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Sequence 8land, to support future races. "21 The emotional depiction of coral as part of a cosmic legacy of doing right by… |
Sequence 9stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental… |
Sequence 12Commentary The design and execution of this study is quite acceptable, but one criticism of the study would be the small… |
Sequence 2The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really… |
Sequence 1Montessori: The Humanities Connection Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal by David Kahn Montessori education may be a… |
Sequence 2The quiet in the class when the children were at work was complete and moving. No one had enforced it; and what is more, no… |
Sequence 10st,aff training. If we can raise funds for a new air conditioning unit, we can raise funds for sclw/,arships. We can be… |
Sequence 5from tomes of scope and sequence which compel schools into a blind confor- mity. The reform of education in the Montessori… |
Sequence 12Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "… |
Sequence 13Montessori years that come before-for what is laid out in the middle school years as we watch our children bec.ome adults is a… |
Sequence 12at five years of age has become an intelligent being, must have gone through a constructive evolution { TIii! Fonnation of Ma,… |
Sequence 11Obviously, many more activities or variations on activities can ease the transition into traditional education. However,… |
Sequence 9Informal Mathematics Mosr people use informal marhemarics in their daily lives narurally- organizing, classifying, numbering… |
Sequence 1NEEDS OF THE ELEMENTARY-AGE CHILD MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES, STRATEGIES, AND THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS by Rajendra K.… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum… |
Sequence 2Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the… |
Sequence 4the earth. The origin of life on earth, of humans, farms, cities, and empires is personified in the great lessons as invention… |
Sequence 16invention, it also provides the holistic, integrated basis for clarifying complex tensions between human and natural systems.… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 6are lo be transformed; instead of frustrating the learner's eager desire for work, as they so often do today, they are to… |
Sequence 13I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the… |
Sequence 6We must avoid placing limits on what a child will want to learn and digest by utilizing formalized curriculum scope and… |
Sequence 3tion and successful adaptation to the new environment. Originally called "attachment behavior" by John… |
Sequence 4II little real knowledge of it. Instead, it is lo those three essays, and in particular Lo "The Erdkinder,"… |
Sequence 10ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing… |
Sequence 12old were eliminated from the.sample. With this correction, the median size is 25 students (n=19). In other words, eliminating… |
Sequence 19schools. Maybe not in our schools, but perhaps in open schools, etc. They should also be academically competent in the… |
Sequence 3This great truth evokes in us a deep sense of humility and admiration. Children, who live a purer life than ours, are divine… |
Sequence 10cannot be free without being independent, hence, in order to gain independence, the active manifestations of personal liberty… |
Sequence 158cannot be free without being independent, hence, in order to gain independence, the active manifestations of personal liberty… |
Sequence 191This great truth evokes in us a deep sense of humility and admiration. Children, who live a purer life than ours, are divine… |
Sequence 1DARE TO Do ERDKINDER: REPORT FROM CHICAGO by John Long "What type of adult does civilization need?" This… |
Sequence 2third plane? Are we not immersed in some necessary creative tension as we strive to bind our present explorations with her… |
Sequence 121990, p. 37). The fact that the Montes- sori teachers interviewed seemed to spend more time than traditional teachers on… |
Sequence 9development, can build up in and around itself the foundations of peace. They have opened to mankind a new and luminous road… |
Sequence 14tor, kinesthetic experience as often as the spirit moves them. However the little gath- erings coalesce, to listen and move,… |
Sequence 1THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT by Linda Davis Linda Davis traces the Montessori view of… |
Sequence 2gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the… |
Sequence 13with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,… |
Sequence 4Chapter Two, "An Overview of the Primary Years," is an expert portrait of the prepared environment for the… |
Sequence 3their shelves, place a few toys and mats in the middle of the room, and establish a day care unit for babysitting during the… |
Sequence 9The prepared environment must allow for social interaction and be multi-aged. Research sug- gests that "the human… |
Sequence 4tion becomes possible if there are activities that are appropriate to the child. Activities need to catch interest, bring… |
Sequence 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
Sequence 4to do the task well had required from him a vol- untary control of his move- ments. Dr. Montessori stresses that it is… |
Sequence 8now 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… |
Sequence 21Anyone planning to involve children in a community participation project should be prepared to answer such questions as… |
Sequence 13this child showing me?" and you ask the child what he or she likes to do. My nephew attends a Montessori preschool.… |
Sequence 18two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
Sequence 9One of the aspects that distinguishes the Montessori approach to human development is that its theoretical framework emerged… |
Sequence 10Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
Sequence 8participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 18They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 4in a plundering industrial world of wires, wheels, and machines, of steel and plastics, of paved-over land and poisoned seas… |
Sequence 3In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 96In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 120in a plundering industrial world of wires, wheels, and machines, of steel and plastics, of paved-over land and poisoned seas… |
Sequence 195They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 205participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 229Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
Sequence 230One of the aspects that distinguishes the Montessori approach to human development is that its theoretical framework emerged… |
Sequence 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 4importantly, as the protector of the moral and spiritual forces that appear anew in every human being born" (… |
Sequence 19layers with the powers of observation and the proximity of the farm, it was our hope that these areas would seek their own… |
Sequence 6tion is the educational plan for six- to twelve-year-olds. The Greek idea of cosmos refers to the totality of the universe,… |
Sequence 7of his or her own favored styles of communicating with others and of which styles of others' expressive communication… |
Sequence 9what they said; some were pessimistic. The adolescent needs some- thing more than logic to have an optimistic view of… |
Sequence 2emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane"… |
Sequence 4appear more like a traditional junior high in miniature in some cases. But beneath this veneer of traditional time blocks and… |
Sequence 7Place-a place for adolescents to experience as a whole: a place that is an island of green for beholding, a place to work and… |
Sequence 11ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 5Near 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… |
Sequence 9We need to provide an environ- ment where children can experi- ence community, affirmation, love, and support first and… |
Sequence 12• Share this factual information with peers while listening to their diverse histories. • Write a story supported by the… |
Sequence 16ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g… |
Sequence 12... adolescents prove to be good teachers for small children who feel a certain repulsion for very adult personalities who… |
Sequence 4teaching be continued in a secondary school. Plans were devised to open a Montessori high school in Amsterdam and my father… |
Sequence 1ALIGNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by David Kahn As 250 Montessori schools in North America… |
Sequence 5to function in this way, it must be ordered and complete: The shelves must manifest the sequence so the children understand… |
Sequence 2and their expanding intellect (97-109). The prepared environment of the Erdkinder includes a working farm, a "museum… |
Sequence 20A. I think we' re only beginning to reach that. Stephen Kaplan and Rachel Kaplan, at the University of Michigan, have led… |
Sequence 5Unfortunately, adolescence is a period of life when society puts its young people in a hold· ing pattern. The frustration… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI AND OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE RESEARCH: TOWARD BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION REFORM by David Kahn ON NORMALIZATION… |
Sequence 2EXTENSIO ANIMAE AD MAGNA by Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme Elizabeth Wymer and Keith Boehme explain the philosophy of two… |
Sequence 6dynamic leader, the general on the white horse, the workaholic, the careerist, the successful capitalist. He, or she, is… |
Sequence 2Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must "give" this environment over to the… |
Sequence 11computer I cell phone ban. She and her father jokingly referred to the period of withdrawal that she experienced from her… |
Sequence 10* * * In the Erdkinder Appendices of From Childhood to Adolescence, Montessori presents the next logical step for history as… |
Sequence 1Montessori writes about the child, but this message applies to also to adults: His intelligence becomes whole and complete… |
Sequence 11The land school is a rescue for Montessori's "rhythm of life." The presentation by Camillo Grazzini and… |
Sequence 1THE KEY LESSONS OF THE THIRD ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM by David Kahn THEORY INTO PRACTICE: THE MONTESSORI COLLOQUIUM AS A… |
Sequence 3At the same time that McNamara was nurturing his classroom model, Phil Gang sought out the AMI point of view. In 1976,… |
Sequence 7repaying the loan to buy the mushrooms, so our profit margin is small. An unexpected benefit was that a local journalist heard… |
Sequence 13This is the phenomenon we call the "normalized class." It is so unique that I think we often take it for… |
Sequence 4which ensures the purity of the sea-water and the purity of the air during the many millions of years is called life"… |
Sequence 20INDEPENDENCE There are other qualities developed in Montessori children that will serve them as well when it comes time for… |
Sequence 21Inertia, generated by oversimplification, lack of concern, or trivializing a problem, is foreign to our children. They are… |
Sequence 15by Miss Child that "We don't sit on tables, dear," the young woman got down, as if hearing this for the… |
Sequence 5books, television, and computers. As these technologies have grown, so has the potential risk of disembodiment. Abram's… |