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

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misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 02 The Farm Experience: Its Importance in a Child's Life

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THE FARM EXPERIENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE IN A CHILD'S LIFE by Richard Barker Richard Barker's perceptive correlations…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 08 Montessori and Daycare: Making a Dinstiction

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prepared environment throughout all the hours that they spend in the Children's House. Surely we cannot ignore Dr.…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 11 The Black Coat: Using Therapeutic Stories in the Classroom

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86 it probably kept happening for a long time. And whatever it was, we know that it made the boy feel very cold. One day the…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 05 School Profiles: Milwaukee: Ten Constructive and Influential Years, 1976-1986

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Just as the understanding of the growth and development of the child in our complex society continues to build in the…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 06 Nature, Mother and Teacher: Her Norms

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syndrome may take months, even years, to develop), and, until symp- toms are present, one can never be certain whethel'…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 07 When the Kids Fight, How to Intervene Helpfully

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weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 10 A Selection of Children's Books for Montessorians

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Baylol", Byrd: I don't remembel' which book l found fil'st, but since then, it's become an…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 05 Evolution and the Pre-College Curriculum, Part I—The Human Place in Nature

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behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 04 The Role of the Practical Life Exercises in the Development of Equilibrium

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THE ROLE OF THE PRACTICAL LIFE EXERCISES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EQIDLIBRIUM by M. Shannon Branner Ms. Branner's…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 10 Becoming Attached

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satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 12 Constructing the Equilateral Triangle: Parents, Teachers and Children

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We are not always successful in achieving our objectives of parent involvement and in using the strategies 9f participation…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 03 The Meaning of Educational Reform

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not exist externally in nature, but were essentially insrrwnents of the mind. We also knew that it was crucial to make…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 13 What is Essential to Educational Reform?

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"textbooked" it, but only rarely did we cast it, in terms of intriguing and interesting questions. So, if…
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kind of question, one subject matter, others are engaged by another set. You know that when you want to get a group of kids…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 15 Change and Restructuring

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talk about these things in a much more differentiated way. It's not just their changing or their not changing; they are…

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

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The Struggle to Restructure This, chen, brings me to my ninth point. It seems to me chat at the fundamental levd, school…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 03 An Interview with Thomas Berry

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GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the…
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TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they…
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GL. So is there a place there then for, say, the humanities? TB. Well, definitely. GL. You've talked about the face that…
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GL. Now, what about traditional spiritual values? We don't have religion in our schools any more, and it seems chat we…

NAMTA Journal 17/3 27 Stones for the River Bed (Lower Elementary)

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he had also been identified as learning disabled. He resented being taken out of the classroom for tutoring sessions several…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 06 Establishing a Personal Teacher Identity

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sensitive periods. These givens are powered by a kind of life force energy that she called horme. With the powers infants and…

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

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At the same time, there's an emphasis on the children understanding their relationship to society. There is a respect for…
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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 18/2 02 The Fertile Field of Imagination

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References Egan, Kieran (1992). Imagination in Teaching and Learning. Chicago: U of Chicago. Montessori, Maria (1965; first…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 07 Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and History: Uses and Classification

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The other type is contagious magic, which says that things once in contact are always in contact. Now, that is at the root of…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 04 The Pedagogy of Time

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THE PEDAGOGY OF TIME by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Larry Scbaefer's keynote lecture at the 1993 Summer Institute, History as…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 09 Reinventing Civility

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REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return…

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

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REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 03 How Are You Smart? Multiple Intelligences and Classroom Practices

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How ARE You SMART?: MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES by Bruce Torff The question "How are you smart…
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The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 04 The Verbal/Linguistic and Visual/Spatial Intelligences

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THE VERBAL/LINGUISTIC AND VISUAL/ SPATIAL INTELLIGENCES by Rita Schaefer Zener Dr. Zener aligns Gardner's verbal/…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 05 The Personal Intelligences: Linking Gardner to Montessori

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THE PERSONAL INTELLIGENCES: LINKING GARDNER TO MONTESSORI by Silvia C. Dubovoy In discussing the personal intelligences, Dr…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 06 Movement, Music, and Learning: The Musical and Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligences

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MovEMENT, Music, AND LEARNING: THE MUSICAL AND BoDILY/KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCES by Audrey Sillick Audrey Sillick' sin…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 07 The Mathematical Intelligence Seen Through The Lens of the Montessori Theory of the Human Tendencies

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THE MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF THE MONTESSORI THEORY OF THE HUMAN TENDENCIES Kay M. Baker Dr. Baker…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 08 Maintaining the Montessori Metaphor: What Every Child Wants and Needs

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like me came to say that we're human beings, we're not just calcula- tors to fit into IBM jobs, we're human…
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infants. In fact, they do it prenatally, that's what we now know. They're not tabulae rasae; they never were tabulae…
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In coming to this bigger model, this bigger metaphor, I'm trying to fish around for people who seem to have their hands…
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another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you…
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story? The brain knows that the spiritual feelings that people have are important. You have to deal with that in some way. In…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 09 What It Means to Follow the Child

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These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,…
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each plane, is where children have opportunities to engage in and implement their expanding humanness, this hierarchical…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 05 Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 07 Transforming Children into Storytellers

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unique. Even the staunchest believer in The One Right Way had a hard time choosing. Enunciation exercises These offer an…

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…
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little defensive self, but you are part of something bigger, larger. If you sing in a choir or play with a group, a symphony…
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The interesting thing is that when those conditions are there, people tend to want to do what they did to get that feeling,…
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they are so remote that they have really nothing to do with this moment, this class, this particular moment of the day. Your…
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made a miserable passage in the slow part of that movement." He went back to play the second part of the concert and…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 03 Flow and Evolution

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things you could do. One is increasing complexity; the other, going back to your skill level and not taking on the new…

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 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 23/1 02 Beyond Bribes and Threats: How Not to Get Control of the Classroom

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and working with are basically the topic for this morning. I'm going to go over them quickly now and then come back to…
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quently rewarded or praised are somewhat less generous than their peers. The effect is most pronounced when they are rewarded…
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WHY REWARDS FAIL How come? Very quickly, let me suggest a couple of possible reasons (see Figure 2). If you want more on any…
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"Do this and you'll get that." Ultimately, that feels punitive. Analo- gously, I don't have…
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There is one way to take a bad thing and make it much worse. You're going to have to bring me back sometime for me to…
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than limiting the number available, but not as good as moving away from the reward and punishment approach altogether. There…
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similarly ineffective because it gets nowhere near where the trouble is. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Many of us…
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And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives…
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wants to be; it is an active way of taking her away from thinking about that and getting her focused on my face. Some little…
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approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi…
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BREAKING OUT OF DICHOTOMIES By the way, when you talk to parents, one of the things you have to do is have them break out of…
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But in this second-grade class, the kids were into this. One kid came up, when it was her turn to speak, and talked about…
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had they not had a democratic class meeting about something appar- ently irrelevant like how do we want to decorate our room.…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 06 To Touch The Spirit of The Child: A Multicultural Perspective

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requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in…
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visitor you'd be swept off your feet when you see what's happening with children. It interests me as to what they…
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'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is…
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. . . in all of these approaches is a deep re-spect for the living reality of the children that we work with-that we use…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 11 Self and Evolution

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However, at this point we are in an interesting situation-as many of the speakers pointed out in the past three days-we are in…
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Now is there any kind of guidance among the various scenarios of the future that we may or may not endorse through our…
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spend the next hour talking about complexity in the development of the human being and complexity at the psychological level.…
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are abandoning their forms of music because learning how to play a pipe or a mandolin is much harder than turning on a…
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For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the…
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the stars, and she couldn't sleep all night, she was so mesmerized by the immensity that opened up in front of her that…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 12 The Origins of Agrarianism and the Development of the Self

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Let me now tum to the last part of my morning lecture: the cultural ramifications of this economic Renaissance. Farmers were…
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quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 13 Emerging Psychological Characteristics of Farm Life

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var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I…
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I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It's always going to be true.…
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technology offered? But our family got together and said, "It's just like that orchard out there. There's…

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 14 Multiple Intelligences: Past, Present, Future

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What does the Meno tell us? The Meno tells us about Socrates' visit to his friend Menon. On this visit, he has a…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 15 Story Upon Story

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to help match a child's interest to the right resource. Get the children reading non-fiction as well as fiction, because…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 10 Cosmos, History, and the Human Spirit

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grateful have apparently been also self-serving, a strange and intrigu- ing paradox! To begin to see that "an…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 13 Are We Succeeding in Nurturing The Spirit?

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ARE WE SUCCEEDING IN NURTURING THE SPIRIT? by Aline D. Wolf Aline Wolfs challenge to Montessorians to look seriously at our…
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"Do you play with them?" "No, I just keep them." "Do you like them?"…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 04 Discovering the Artist Within

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and was honorably discharged, much to the Marine Corps' chagrin. Producing Buddhist poets is not something one sees…
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you wrote a lover, and I often think you, too, are a long poem whose gift is the gift of change, of sublime transformation…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 05 Poetry and the Early Adolescent

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Isn't the life that he should lead. It's a nagging feeling inside him, Urging him away from this. Telling him his…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 11 Art from the Universe Story: New Meaning for the Child

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THE FIRST LESSON To depict the origins of the universe to the child, I begin in the time- honored tradition of storytellers…

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

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Montessori, Mario. The Human Tendencies and Montessori Education. Amsterdam: Association Montessori lnternationale, 1966.…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 12 Encouraging the Creative Voice of the Child

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and norms and procedures and such, and teaching can only be evaluated as creative (or less creative) in the cultural context…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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and norms and procedures and such, and teaching can only be evaluated as creative (or less creative) in the cultural context…
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Montessori, Mario. The Human Tendencies and Montessori Education. Amsterdam: Association Montessori lnternationale, 1966.…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 04 Developing a Positive Vision for the Whole School

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DEVELOPING A POSITIVE VISION FOR THE WHOLE SCHOOL by Sharon L. Dubble Dr. Dubble features one of the pivotal methodologies…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 01 Margaret E. Stephenson: Following the Child across the Planes of Development

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Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. Miss Stephenson now lives in England, where she is an AMI lecturer, examiner, and trainer…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 01 Celebrating Montessori's Great Work: Our Gift for the Future

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unearthed what Montessori saw as optimal developmental outcomes along social, moral, cognitive, and emotional dimensions. 1…
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Montessori, Maria. To Educate tile Humnn Potential. 1948. Adyar, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1986. Montessori, Maria.…

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