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NAMTA Journal 12/2 01 Montessori, Poverty and the Special Child

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condescend, we mutter hurried excuses and flee because we do not understand. There are millions of people who have difficulty…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 14 Feature: One World, One Drum

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ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of…

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

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in things, and impose different relationships upon them, even those which do violence to nature, by contradicting the ends and…

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 03 Longitudinal Studies

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Montessori classroom had one teacher and an aid for 25 children of lower and middle class socioeconomic status. Stodolsky…

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 14/1 06 The Montessori Middle School: A Personal Witness

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helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 09 The Acquisition of Spoken Language, The Nebula Hypothesis

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New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 02 The Art of Inquiry

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Eugene "Bull" O'Connor, a notoriously brutish man and a segregation- ist to the core. When efforts to…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 10 Evolution and Creation: Do We Have to Choose?

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this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th…

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 15/1 02 Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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each of us might have something to learn. Often, those who proclaim themselves fit to make ethical pronouncements for the…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 06 Class Discussion: A Scenario for The Trivium

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Passive listening to an external authority is replaced by an active search for the best means of expression and communication…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 08 Oft-Told Tales

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my students how they found a practice audience: *"My little brother and sister." *"My morn when…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 09 The Evolution of a Child-Centered Curriculum

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abilities, that were entirely absent from the schoolroom in the previous ages. Consequently, attention of educationists was…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 02 Normalization

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newspapers, and magazines. People began to speak of the "Discovery of the Child," and the discovery of the…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 07 Montessori and Suzuki

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builds from the concrete to the abstract. Suzuki method teachers paral- lel this approach in their ordering of the pieces…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 08 Multicultural Dimensions of Montessori: Philosophy and Method

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"soup" to a "salad bowl" concept in which each ingredient maintains its separate flavor,…

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 16/2 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 16/2 04 The Objectives of the Paideia Proposal

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THE OB)ECl1VFS OF THE PAIDEIA PROPOSAL* by Mortimer J. Adler "Piecemeal refonn measures beget piecemeal results, if…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 16 Systemic Change and Educational Reform

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be based on what was known about curriculum, teaching, learning, and the conditions that would produce improved learner…
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Grumet, M.R (1989). "Dinner at Abigail's: Nurturing collaboration." NEA Today, 7(6), 20-25. Livingston…

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,…
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And to the European Congress of Peace in Brussels she said: Preventing conflicts is the work of politics; establishing peace…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 06 Order in Consciousness

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ORDER IN CoNSCIOUSNFs.5 by Jim Roberts As a Montessori primary teacher, Jim Roberts had often observed deep joy in his…

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 17/2 07 Production and Management

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Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 08 Selected Appendices (introduction)

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Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,…

NAMTA Journal 17/3 17 Plant Sale (Upper Elementary)

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Plant Sale (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker A venture into the business of growing and selling annuals and veg•…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 03 Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education

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would wish to replicate all aspects of this phenomenon in our schools, it seems important to understand the nature of their…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 05 The Development of Autonomy in Children: An Examination of the Montessori Educational Model

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY IN CHILDREN: AN EXAMINATION OF THE MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL MODEL by Sharon Dubble Kendall, Ph.D…

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 18/1 13 The Montessori Erdkinder: Three Abstracts

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Communities: plant, animal, human Diversity and Stability: preservation, agriculture, forest and wildlife manage- ment, soil…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 06 Literature and Grammar

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There are dozens of words that you can pick out to give to children. Bankrupt means someone whose bench has been broken (rupto…
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coming in on the noun which gives the stress and keeps the rhythm right. Each child speaks the noun when he comes in;…

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 18/3 03 Montessori Adolescent Education: Toward an Emerging Framework

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Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected…
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Proposed Schools Cincinnati Denver Prince George's St. Paul County, MO Years In Operation or Projected Fall, 1994…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 07 Characteristics of Students' Imaginative Lives, Ages Eight to Fifteen

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somehow transcends them. Many of the "teen-exploitation" movies, such as Ferris Beu bier's Day Off, or…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 12 Breakthrough in Evolution: Toward a Partnership Future

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which it is based. We have also seen that a gylanic 2 or partnership society, symbolized by life-sustaining and enhancing…
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as "an impediment" or "a danger" (p. 87). Thus, they can perceive service to others not as…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 05 Dr. Maria Montessori and the Child

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to wh:11 was happening in ordinary life: There the children were disorderly, always leaving Lhings lying around, and the…

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 20/1 07 Cosmic Education and Literature-Based Teaching

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chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 13 The Montessori Approach to Music

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THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am…

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

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THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am…
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chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a…

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 09 Claude Claremont's Contribution to the History of Science and Engineering

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the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of…

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 20/2 16 A Literacy Worth Having

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using knowledge-in ways and con- texts that build and strengthen them and the community. The best way to learn and practice…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 02 Maria Montessori and the "Glass House"

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these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"…
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and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.…

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 15 Response to "Parenting for Independence"

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RESPONSE TO .11p ARENTING FOR INDEPENDENCE" by Anne McNamara Anne McNamara, who submitted the original William…

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 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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adult who can work for the good of humanity and can participate in humanity's (cosmic) mission on this Earth. This is…
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MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (…

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 21/3 08 Montessori: A Caring Pedagogy

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At the Primary level, the activities of practical life, with artistic use of "points of interest," provide…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 07 Transforming Children into Storytellers

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the theatrics of Laurence Davies and Bill Cook, Molly brings an old piece of cloth to her telling and she dashes back and…
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But why push children to tell stories? Why is it important to take that additional step? As we have seen, preparing a story…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 08 Evolution and Flow

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In any case, when the conditions of flow are present, people tend to report an optimal state of inner harmony that they desire…

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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Phases of the Creative Process In fact, as you probably know, the creative process is usually seen as made up of four phases…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 07 The Prepared Environment

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presently dealing with. The notion expressed in this statement seems to me to be of the greatest importance since the adult in…

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

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tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have…

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 23/1 15 Digging Down Deep: Educational Experiences with the Earth in a Gardening/Farming Context

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during the year. At the North Country School, there occurs a Harvest Day during the fall, in which the entire school…

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 23/2 04 The Impact of India

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discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 02 World Odyssey: Revelations of the Possible

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Montessori. As a first step, every document kept at the AMI has been photocopied. This task has now been completed and the…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 03 Past, Present, and Possible: A Montessori Global Perspective

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Pearce,Joseph Chilton. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,…

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

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With that vision, however, Maria Montessori joins the ranks of the great educational philosophers of all time and gains 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 13 Children's Participation: Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care

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Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik…

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 24/1 16 Maria Montessori: A Learner Taught by Children

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She characterizes the "old- fashioned type of professor" as having a "high desk upon a plat- form…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 01 The Spiritual Development of the Child: Keeping the Balance

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center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 05 The History of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

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AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures…

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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made possession with which he can do as he wishes. Rather he will be keenly aware that the child belongs to God much more…

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

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Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 11 The Spiritual Challenge of Erdkinder – Part 1: The Passage from Imaginative Vision to Concrete Experience

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The human is a great collaborator. And nature welcomes a gentle intervention. The trees' wounds will heal, and the maple…

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