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Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 17Boehnlein, Mary. (1984). A study of college/uruversity accredited Montessori teacher training programs. NAMTA Quarterly, 9, 49… |
Sequence 1A TIME TO READ By Peggy Kahn All children have to start at the beginning, exploring first what they can reach out and touch… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 2the use of video-taped observations. She also depended on the random- ness of the assignment of the children to compensate for… |
Sequence 4The sick body draws itself, the "body without organs" of the philoso- phers illustrates itself, evicted,… |
Sequence 2for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture… |
Sequence 2for uniting the family and the school with a passionate plea for respect- ing the culture of the home, especially the culture… |
Sequence 1ORDER IN CoNSCIOUSNFs.5 by Jim Roberts As a Montessori primary teacher, Jim Roberts had often observed deep joy in his… |
Sequence 1HAPP~ REvlSITED by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spmt the last 25 years pursuing an understanding of… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENTAL CONTINUUM Merging Designs With Prepared Environments "Flow" is the way people… |
Sequence 6coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting… |
Sequence 12coverage in the Washington Post. NAMTA, with its specialization in media, will manage the publications and videos resulting… |
Sequence 65MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENTAL CONTINUUM Merging Designs With Prepared Environments "Flow" is the way people… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 14NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy… |
Sequence 8sensitive period pertinent to each age group, activity, and spontaneous passing into abstraction were possible for the… |
Sequence 1REsHAPING EARLY CHIIDHOOD INrnRVENTION To BE A MoRE EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST POVER1Y by Edward Zigler, PhD Drawing on his… |
Sequence 1F~I'-------------------- BREAKTHROUGH IN EvoLunoN: TowARD A PARTNERSIDP FUITJRE by Riane Eisler Jn The Chalice and… |
Sequence 3phasic plan converging on maturity: the maturity of children, the matu- rity of teachers and parents, the maturity of… |
Sequence 13Mary: I allow my little boy to dress in the kitchen. Usually he wants to stay near me at the start of the day. Sally: I… |
Sequence 1NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 1This is the first year of NAMT A's Administrators' Group, an attempt to forge stronger relationships between… |
Sequence 3Although there is no genealogical link to the Montessori world, several Montessori educators, including David Kahn, executive… |
Sequence 10more appropriate path. Both programs provide specific behavioral suggestions for leaders that may provide helpful scaffolding… |
Sequence 9personnel, we had seven storytellers. The list of storytellers during those two years was wide-ranging: • Rod Alexander,… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION AND FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dr. Csikszentmihalyi presents his theory of "flow" in the… |
Sequence 2Freedom-a/low control over the activity. To give more control and freedom gives even more interesting options. We must set… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART 1 Now we get to the hardest part, because the first day I talked about… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND CREATIVITY by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART 1 Thank you. Yes, it's difficult in a way to talk about creativity… |
Sequence 1THE GROWTH OF COMPLEXITY: SHAPING MEANINGFUL LIVES by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Reed Larson As an outgrowth of Dr.… |
Sequence 3Collaboration also underlies all good work with children. Alfie Kahn's useful contrast of "doing to"… |
Sequence 1MOTIVATION: THE FOUNDATION OF SUCCESSFUL LEARNING by Mary B. Verschuur Like Alfie Kohn, Mary Verschuur emphasizes that… |
Sequence 4As we listened to the current scientific knowledge and theologi- cal understanding of cosmic evolution, biological evolution,… |
Sequence 7What, then, is the central human issue of culture, viewed scien- tifically, within the Epic of Evolution? It is the issue of… |
Sequence 1Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 204 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 23, No. 1 • Winter 1998 |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 5Figure 1 suggests that the vision and understanding of Erdkinder must come through a variety of pathways, beginning with… |
Sequence 6Montessori tells us that the adolescent wants to experience roles in society outside of the family. In order to create… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states that "growing up"… |
Sequence 2... education researchers have shown that someone who experiences in- terest in a topic also demonstrates more complex… |
Sequence 2DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 1t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA… |
Sequence 4Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 1THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 2ENCOURAGING THE CREATIVE VOICE OF THE CHILD by Bruce Torff Coming from the perspective of higher education, Dr. Torff… |
Sequence 5I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 44I'm going to suggest today that creative expression is as vital to a human being's development and learning as any… |
Sequence 47ENCOURAGING THE CREATIVE VOICE OF THE CHILD by Bruce Torff Coming from the perspective of higher education, Dr. Torff… |
Sequence 123THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 175Six-year-old girls dressed in white aprons and scarves are making no-bake cookies in the public kindergarten class of… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI' S POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: A LASTING IMPRINT by David Kahn Often it is difficult to create a cohesive… |
Sequence 2POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE EMERGING PARADIGM by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Positive Psychology takes the focus off… |
Sequence 2INNOVATION wrmm LIMITS: How Is IT PossIBLE? A SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS by David Kahn On Februan; 14, 2000, NAMT A… |
Sequence 3Presenters at the Innovation within Limits Seminar E. Thomas Casey, registered architect, came to the Taliesin Fellowship in… |
Sequence 13Now a little bit about the challenges I have come across. I find that not having these very powerful two people, our founders… |
Sequence 3For optimal development, each successive stage would find its match in an educational environment that meets the needs of the… |
Sequence 3interests (Gardner), focusing on motivation and preparation for life- long learning (Eccles et al.), and many other ideas that… |
Sequence 5miliar with the Montessori method will begin to see the connections immediately. After the summary, key points of intersection… |
Sequence 20on and found their children strikingly independent, good natured, and well adjusted. Two regional papers, including the… |
Sequence 1PREPARING FOR THE WORLD OF WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider, David Shernoff, and Lisa Hoogstra "… |
Sequence 22overall melody and intonation. It's just like perceiving music. Chil- dren really are quite good at perceiving music.… |
Sequence 12If the human being is what we study, then we must create an environment which uniquely addresses the psychologi- cal… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 2cence is the discovery of a character being born. Character is an inevitable synthesis of the adolescent's previous life… |
Sequence 24progression of mathematical concepts from Algebra I to Algebra II to Trigonometry, culminating in Calculus. Mr. Miller also… |
Sequence 5Service to the Community: The Art of Living Developing and using our individuality does not preclude serving the community.… |
Sequence 2THE Gooo WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi INTRODUCTION Dr. Csikszentmihaly incisively defines soul "as a person… |
Sequence 9(although this may well be- come a thirty-minute period as fitness levels rise). The time scheduled for the fitness… |
Sequence 1PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT, AGES TWELVE TO FIFTEEN by David Kahn This… |
Sequence 3thrown out of that garden, cursed "to till the ground from whence [ they were] taken" (Genesis 3:23), the… |
Sequence 2THE EVOLVING NATIJRE OF WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Beginning with a definition of work built around a systems view of… |
Sequence 1THE Goon WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Researching the working lives of geneticists and journalists, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi… |
Sequence 13You know, children who grew upon farms used to learn that. They knew that if they didn't get up at four or five in the… |
Sequence 2BUILDINGS THAT NURTURE by Victor Sidy Using principles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Maria Montessori, Victor Sidy has created a… |
Sequence 10Inside the classrooms, we configured the lighting and heating/ cooling ducts to accommodate an open vaulted ceiling rather… |
Sequence 7baby to fall in Jove with one another (Uvnas-Moberg). Thus breastfeeding assists the baby in becoming pleasure tolerant and… |
Sequence 2its foundation a kind of "psychic hygiene" which helps men to grow up in a good mental health. (34) This… |
Sequence 5measuring levels of engagement. NAMTA plans to explore flow in relation to all stages of development as well as to review best… |
Sequence 2A COMPARISON OF MONTESSORI AND TRADITIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOLS: MOTIVATION, QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT by Kevin… |
Sequence 4Goal theory and optimal experience theory link well to Montessori pedagogy. Goal theory identifies two kinds of goals: task… |
Sequence 2COMMENTARY ON Two MANUSCRIPTS BY KEVIN RATHUNDE AND MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI by Rita Schaefer Zener Finally someone has… |
Sequence 7will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one. (The Child in the Family 43) And in… |
Sequence 15consistent in expectations and guidelines, and by gentle invitation so that intimacy develops through one-to-one interactions… |
Sequence 10says, "his character is changed. It is as though he had taken off a mask" (Education for a New World 121).… |
Sequence 13It must be stressed that this stage is of the utmost importance both for the young children and for those who emer school at… |
Sequence 2THE ADOLESCENT AND THE f AMILY: LOVE AND LIMITS by Linda Davis Linda Davis characterizes the adolescent's time in life… |
Sequence 12Montessori, Maria. "A New Education for the Secondary School: A Public Lecture Given at Utrecht, January 18, 1937 (… |
Sequence 2PROJECT 2012: HISTORY WHITHER BOUND FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES by David Kahn… |
Sequence 9I would like to take a moment to acknowledge NAMTA, and its officers past and present. NAMT A has, it seems to me, offered to… |
Sequence 1THE 2005 NAMTA MONTESSORI SCHOOL SALARY SURVEY Interpretation and analysis by David Kahn, John McNamara, and Kristin Sasaki… |
Sequence 14Surprisingly, in some cases median administrator salaries are actually lower than the median salaries of teachers with… |
Sequence 2dents in the equivalent of ninth through twelfth grade, but the school has since expanded to two adjacent campuses. The Farm… |
Sequence 3After twenty-seven years of conferences, colloquia, grassroots organizing, program implementation, and international… |
Sequence 5Local Demand for a Montessori High School Model Cleveland (northeast Ohio) is the second oldest Montessori hub in the United… |
Sequence 8• Substitution of the adult will, where the adult force-feeds the child, is a very undermining approach. Telling people what… |
Sequence 3NAMTA's Center for Adolescent Studies (Project 2012) is initiat- ing a new research study after its previous success with… |
Sequence 4Rathunde, Kevin, & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "Middle School Students' Motivation and Quality of… |
Sequence 1A Montessori Journey: 1907-2007 The NAMTA Centenary Exhibit THE NAMTAJouRNAL VoL 32, No. 3 SUMMER 2007 In affiliation… |