal… |
Sequence 15Open up to nature And enter Yet another world THE FUTURE CHALLENGE: FORMING A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS There needs to be a &… |
Sequence 23REFERENCES Alston, P., ed. The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling Culture and Human Rights. Florence, Italy:… |
Sequence 18Montessori, Maria. Education for a New World. Thiruvanmiyur, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1946. Montessori, Maria. The… |
Sequence 28the ecological sense of our connection to the cosmos and other genera- tions of living beings. Our own personal destiny cannot… |
Sequence 14If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
Sequence 16Light Expanding, Radiant Rushing, Giving, Receiving It burns in all of us, The Giver REFERENCES Cajete, Greg. Look to the… |
Sequence 9initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
Sequence 18initially shown spontaneous interest, quickly lose that interest. They now realize that rewards reduce a child's desire… |
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 20gogy as Applied to Child Education in "The Children's Houses." 1909. Trans. Anne E. George. New York:… |
Sequence 2THE MEADOW ACROSS THE CREEK by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry is an eloquent spokesperson for the current crisis of humans… |
Sequence 9Because, even with all the glory and the grandeur of those furnish- ings, the world would have been an unfilled promise, this… |
Sequence 8Thanks to Charlene Trochta, Charlotte Kovach Shea, Carol Alver, Sanford Jones; thanks to David Kahn and everyone else who… |
Sequence 30way to envision the related processes of education and human devel- opment. The synthesis of these perspectives also provides… |
Sequence 15that adolescents have very few opportunities to gain experiences that might translate into future careers. By the end of high… |
Sequence 1THE GREAT WORK OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry explores the meaning of work from the standpoint of human… |
Sequence 12Another way of thinking about this relationship is to consider the individual self as the small self, related to the Earth or… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 9· "My first day of Middle School ... " • "Elementary school was the ... " · "My… |
Sequence 3National Erdkinder Consortium, a clearing house for Erdkinder devel- opment founded by Gang. Three previously unpublished… |
Sequence 7cultural history when "bigger" was "better." The tradeoff was that bigness meant… |
Sequence 2emerge from this collective sharing. There is no fantasy or real person somewhere out there to tell us whether we are on or… |
Sequence 4ization: Theory and Research. Ed. D. Goslin. New York: Rand McNally, 1969. Kohlberg, L., & C. Gilligan. "The… |
Sequence 4The crucial point of the whole question is the manner in which he considers the child, and this cannot depend on external… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 1During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 5The teacher takes responsibility for thirty-one percent in eighth the child's reaching each level of grade. 1 Depth is… |
Sequence 8The how it is to be done remains constant: verbalization, materials for development, point of arrival, the three-period lesson… |
Sequence 1212. We must provide concrete materials and manipulative tasks. Many students cannot master certain ideas without them. We… |
Sequence 8Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental… |
Sequence 10The ideal is that as young people are learning about the cultural diversity of their city, they will begin to define their own… |
Sequence 4Fuu-TJME STAFF David Kahn: program director, administrator, admissjons direc- tor, recruiter, publications director,… |