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

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…
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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…
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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 03 An Overview of Adolescence

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environment and where the transition from childhood to adulthood is not marked by a long period of preparation. Adolescent…
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During adolescence the young person separates from the older generation, re-evaluates his parental models and their values,…
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thinking enabling young people to go beyond the here and now. Because of formal operational thinking the adolescent is able:…
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Very often young people approach their academic work in a complex manner when, in reality, the tasks are relatively simple.…
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Activities may include, but are not limited to, lectures and discussions on psychological theory and application, debates, and…
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Montessori explains that, "The teacher must have the greatest respect for the personality of the adolescent,…
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Erikson, E. Identity. Youth and Crisis. (New York: Norton Press, 1968). Erikson, E. The Problem of Ego Identity, Journal of…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 06 Transition: Urban Montessori Secondary to Erdkinder

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TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 09 Research: Starting at Birth and Teaching New Mothers

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with a two-month old" and used video-tapes to demonstrate that once an infant has repeatedly experienced a cooing…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 10 Research: The Montessori Research: A Review of the Literature

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seems to be a result of developmental influences alone or direct instruction. O'Hern's study in 1932 examined the…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 11 Research: Child-Initiated Activity: How Important is it in Early Childhood Education?

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As psychologists became involved in early childhood education in the 1960s, they developed early childhood curriculum models…
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research on teaching and childrearing has pointed to the superiority of an "authoritative" or "…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 13 Building Correlations: Montessori Education for Moral Development

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work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 11 The Nature and Theory of Silence Activities in the Children's House

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Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of…
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requires participation. And finally, but importantly, silence should only be initiated at normal times when the room and those…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 14 AMI Montessori: Back to the Future

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of beliefs, its ability to ignite the enthusiasm and commitment of teach- ers, stems from a spiritual and undiluted energy…
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tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,…

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 03 Interview: The Kodaikanal Experience (Kahn-Montessori Interview)

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THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her…

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

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This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori…
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Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 08 Cosmic Education: Sowing Life, Not Theories

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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 01 Introduction

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observe her subjects in a holistic manner; consequently, her research was naturalistic or ethnographic. From her first…

NAMTA Journal 13/3 06 Research of Cognitive/Intellectual Development

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CHAPTER6 RESEARCH OF COGNITIVE/ INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT Introduction One of the earliest studies of intellectual…

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…
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Footnotes l Sofia Cavalletti, "The Spiritual Development of the Child," Montessori Thlks to Par- ents,…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 01 The Mainstreaming of Montessori in America

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THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 05 Montessori: The Humanities Connection—Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal

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Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is…
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all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened…

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…
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from one learning stage to the next, the first must be completely mastered. But Bruner implies that the conceptualization…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 03 Movement

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MOVEMENT by Constance Corbett Constance Corbett presents a comprehensive view of movement, it,s relatwnship to inwllectual…
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takes place without any voluntary effort on the part of the child. It is a time when children project themselves, by activity…
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sensorially, they are simultaneously absorbing the world into them- selves. Children build their conception of self and…
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Dewey, John. (1956). The ch:ild and the curriculum: the sclwol and soci.ety. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press. Hunt,…

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 15/3 10 Becoming Attached

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Attachment theory was itself born of three unlikely parents: ethol- ogy, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis -…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 02 Albert M. Joosten—A Biography

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ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 11 Interview: Keeping in Touch with Montessori Roots (An Interview with Mildred Gunawardena)

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Kahn: When you took the course in England, with Mario Montessori, how did cosmic education become evident to you? Gunawardena…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 18 Multi-Cultural Perspectives and School Reform

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Programs as one of its board members. They have some of the most exciting professional development meetings of any…
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the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 03 Language Unfolding In the Child

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Reading Analysis The child is shown how words have a particular place in a senrence: subjecr-predicare-objecr-clauses. She…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 04 The Child and the World of Nature

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In a 1.946 lecture in London Montessori said, "Education today needs one reform. If it is to prepare man for the…
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names of fruits and vegetables he sees as he is being pushed along the aisle of the grocery store, or kinds of cars, or colors…
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books are not enough. Mario Montessori Sr. reminded us of this when he noted how difficult it is to help children understand…
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names of different animals and plants-wonderful words like "red- winged blackbird" and "white-…
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the sun awakes them in the morning .... But instead of this, we anxiously ask ourselves how we can make a child sleep after…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 06 Developing The Mathematical Mind

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two-year-old child is able co represent events symbolically; for example, with language. Uzgiris and Hunt conducted one of…
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There is an interesting complement to these studies that Mario Montessori (1948) describes: The child absorbs a language…

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

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cultures throughout the world can yield a better understanding of orality and that an understanding of orality can help us…
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Goody, J. (1977). The domestica1ion of the savage mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goody, J. ( I 987). The…

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

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Montessori views personal autonomy as interconnected with social re- sponsibility and the evolution of human societies. The…
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theories of Erikson, Piaget, and other constructivists, the central theme of this new paradigm is the assumption that the…
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Bruner, Jerome S. ( 1971 ). The relevance of education. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. Chadwick, Bruce A; Bahr…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 02 The Fertile Field of Imagination

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favorite books or plays. An imagination makes it easier for me to see the ideas behind a story or a character. Most…

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

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I suggested that the beginning of this trail might be found in what Piaget calls the symbolic or semiotic function, which…
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Loeffler, Margaret H. (1980). An Investigation of the Relationship of Protowriting (Invented Spelling) and Cognitive…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 01 The Adolescent and the Future

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THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl…

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

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DR. MAruA. MONTESSORI AND THE CHILO by Dr. Mario Montessori I hope that you are not going to be disillusioned by what I say.…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 07 Bribes for Behaving: Why Behaviorism Doesn't Help Children Become Good People

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able to get good results from punishment" (Sears et al., 1957, pp. 485,486). The long-term results, however, were…
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thinking and choice making. School Psychology Review, 20, 382-88. Kutner, L 0990, November 29). As motivator, the carrot may…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 12 Montessori and Learning Disabilities

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A great deal of learning is dependent upon early sensorimotor integration and perceptual maturation. Children learn first…
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NJCLD Cl 988). Position paper on definition of learning disabili- ties. Baltimore: The Orton Dyslexia Society. Orton, J.L. (…

NAMTA Journal 19/3 01 Survey of Montessori Adolescent Programs: Interpretive Commentary

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art ................... . music ............... . reading ........... . French ............... . Spanish ............. .…
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This is the picture that emerges from the survey data of Median Montessori Middle School. That Median is in only its sixth…

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

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This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 10 The Roots of Environmental Concern

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rights to animals, plants, and the land itself is rare, this paper will recognize three sources of concern: fears for self-…
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such as the tendency to think that everything is made for people, intentionality of nature, or animism. Alongside this…
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If children's experiences are solely with the world of people, it is unlikely that they will develop ecological…
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enough with people to correct misconceptions regarding their behavior or the impact of human actions on their lives. When…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 11 Equal Opportunity and the Montessori Magnet School

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Navarra, J. G. (1955). The development of scientific concepts in a young child. New York: Columbia University Bureau of…

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

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Navarra, J. G. (1955). The development of scientific concepts in a young child. New York: Columbia University Bureau of…
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enough with people to correct misconceptions regarding their behavior or the impact of human actions on their lives. When…
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If children's experiences are solely with the world of people, it is unlikely that they will develop ecological…
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such as the tendency to think that everything is made for people, intentionality of nature, or animism. Alongside this…
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rights to animals, plants, and the land itself is rare, this paper will recognize three sources of concern: fears for self-…
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This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 06 Affection for Nature and the Promotion on Earth Stewardship in Childhood

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(1908/1985), faced this issue and concluded that children should be given an already-finished, beautiful garden. This might…

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

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In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,…
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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 20/3 11 Do Not Bequeath a Shamble—The Child in the Twenty-First Century: Innocent Hostage to Mindless Oppression…

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helping us to cut between the twin pitfalls of sentimentality and indifference in our relationship to children. Third, we can…

NAMTA Journal 21/1 01 Three Slide Shows for Parents

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unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 02 If Binet Had Looked Beyond The Classroom: The Assessment of Multiple Intelligences

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school. This is similar, in fact, to the task that was set for him by the Parisian government at the turn of the century. If,…

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

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you have nature. On the other hand, my view, my metaphysics, tells me that nurture changes nature. Before I go further, let…
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was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you…
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infants. In fact, they do it prenatally, that's what we now know. They're not tabulae rasae; they never were tabulae…

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