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

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A SELECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR MONTESSORIANS By Charlene S. Trochta Twenty-Five Favorites: Some New, Some Old…

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 13/3 08 Conclusions and Needs

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Meizitis, S. (1972). The Montessori method: Some recent research. Interchange, 2, 41-59. Montessori, Maria. (1967). TM Abs…

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

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psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for…

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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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 18/2 05 Whole Language in the Montessori Classroom: Continuing the Story

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would be supportive of the contemporary whole language approach. The use of oral grammar games also would assist children in…

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

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exciting, I hearli/y recommend the following books to aid you in your studies: Baughman, Emest(1966). A TypeandMotif-Jnde.…

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 19/3 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…
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234-235). In a Montessori elementary class, the children are allowed to form groups; most of their work is done in groups.…

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 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…
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basis or as part of the school's overall work-study requirement. The school operates on a trimester calendar. The…
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academic year: apple cidering, sugar bush processing including candy and baking, wreath making, etc. • Richard has found…

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 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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the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They…
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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 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 05 The Casa Dei Bambini: A Personal Pilgrimage

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cooked supper for all seven of us. The others washed up so the cook could retreat to her album work. By the time we arrived,…

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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cooked supper for all seven of us. The others washed up so the cook could retreat to her album work. By the time we arrived,…
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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 11 The Hand-Thought-Language Nexus

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brain and spinal cord of mammals a very, very long time ago, and had endowed the monkey's limbs with assured, acrobatic…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 05 Reminiscences and Thoughts about Montessori Day Care

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Richard and Karin Salzmann, founders of Washington Montessori Institute, circa 1970 • ., •• ·.'.ac~:,,. ~c.;;;;;,;. :4…

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 25/3 09 The Adolescent and the Future

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REFERENCES Gross, Michael. Montessori' s Concept of Personality. Diss. U of Nebraska, 1976. Livingstone, Richard.…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 09 The Great Work of the New Millennium

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But in an organic economy, the child learns how to interact with things so as to promote an ever-renewing world of beauty and…

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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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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king, and he needed a queen. He needed a good queen, a queen with experience. Louis and I were separated on the first day of…
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And in 1189, Henry died, leaving the throne to my beloved son Richard the Lionhearted. Rkhard knew he was my favorite, and…

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 28/1 12 Ecosystem in the Backyard—Preparing a Diverse Outdoor Environment for Primary (Ages Three to Six) Children

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THE FOREST The forest at Lincoln Montessori came into being largely through the effort and generosity of a family whose child…
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cycles in nature through observation and experience, a child will have a base upon which to build more theoretical…

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…
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REFERENCES American Federation of Teachers. "Making Standards Matter, 2001." American Educator 25.4 (2001,…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 09 Developing Character, Will, and Spirit

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Th is observation experiment, although traumatic for some, opens the door to self-observation and discovery. It allows us to…
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Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. M. Joseph Costelloe. New York: Ballantine, 1967. Montessori,…

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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* * * In the Erdkinder Appendices of From Childhood to Adolescence, Montessori presents the next logical step for history as…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 02 Montessori: A Modern Approach to Intelligence

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Action. Ed. K.H. Pribram. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1969. Gesell, Arnold, Frances L. Ilg, Janet L. Rodell, et al.…

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 09 The Adult Montessori School Community: Finding a Balance

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And Mario Montessori, Jr., her grandson, and once president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, told us at an…

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…

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…
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nature, this sense of mystery, must accompany the study of nature when, having learned of these wonders, this child goes out…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 09 Overcoming Cynicism and Cultivating Positive Adolescent Engagement

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Louv, Richard. LnstChildi11 the Woods. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006. Maslow, Abraham. The Fnrther Renches of H11111n11…

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…

NAMTA Journal 33/3 03 Early Childhood Principles: An Aid to Adolescent Practice

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sence of social existence. ft is a production and exchange, which does not only bring in the people living near to one, but…

NAMTA Journal 33/3 07 Experiences in Nature: Resolute Second-Plane Directions Toward Erdkinder

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1 would therefore initiate teachers into the observation of the most simple forms of living things, with all those aids which…

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