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

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 01 Of Roots and Wings

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OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 03 Elementary Montessori and Parent Education

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I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 01 The Botanical Cards

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THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 07 Cosmic Education and the Physical Sciences

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Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,…

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 13/2 10 Exploring with the Nine to Twelve Child

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scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The…

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 14/2 12 Interview: Introducing Luciano Mazzetti

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INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center…

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…
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The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 04 Response to Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other (Terranova)

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RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn 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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Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not…
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&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in…
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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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this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu…

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 17/3 28 The Children's Garden

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The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing…

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 18/3 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 07 A World Core Curriculum

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 13 Discipline

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NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy…

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 03 Nurturing the Creative Personality

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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 04 Montessori as an Aid to Life

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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…

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

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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…
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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of 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 20/3 03 A Day with Dr. Maria Montessori and Her Youthful Charges Is an Eye-Opener for the Average Parent

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To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 08 Commitment to Peace

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misery as it does in prosperity, in oppression as in freedom, in war as in peace, and that he did not really know what life is…

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

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At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain…

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

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If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of…

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 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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"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global…
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full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her…
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ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,…
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Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&…

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

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&…

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 04 Motivation: The Foundation of Successful Learning

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he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation…

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 23/2 01 Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom, A Life's Journey of Educational Ideas

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Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When…
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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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where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was…

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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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 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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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 25/3 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 26/1 02 Montessori Education and Optimal Experience: A Framework for the New Research

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this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude…

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…
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Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for…

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 11 Reflections from the Farm

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Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental…

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 18 Some Characteristics of a Montessori Erdkinder Compromise

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have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 19 The Kibbutz, Boy’s Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder

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Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an…
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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 21 Montessori High School

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The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 22 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 23 A Historical Look at Montessori's Erdkinder

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from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 01 Child Development Under Three: The Foundations of the Personality, the Family, and the Montessori Method

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forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a…

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 28/2 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…

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