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Sequence 6outer world we have altered our inner world. A barren Earth will be mirrored in the depths of the human soul (1992, p. 249).… |
Sequence 1GROWING SCHOOLS FOR HUMAN GROWTH by Sharon Dubble Sharon Dubble' s philosophy of developing schools incorporates a… |
Sequence 2Yet here we are, coming together to talk about schools-how to build whole schools. And we are drawn to learn together as a… |
Sequence 14part begins to compete for attention, resources, power. There is a climate of "us versus them": primary… |
Sequence 1PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT FOR THE NORTH AVONDALE MONTESSORI SCHOOL by the Cincinnati Public Schools Montessori Assessment… |
Sequence 4we introduce the children to the idea of respect of all of us for one another. (Stephenson, 1993, p. 26) A rich body of… |
Sequence 6• Self-Perfection and its close allies Repetition and Exactness (the tendency to become better human beings); and • Creation… |
Sequence 8"The concept is that the total environment design conveys the essential principles of all disciplines through… |
Sequence 24investment in the school culture. It is the relationship with the guide, however, that ultimately determines whether the… |
Sequence 27WHAT'S WRONG WITH TUTORING? Life is a search for meaning. Meaning is the key to a satisfying life. For us Montessorians… |
Sequence 29inclusive community, not one that divides them in order to conquer, but one that unifies them in order to set them free. I… |
Sequence 1FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is… |
Sequence 2Freedom-a/low control over the activity. To give more control and freedom gives even more interesting options. We must set… |
Sequence 14son to follow in his footsteps, but the son decided to join the goldsmith's guild because suddenly being an artist was… |
Sequence 3feelings. Coles tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who refused to participate in a spelling bee, despite her teacher… |
Sequence 1INTEGRATING CSIKSZENTMIHALYI AND MONTESSORI by Chulanganee Fernando As a tribute to Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's work, Ms.… |
Sequence 1NORMALIZATION AND NORMALITY ACROSS THE PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by David Kahn With the current emphasis on the four planes of… |
Sequence 8Montessorians say that chil- dren are "normalized," they usually mean that they find work without being… |
Sequence 11selves to concentration" (Montessori, 1948, p. 23). Normality de- pends on harnessing the deep synthesizing powers of… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES Gebhardt-Seele, P. (1997). Evaluating experiences in adolescent programs. The NAMTA Journal, 22(1), 14-21.… |
Sequence 2THE NORMALIZED CHILD by Kathleen H. Futrell Kit Futrell's classic, based on a parent talk she first delivered in 1966,… |
Sequence 1THE SPIRITUAL REGENERATION OF MAN by Maria Montessori This article recasts the role of normalization as "spiritual… |
Sequence 2PART I UNDERSTANDING SELF-DISCIPLINE Like others I had believed that it was necessary to encourage a child by means of some… |
Sequence 4another more spiritual realm. Maria Montessori said, "creative work ... lifts man up from earth and transports him… |
Sequence 6creative flow and forget all else. There is a sustained drive toward perfection. Artists follow an inner voice that compels… |
Sequence 8But the mind must have something to express. Imagination rests on facts and on information which have accumulated in some… |
Sequence 1PART II THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION Since it has been seen to be necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision… |
Sequence 7from the Great Community of the Universe. This Primordial Com- munity existed through the presence of the indwelling Spirit… |
Sequence 8universe is an imposing reality, and an answer to all questions. We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things… |
Sequence 9coursed through her in new streams" (1948/1991, p. 59). How appropriate a way of indicating the moment when the Earth… |
Sequence 1PART III PREPARING FOR ERDKINDER Therefore work on the land is an introduction both to nature and to civilization and gives… |
Sequence 19One of the things that is producing this tumult, the first, is why did I agree to do this? At first I imagined, if Maria… |
Sequence 4which evolves on its own terms. Like the child, as human culture grows with the passage of time, it becomes more conscious of… |
Sequence 6often closed his eyes; he seemed to be offering his ideas as a prayer, reaching for something intangible (as reflected in the… |
Sequence 1Mario Montessori standing behind Maria Montessori at the Theosophical Society, 1947. Seated at right: Sir Archibald Nye,… |
Sequence 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 1Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &… |
Sequence 1/J~ ---------------------- MONTESSORI EDUCATION: p AST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE by David Kahn In 1998, Renilde Montessori… |
Sequence 1WORLD ODYSSEY: REVELATIONS OF THE POSSIBLE by Renilde Montessori In eloquent style, RenildeMontessori speaks of restoring… |
Sequence 2It has been said that change is of the essence-in our courses, in our schools, in ourselves. Perhaps it is not so much… |
Sequence 3Since the death of Mario Montessori in 1982, the expansion of Montessori endeavors has grown to a frenzy of inchoate… |
Sequence 4The influence and success of Montessori education far exceeds even the worldwide recognition of the ideas of John Dewey. How… |
Sequence 6step to make the movement operational, AMI has opened a new chapter, under the name Educateurs sans Frontieres. Definition… |
Sequence 8THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have… |
Sequence 9Montessori. As a first step, every document kept at the AMI has been photocopied. This task has now been completed and the… |
Sequence 9Another important point comes to my mind. A very eminent man, Dr. John Thompson, a friend of both Mario and Dr. Montessori-who… |
Sequence 17us listen to the words of Maria Montessori, for she is reminding us that if we can do what we have just been saying, We find… |
Sequence 18Pearce,Joseph Chilton. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,… |
Sequence 2THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURES: THE MONTESSORI CONTRIBUTION by Winfried Bohm translated by Devan Barker In this masterful… |
Sequence 3.. . by talking about Montessori edu- cation in terms of its theoretical roots, we are not talking about something which is… |
Sequence 4natural science and the humanities, of experimental research and speculative philosophy, of realistic description of facts and… |
Sequence 51. A GLOBAL ANO COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL CONCEPT If we agree that Maria Montessori developed a global and compre- hensive… |
Sequence 6gathered from throughout the world were more than just a little shocked to hear her begin her speech with the honest admission… |
Sequence 8If you take the time to study the publications of Maria Montessori thoroughly and carefully, you will find confirmed on every… |
Sequence 9Here is where we come to the core of Montessori's thought. For if a per- son, that is every individual person, could… |
Sequence 10Susanne Gunkel, one of my former doctoral students, wrote a master's thesis wherein she identified four basic principles… |
Sequence 11theories of a few other great educational philosophers of a similar caliber. Please note, I am speaking of a comparison… |
Sequence 12programmed computer can be called up and printed out. This theory might seem modern to you; in reality, however, it is over… |
Sequence 15With that vision, however, Maria Montessori joins the ranks of the great educational philosophers of all time and gains the… |
Sequence 2THE MONTESSORI FAMILY AND ME by Margot W altuch This beautiful vignette of Margot Waltuch' s connection to the… |
Sequence 8returning to India again we got married. We are very happy to be all together here now .... Dr. Montessori is much better than… |
Sequence 11we are all dedicated to continues on, for the children of this world. I quote Maria Montessori: Education must no longer be… |
Sequence 7Prepare teachers through prolonged practice with observation of nature .... (Discovery 66-77) And when I talk about freedom… |
Sequence 19Montessori, Maria. The Montessori Method. Trans. A. George. 1912. New York: Schocken, 1962. Montessori, Maria. The Secret of… |
Sequence 2... education researchers have shown that someone who experiences in- terest in a topic also demonstrates more complex… |
Sequence 2FOREWORD When I was asked to prepare a blurb for this presentation, I decided it was important to give some background… |
Sequence 3INTRODUCTION Before considering Erdkinder specifically, let us recall what Montessori says about work, the adult's work… |
Sequence 12in other words, who had been deeply scarred by the war, injured in both body and soul. 6 Other types of institutions have… |
Sequence 13community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 24United States), a few of the more significant ones could be selected. On the basis of this documentation, it would be possible… |
Sequence 25Montessori also refers to materials for mathematics when she says, "Because of this vital importance of mathematics… |
Sequence 26What guarantee, after all, can the Erdkinder community offer parents? There are no existing Erdkinder com- munities (in the… |
Sequence 30In other words, what is needed now is a single integrated plan, both for each component aspect of the Erdkinder community and… |
Sequence 6But the above interaction with the land could be any environmental project, not specifically Erdkinder. Looking to previous… |
Sequence 2MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE by Edward Warburton Givingduecredit toMontessori'sholisticeducation,… |
Sequence 3Howard Gardner's work and the present state of his Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which debunks traditional notions of… |
Sequence 11the plungers. Recreating this experiment in a simple form helps bring the story to life ina way that just hearing it can'… |
Sequence 13In Maria Montessori' s lifetime, the cosmic importance of the bacte- ria was not known. We now know that the story of… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
Sequence 2phenomenon have more disas- trous effects than in education. Teachers have the best inten- tions, but best intentions kill… |
Sequence 10birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is characterized by this: with… |
Sequence 2It is no doubt that Maria Montessori saw a divine presence in young children which made them" all-powerful,"… |
Sequence 4center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human… |
Sequence 3in an experience of religious education known as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd… |
Sequence 4In these pages I would like to make a short commentary about the two elements Maria Montessori mentioned-the joy and the… |
Sequence 5-------------------------------- -- --- Three-year-old Mark (USA), being told by his mother that the Good Shepherd calls… |
Sequence 6A little three-year-old Mexican girl said to her mother, who wanted to make her pray, "I pray alone and in silence.… |
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 3If we delay catechesis until the customary age of six, the child has moved into a new ethical stage in life when God is more… |
Sequence 5Cavalletti had taken Hebrew classes with Zolli and, after earning her doctorate, became his colleague. He is well-known… |
Sequence 7-------------------------------- -- Many catechists have observed that the atrium becomes even more important to older… |
Sequence 3religious sense. They are a way to worship and to express adoration, love, and a total gift of themselves, in a cosmic… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
Sequence 1SCIENCE AND FAITH: MARIA MONTESSORI' S PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION by Robert G. Buckenmeyer Dr. Buckenmeyer' sarray of… |
Sequence 2Psychologists, on the other hand, were traditionally foot-bound, over- burdened with statistical evidence, viewing "… |
Sequence 5phers from Socrates, in the Apology, referring to himself as a midwife; through the early Medi- eval period, beginning… |
Sequence 6is why they start a search for know ledge of that Truth. Such is also the case with Montessori's search into how children… |
Sequence 8room, calmly smiling. She sat down at the edge of my bed and asked me: "Mario, do you see the chandelier swinging… |
Sequence 17not yet fully formed: he has not yet gathered about him the last folds of his robe of flesh and of love which is made up of… |
Sequence 1THE RELATION BETWEEN THE CHILD'S WORK AND COSMIC WORK by Gianna Gobbi Gianna Gobbi' s essay speaks to the &… |