| The Development of Language
page 88
within the child from the first babbling to the formation of
meaningful words? Inside,… |
| Hurried to Read
Browsing through a bookstore at an exclusive and expensive
shopping centre, I stop at the Child Care section… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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nourished and looked after, but regardless, to be trusted
to unfold according to its own… |
| Hurried to Read
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other aspects of the child’s mind (as well as other aspects
of language) grow in a similar fashion.… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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Reading, Writing, and Mathematics:
Explored and Discovered Rather Than Taught
introduction… |
| Reading, Writing, and Mathematics: Explored and Discovered Rather Than Taught
page 96
materials and language. In reality, we… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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language
The three-year-old comes into the Casa dei Bambini with
his or her language… |
| Reading, Writing, and Mathematics: Explored and Discovered Rather Than Taught
page 98
as we observe a deepening of… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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references
Fuller, R. Buckminster. Synergetics. New York: Macmillan, 1975.
Montessori,… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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only enjoy what she described as “the privilege and good
fortune of becoming its assistants… |
| The Casa dei Bambini: Paths to Culture
page 102
within him that light which is called intelligence” (240).
Montessori gives… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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“fish,” “bird” (see Figure 1). This way of dividing the world
provides the most information… |
| The Casa dei Bambini: Paths to Culture
page 104
or history, dependent upon a higher order of mental ability?
A friend of… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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materials of the region. They have enjoyed the flowers and
would take some into their… |
| Science and the Montessori Casa dei Bambini
Some years ago in Toronto a battle raged around the merit or demerit of colouring… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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observation skills
“Train the eye”, said Dr Montessori. What the eye
perceives is directly… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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and soil; how the roots reach down into the earth and the
leaves turn upwards towards the… |
| Science and the Montessori Casa dei Bambini
page 110
can be incarnated so it can become a part of the child’s
developing… |
| Cosmic Education
page 112
Cosmic Education
Maria Montessori found herself interned in India during
the war years. It was,… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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its life—and its own task to perform in a mutual service
relationship. This service is… |
| Cosmic Education
page 114
Truly it is no new idea for it has been the natural plan wherever
there was education in the real… |
| A Science of Peace
page 116
A Science of Peace
introduction
‘To ask anyone to speak on peace would appear quite foreign to… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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Once they have reached this level, the children no longer
act thoughtlessly, but put the… |
| A Science of Peace
page 118
heads and intellectuals needed to learn how to work with
their hands, as ‘men who have hands and… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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are endowed’36 —this is the study, the science of peace
Montessori asks us to create.… |
| Part Three
The Positive Psychology of the Adolescent Becoming Adult
Introduction by David Kahn
1. The Power of Montessori’s… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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adolescent needs relevant work with a clear purpose: real
work such as cooking, cleaning,… |
| The Positive Psychology of the Adolescent Becoming Adult
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over again. By 1946, she is totally sure of herself and… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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The Power of Montessori’s Positive Psychology in an Expanding Universe
This talk was… |
| The Power of Montessori’s Positive Psychology in an Expanding Universe
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Around active points of sensitivity, the… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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“When a child concentrates,” she said, “his character
is changed. It is as though he had… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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The Totality of Montessori
introduction
I have been asked today to begin this conference… |
| The Totality of Montessori
page 128
a handful were so moved, so touched, by the idea that they
acted as missionaries,… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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The physical environment of objects and the
psychological environment of the non-teaching… |
| The Totality of Montessori
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students any more). Standardized tests, teaching to those
tests, using workbooks and… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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conference, we come together from around the world to
Sydney, Australia, to celebrate the… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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Montessori: Now More Than Ever
Like everything in the universe, the human child is created… |
| Montessori: Now More Than Ever
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anxiety, depression and so forth? This is almost a rhetorical
question for everyone… |
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the cure
As a remedy for the many deviations of modern childhood,
Montessori said we must… |
| Montessori: Now More Than Ever
page 136
child’s gift or potential contribution to society. On the right
side of the line are… |
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Montessori, of course, talked of the farm, living and
working on the land. But she had… |
| The Toddler and the Teenager
page 138
The Toddler and the Teenager:
A Comparison of the First and Third Planes of… |
| The Toddler and the Teenager
page 140
another age of “mneme”:
indelible impressions
Recent research coming out of the… |
| Work
page 142
Work
introduction
Work. The word in Montessori is not used in the ordinary sense. Montessori raised the… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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The child does work which is not important for the world but
which is important to him. It… |
| Work
page 144
We can see the strange fact that all living things not only
do the things to benefit themselves they also… |
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references
Campbell, Bernard G. Humankind Emerging. Boston: Little, Brown,
1982.… |
| Indirect Preparation: Old Vision; New Perspectives
page 146
Indirect Preparation: Old Vision; New Perspectives
This talk was… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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related to the original encoding—i.e., what was first
learned. Thus, the Montessori… |
| Indirect Preparation: Old Vision; New Perspectives
page 148
there is an increased likelihood of recall or remembering.
The… |
| Psycho-Grammar
page 150
Psycho-Grammar:
Montessori’s Reflections on Grammar and Psychic Development
This talk was presented… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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necessary means of physical life” (Secret of Childhood 37).
Observe a tiny baby or a very… |
| Psycho-Grammar
page 152
exposed negative, waiting to be slipped into developer fluid”
(cited in Restak 56).
We now know… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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period for acquisition of language, including syntax,
is to give psychological “impressions… |
| Psycho-Grammar
page 154
understood by children until they have mastered logical
language (Discovery of the Child 244).… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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Strategies to Support Concentration
This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled… |
| Strategies to Support Concentration
page 156
Because the child actually teaches himself when he works
with the materials,… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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idealistic and wants very badly to fix the broken parts of
our world, so they are drawn to… |
| Strategies to Support Concentration
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references
Didymus, Johnthomas. “Egyptian Girl, Aisha Mustafa, Invents
New… |
| The Development of Values: A Life Cycle Approach
page 162
harmony and security are goals which belong to adulthood.
Then… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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child learns or incorporates within himself the rules of
conduct his society will accept.… |
| The Development of Values: A Life Cycle Approach
page 164
controlled by rules and the rules are made by others. For
children… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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Today, young people often finish university without having
made a choice of vocation and… |
| Professional Biography of Annette Haines
page 168
Professional Biography of Annette Haines
Education and Honours
2012… |
| AMI Journal 2017 - 2018
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Reflections by Colleagues on the AMI Editorial Board
My first memory of Annette was as a… |