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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 6be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 6The Cozy Book. Hoberman, Mary Ann, illustrated by Tony Chen. Viking, New York, 1982. Close Your Eyes. Man:ollo, Jean, pictw·… |
Sequence 1TRIBUTE TO LINDA PRESTON By David Kahn In Memory of LINDA SOULE PRESTON April 4, 1938 - March 20, 1988 Memorial Service… |
Sequence 2easy for him to make the bed each morning. A small Pinocchio hat rack held his pajamas and his outdoor coat. A large piece of… |
Sequence 3touching remembrance of a visit to Hiroshima. She spoke of her own dedication to peace and education and managed to dig a hole… |
Sequence 2Dependent variables in the study were the motor skill of eye-hand co-ordination, visual perception skills of figure ground and… |
Sequence 4the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 11Sawyer so graphically lacked it. Ifwe are attentive to our own experience and that of others, ifwe have the kind of humility… |
Sequence 4personal behavior decisions are social decisions. There is an adult who helps us come to generous understanding, not by… |
Sequence 5function of the child with regard to the formation of the human personal- ity (p. 15). Oui· civilization has not yet devised… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 10history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
Sequence 7Dewey, John. (1956). The ch:ild and the curriculum: the sclwol and soci.ety. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press. Hunt,… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 3and not a panicipant in the process. Plans for schools and buildings, ways to organize classrooms and groups within… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 19Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 48Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
Sequence 9for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 51for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 1Do NoT BEQUEATH A SHAMBLE THE CHILD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: INNOCENT HOSTAGE TO MINDLESS OPPRESSION OR MESSENGER TO… |
Sequence 2system of education. It is easy to see why verbal/linguistic skills are highly valued by parents and traditional educators.… |
Sequence 3Human beings have two complex apparatus for producing speech and for hearing the spoken word. Paper, pencil, and books are… |
Sequence 8to the patience of the people we encountered. In fact, the students expressed some sadness when we returned to the city and to… |
Sequence 7schools. We've visited a few and they seemed good enough. Good enough, in fact, that we even put in applications… |
Sequence 13with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,… |
Sequence 28If a child, for instance, feels overwhelmed by the challenges present, if he's anxious, he or she is not going to… |
Sequence 31A: That's really difficult because you find, for instance, there have been very good studies that show that if you get a… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
Sequence 23concrete example in a school environment that exemplifies a doing to approach or a working with approach. If it's one… |
Sequence 38And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives… |
Sequence 15needs of each are different, it causes conflict and very often the needs of the adults will take precedence over the needs of… |
Sequence 19most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 6the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
Sequence 7At the beginning we reacted with some fatigue, because it was hard to see that themes that had been studied with great care,… |
Sequence 9love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 6joy of the children at their" awkward efforts" was the impetus for the pair to do something more organized… |
Sequence 9calling them out, the shepherd going ahead of them, the sheep follow- ing. This opens the way for them to work with the… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
Sequence 9The music created a feeling of life. Picture # 2: This picture is of a particle that was left and joining with a negative.… |
Sequence 24REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 75REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 12If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 15John [Wyatt] mentioned that he finds that the best ques- tion for him to ask a new apprentice is how lazy he or she is.… |
Sequence 18and language. So you might think there's got to be a connection between the two. But what precisely is the connection?… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 12It is amazing how wise teenagers can be. It came as a revelation to me how sensitive they could be to and how aware they could… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 8They build upon one another. Every ending is a new beginning. They must be understood as a whole-they must be correlated. They… |
Sequence 5Secondary Literature Entries marked with an askerisk (•) are reprinted in this issue of The NAMT A Journal. Bodi, John.&… |
Sequence 7*Kahn, David. "The Kibbutz, Boys' Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder." NAMT A Quarterly 4.… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 21and was put in jail and they confiscated his tractor-a big scandal in the southern San Joaquin Valley. About that same time in… |
Sequence 28three hundred and you've got two hundred. What did you do wrong?" Or when I had these plum trees, thegreattrag… |
Sequence 5king, and he needed a queen. He needed a good queen, a queen with experience. Louis and I were separated on the first day of… |
Sequence 16a toothpick in it. And of course my adult instinct was to say, "Don't squeeze the water out." But I… |
Sequence 5In 1954, Sofia Cavalletti began a quest to understand the nature of the child's relationship with God, and to discover… |
Sequence 16• feeling of usefulness and an understanding of one's "many sided powers of adaptation" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 20the third world, which replicates on a global scale what used to be the struggle within society in the nineteenth century. We… |
Sequence 4Thus itis easy to see that the development in mathematics is not linear; it follows the different psychologies of the growing… |
Sequence 184Thus itis easy to see that the development in mathematics is not linear; it follows the different psychologies of the growing… |
Sequence 22of them, prevent them from growth, and rob them of the necessary tools to face adversity in their life. According to John and… |
Sequence 6Finally, a word about the third and fourth points. Thoreau went to Walden, he said, in order to drive some of the problems… |
Sequence 8sense, regardless of how it turns out" (Havel 181). Optimism cannot be commanded, as Frankl observes, but hope can be… |
Sequence 11have heard of him. He's on expedition right now going up to the Northwest Territories. This is a nine-month expedition.… |
Sequence 17pion of the project and the company forever. So either way, the result is excellent. Once every eighteen months, we sponsor a… |
Sequence 20The last activity at this level is to introduce little handmade books. In this very shore time the children have acquired the… |
Sequence 7into these wild, outdoor spaces, where they will make their own discoveries. "When the child goes out,"… |
Sequence 6We have had a rule for the past two years: Any fiction reading done in or for school must be a classic. This fall a new… |
Sequence 14Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966… |
Sequence 33wisdom. And wisdom involves putting together everything I've said today. It's about the use of your successful… |
Sequence 7waiting below a good rapid. We take canoes, because in canoes you have to work together. You have to call out what you see and… |
Sequence 2SOCIALIZATION THROUGH THE p ARTNERSHIP WITH PRAIRIE CROSSING by Linda Davis Highlighting the primary function of adolescent… |
Sequence 4problems of one plane during a completely different plane. Thus normalization, which means a return to the path of normal… |
Sequence 11Montessori emphasizes the importance of these adolescents being protected and prepared, so that they can become strong, so… |
Sequence 3In the summer of 2005, several adolescent practitioners gathered in Hiram, Ohio, to begin work on developing a curriculum in… |
Sequence 16end everything, including the people, the cities, and the countries one loved. But still, why did bad things happen to good… |
Sequence 20"Cool! That's what a ball bearing is? How does it work? Can we take apart the ottoman? Oh, I get it, why didn… |
Sequence 25For math, and especially for younger children, I recommend the work of Constance Kam ii, a series of books titled Yo1111g… |
Sequence 2morning, and, believe it or not, I have a lot of working people who do stay for the breakfast after drop-off and then go to… |
Sequence 16don't always put directions by them; it depends on the material. Some of them just say "explore";… |
Sequence 26being a child in so many years. And to try to get in touch with myself as a child is ... I can't even express it.&… |
Sequence 13Liskin-Gasparro, J.E. "If You Can't Use a Language, You Don't Know a Language." Middlebury… |
Sequence 7Special Acknowledgements There would be no exhibit without the generous contribution and leadership of Thomas Mueller,… |
Sequence 178A Montessori Journey 1907 to 2007 Patrons Anonymous Donation through Si Helena Monressori School Association Montessori… |
Sequence 21the Ship of Fools.Self-satisfied lovers of nothing, of fa.lse representa- tions and false concepts that the body/ mind creates… |
Sequence 70REFERENCES Arendt, Hannah. Tire H11111a11 Condition. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. Aelian. Historical Miscella11y. Loeb… |
Sequence 7relations, even though we know and have long known from psychol- ogy that these are very formative. They so profoundly affect… |
Sequence 10the good leader, the good manager will exercise that power in a partnership structure. These are very important distinctions… |
Sequence 16solutely no evidence, they write, that male bonobos have any interest whatsoever in passing on their genes-none. Why? First of… |
Sequence 18always expected to give their bodies, their lives, because some guy on top wanted more real estate. In fact, in Euro- pean… |
Sequence 2FROM CARE OF OTHERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT TO COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE EMERGENCE OF THE SOCIAL AND… |
Sequence 4eyes, energy to burn, and he had come from a play group where there were few limits on behavior, including throwing things… |
Sequence 11growth of personality, demonstrates, almost as in a splen- did revelation, the true manner in which man renders himself… |