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Kahn • Preface: Practical Life
Preface: Practical life–
a transforming realization from
Birth to adulthood
by David Kahn… |
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Montessori • Movement and Character
movement and character
lecture, london, 1946
by Maria Montessori
Dr. Montessori’s… |
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Ramani • Practical Life: The Keystone of Life, Culture, and Community
Practical life: the Keystone of life,
culture, and… |
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Ramani • Practical Life: The Keystone of Life, Culture, and Community
her use of the term exercises
of practical life… |
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Soholt • Practical Life for the Older Children in the Casa
that need maintenance. One child may show an interest in… |
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Baker • The Significance of the Hand for the Elementary Years
from the time of his first appearance upon the earth traces… |
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Baker • The Significance of the Hand for the Elementary Years
tion of the teacher. The teacher needs to be well-versed in… |
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Provide Enough Time for the Child to Work
The greatest obstacle that… |
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Ludick • The Work of the Hand
Here is the overview that will lead us forward. There will be
four subtopics related to our… |
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Next we will consider the big picture, which is the continuum
of… |
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Ludick • The Work of the Hand
all that is happening naturally within the child and growing adoles-
cent, not something we… |
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From Education for a New World (49) we read,
We cannot separate what… |
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Ludick • The Work of the Hand
hiking, cooking, juggling, riding, artistic selves.... This not
only signifies but proves… |
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the work of the hand and the brain and the imagination here, there,
and… |
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Ludick • The Work of the Hand
Through the practice of handwork, children of all ages perfect
movements of their hands,… |
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hopes and dreams. Dr. Montessori says that the adolescent should
learn… |
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Ludick • The Work of the Hand
the constructive stages of human develoPment and the
worK of the hand: the Big Picture
We… |
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How do you, at your level, respect the child’s and
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adolescent’s need… |
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Ludick • The Work of the Hand
its immense physical and intellectual development, is a
miracle standing in front of us. (… |
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Philosophers of education describe three periods of learning.
Maria… |
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Rogers • Sacred Second
“The second period,” Mon-
tessori writes in The Discovery
of the Child, “is the most impor-… |
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A child’s work, Montessori insisted, should not be interrupted.
The… |
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Rogers • Sacred Second
story is inspiring in retrospect, but Mr. and Mrs. Bradley must have
wondered about the future… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
what is montessori?
Montessori education began in the early 1900s (… |
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materials and some featuring computer-topped desks set in rows.… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
example, at art time, is drawing free and unstructured or is there a… |
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corresponds to an uptick in a child’s responsibilities and adult ex-… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
decisions (Montessori [1912] 1964). They receive feedback on the… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
Choice in Montessori education varies by level (Lillard 2005).
Free… |
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might occur only with peers, in both the guided play and Montessori… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
used markers for drawing were offered a reward for drawing with… |
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how does montessori education differ from Playful learning?
There are… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
up the Red and Blue Rods, the first of the Montessori mathematics… |
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ally, in a Montessori classroom, children cannot choose to engage
in… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
it. For example, a child might realize independently that two sides… |
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to pretend, and they do it even in cultures that restrict it (Carlson,… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
Some child-development specialists maintained that pretend-
ing… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
Regarding children’s love
of and need for fantasy, recent
research… |
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Witherington 2004; Ma and Lillard 2006; Nishida and Lillard 2007).
And… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
Dyer 1975). Montessori was one of several programs compared in
two… |
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(parents had applied to send their children to the school). Chil-
dren… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
important consideration in Montessori research and might explain… |
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Social and Personality Outcomes
The study reported earlier by Lillard… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
summary
Montessori shares many elements of playful learning,… |
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Diamond, Adele, W. Steven Barnett, Jessica Thomas, and
Sarah Munro. 2007… |
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Honomichl, Ryan D., and Zhe Chen. 2012. “The Role of
Guidance in… |
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Lillard • Playful Learning and Montessori Education
Extrinsic Rewards: A Test of the ‘Overjustification’
Hypothesis.”… |
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Experience: A Comparison of Montessori and Traditional
School… |
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Tribute • Mother Francine Cardew
triBute to mother francine cardew
octoBer 4th, 1933—aPril 16th, 2013
Mother Francine… |
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provided refuge to many Montessorians by housing them in her
famous… |
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The NAMTA Journal
classifieds
Arizona
Montessori Teachers Needed,
Advance U
We are looking for creative,
dynamic,… |
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programs. We have openings for
the 2013-2014 school years, Primary… |
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California
We are searching for a Primary
guide to join our team of dedi-
cated professionals! Our… |
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Toddler/Primary & Elemen-
tary Teachers, The Child Unique… |
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lead and assistant teachers in an
innovative new Montessori char-
ter… |
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Consultant serves as a permanent
member of the school board. The
area offers an unparalleled… |
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Montessori at Roseborough in
Mount Dora, Florida is seeking an… |
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middle-income community with
tree-lined streets, an attractive vari-
ety of homes, and small shops.… |
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700 Knox Ct.
Fax: 303-765-5279
Denver, CO 80204
E-mail: tmiami@mac.com… |
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Massachusetts
Adams Montessori School,
Quincy, Massachusetts seeks an
upper elementary guide for the… |
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in fall of 2014, and inherits a com-
pletely supplied classroom.
School… |
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degree, Montessori credentials
(AMI or AMS), and a passion for… |
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