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Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 9With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ… |
Sequence 12is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 9With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ… |
Sequence 12is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 4Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of… |
Sequence 9requires participation. And finally, but importantly, silence should only be initiated at normal times when the room and those… |
Sequence 2of beliefs, its ability to ignite the enthusiasm and commitment of teach- ers, stems from a spiritual and undiluted energy… |
Sequence 7tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 1THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her… |
Sequence 3This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori… |
Sequence 5Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the… |
Sequence 9stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental… |
Sequence 2The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really… |
Sequence 10Footnotes l Sofia Cavalletti, "The Spiritual Development of the Child," Montessori Thlks to Par- ents,… |
Sequence 1THE ACTIVITY AND ART OF READING by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren Dr. Adler's cw.ssicrendering of the thinking… |
Sequence 4the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 3Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is… |
Sequence 12all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 119. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Mcu;kin.ery of Nature: The Living World Around Us - And How It Works (New York: Simon and Schuster,… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 1ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal… |
Sequence 5Kahn: When you took the course in England, with Mario Montessori, how did cosmic education become evident to you? Gunawardena… |
Sequence 25Reading Analysis The child is shown how words have a particular place in a senrence: subjecr-predicare-objecr-clauses. She… |
Sequence 4In a 1.946 lecture in London Montessori said, "Education today needs one reform. If it is to prepare man for the… |
Sequence 5names of fruits and vegetables he sees as he is being pushed along the aisle of the grocery store, or kinds of cars, or colors… |
Sequence 6books are not enough. Mario Montessori Sr. reminded us of this when he noted how difficult it is to help children understand… |
Sequence 8names of different animals and plants-wonderful words like "red- winged blackbird" and "white-… |
Sequence 9the sun awakes them in the morning .... But instead of this, we anxiously ask ourselves how we can make a child sleep after… |
Sequence 3There is an interesting complement to these studies that Mario Montessori (1948) describes: The child absorbs a language… |
Sequence 22Carew, T., et al. 0990). The Development of Leaming and Memory in Aplysia. In J. McGaugh, N. Weinberger, and G. Lynch (Eds… |
Sequence 24Minsky, M. 0985). The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster. Montanero, S. Q. 0991). Understanding the Human Being:… |
Sequence 12favorite books or plays. An imagination makes it easier for me to see the ideas behind a story or a character. Most… |
Sequence 1THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl… |
Sequence 1WHO'S TEACIDNG TIIE CHIIDREN TO TALK? by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D. Jane Healy highlights the crucial role of language in… |
Sequence 16Ardini, R. 0979). Feminism and science. In R. Arditti, P. Brennan, & S. Cavrak (Eds.), Science and liberation. Boston… |
Sequence 1DR. MAruA. MONTESSORI AND THE CHILO by Dr. Mario Montessori I hope that you are not going to be disillusioned by what I say.… |
Sequence 24art ................... . music ............... . reading ........... . French ............... . Spanish ............. .… |
Sequence 57This is the picture that emerges from the survey data of Median Montessori Middle School. That Median is in only its sixth… |
Sequence 8This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 1NURTURING THE GROWING BRAIN by Jane M. Healy, PhD Dr. Healy's plea for the developing child calls for the removal of… |
Sequence 153NURTURING THE GROWING BRAIN by Jane M. Healy, PhD Dr. Healy's plea for the developing child calls for the removal of… |
Sequence 160This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 3In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 10unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 2gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the… |
Sequence 4Development" 1 and more detail in From Childhood to Adolescence (French first edition 1948). What were the… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 9With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ… |
Sequence 12is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts;and,finally,… |
Sequence 15"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 5In a Montessori class, there is a continual unfolding of how the world was prepared for humanity and the development of… |
Sequence 10Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Harper Collins. Healy, J.M. (1990). Endangered… |
Sequence 30Healy, J. (1990). Endangered minds: Why children don't think and what we can do about it. New York: Touchstone/Simon… |
Sequence 37• Use the "gentling the violence" technique, developed by a Hungarian woman named Magda Gerber, who founded… |
Sequence 38Branden, N. (1997). The art of living consciously. New York: Simon & Schuster. Briggs, D.C. (1970). Your child's… |
Sequence 4As we listened to the current scientific knowledge and theologi- cal understanding of cosmic evolution, biological evolution,… |
Sequence 1Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When… |
Sequence 2"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
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 1Kodaikanal, India THE KooAIKANAL EXPERIENCE: KAHN-MONTESSORI INTERVIEW by David Kahn David Kahn: You once alluded to… |
Sequence 1London, England THE CHILD BEFORE SEVEN YEARS OF AGE THE CHILD AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF AGE and WHAT CHILDREN TAUGHT DR.… |
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 9Montessori. As a first step, every document kept at the AMI has been photocopied. This task has now been completed and the… |
Sequence 1PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE: A MONTESSORI GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer, whose sense of mission and single… |
Sequence 2Mario Montessori was unique in a very special way. He was highly intel- ligent, wise, naughty, and great fun. He was… |
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 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 5She was a teacher, a leader, and a charismatic personality, but she was full of humanity and fun. She felt you could not live… |
Sequence 2South Africa is the southern tip of the African continent. A country of contrasts-from the trees of the dinosaurs to the… |
Sequence 10better still, to the value of work in general, "with its wide social connotations of productiveness and earning power… |
Sequence 14Obviously these past experiments that were undertaken by Montessori's contemporaries can be used as a source of ideas, so… |
Sequence 23does not hinder study, but even makes it possible to study better" (Adolescence, Schocken 104). The research into… |
Sequence 25Montessori also refers to materials for mathematics when she says, "Because of this vital importance of mathematics… |
Sequence 19Hakim, Joy. "Reading, Writing, and ... History." History Mat- ters! (May 1996): 19 pars. 1 Dec. 1998 <… |
Sequence 7nation, she rejects Froebel's way of doing so on the basis of fantasy because, as she says, it forces the child to &… |
Sequence 15grateful have apparently been also self-serving, a strange and intrigu- ing paradox! To begin to see that "an… |
Sequence 28the ecological sense of our connection to the cosmos and other genera- tions of living beings. Our own personal destiny cannot… |
Sequence 16Light Expanding, Radiant Rushing, Giving, Receiving It burns in all of us, The Giver REFERENCES Cajete, Greg. Look to the… |
Sequence 2FOREWORD TO THE SECRET OF CHILDHOOD by Margaret E. Stephenson Margaret Stephenson's classic introduction to the root… |
Sequence 5It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |