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Sequence 15Erikson, E. Identity. Youth and Crisis. (New York: Norton Press, 1968). Erikson, E. The Problem of Ego Identity, Journal of… |
Sequence 2This interdisciplinary approach to the study of the humanities makes full use of the characteristics of young adolescents to… |
Sequence 5matter at that, whatever direction our imagination may take, it shall discover no empty place ... our imagination seems to be… |
Sequence 22c) S11111u 2, Chap. :J. Cunents and Countel' Curl'ents in Medical Sdencc. Rep1·intecl in Cltild mul F11111i/!f. 1:~:… |
Sequence 3sudden seriousness when those in thrall to the Wicked Witch of the West are freed from bondage. While in The Final Alice, a… |
Sequence 10ape-like primates, waddling reptiles, jawless fishes, worm-like inverte- brates, and other creatures deemed even lower or more… |
Sequence 7Their own writing will be a reflection of that extensive reading. They write what I call, with apologies to Bach, "… |
Sequence 4His work brings to life the idea of inquiry as dialogue-the shared and cooperative pursuit of truth among people of knowledge… |
Sequence 6students were taught confusions. At times, assignments were framed so that "culture" was a sort of umbrella… |
Sequence 7in the l:,ook changed. How did circumstances lead them to alter their beliefs, attitudes, or behavior? Lee wrote a paper… |
Sequence 5The great works of the human mind in the western intellectual tradi- tion fulfill this requirement in a preeminent way. The… |
Sequence 2learn is not enough; stimulation is not teaching. Since whatever can be learned by instruction must necessarily have been… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 12all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 2present, the oriental peoples were tied to the past and it was therefore called "education by recapitulation.&… |
Sequence 3tell the young because anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and… |
Sequence 4Plato's educational proposals also arouse distrust because to preserve the unity of the State, he destroys the family as… |
Sequence 5given to childhood. Quintilian divides the training of an orator into three stages: (a) the early stage of home education up… |
Sequence 6women, though from his saying that both the parents should be cultured we may draw the conclusion that girls also were to be… |
Sequence 5methods of such ingenuity to their offspring. Thinking began in earnest with the teaching of chinking. As a result, our… |
Sequence 8the strong-willed person fighting his own desires. BU. You're beginning to sound like your old teacher, Plato.24 \\i•… |
Sequence 1116 William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator I.I Oanuary I, 1831), 4. 17 N.E. 11.6, 1106b36. 18 N.E. 11.6, 1107a6; cf. III.4, J l… |
Sequence 20viduals and social organizations to deal with complexity and change in ways which are both adaptive and creative. The emerging… |
Sequence 7Asians, Egyptians, Indians, Europeans, Syrians, Armenians, and Arabs. The students encounter Alexandrian mathematics, physics… |
Sequence 9These metrically arranged units of sound, then, accumulated line by line in the Homeric poems to repeat the heroic story. The… |
Sequence 10poetic culture that preceded them. In particular, they highlight Plato's reasons for wishing to exclude poets from his… |
Sequence 35its implications for cross-cultural studies. In S. Modgil & C. Modgil (Eds.), .lean Piaget: Consensus and controversy… |
Sequence 36Goody, J. (1977). The domestica1ion of the savage mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goody, J. ( I 987). The… |
Sequence 9Mover, itself unmoved. This Mover he called God. Aristotle's God was not the sort of being one would be inclined to… |
Sequence 7is commonplace to think of moving from teaching to administration as a promo- tion! Benjamin Franklin knew better, as he… |
Sequence 15The group read and reread books and essays already assigned to their students, such as Ibsen 's An Enemy of the People… |
Sequence 12This will always stick in my mind: two men, talking about two black, disabled soldiers who had not been shot by the enemy but… |
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Sequence 5together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 20References Egan, K. (1986). Teaching as story telling: An alternative ap- proach to teaching and curriculum in the elementary… |
Sequence 17Miller, J. B. 0 976). Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon. Montagu, A. (1986, August 7). Qtd. in Woodstock Times… |
Sequence 4of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every… |
Sequence 19Hellbrugge, T. 0979, Spring). Early social development and proficiency in later life. Tbe NAMTA Q11arter(y, 4<.2), 6-14… |
Sequence 13analysis of sounds relative to speech is essentially auditory-visual-tactile- kinesthetic exercises connected with the… |
Sequence 7gentlemanlike conduct in the late twentieth century is radically differ- ent from what it was in the eighteenth. Let us look… |
Sequence 19Bremer, J. (1985, Fall). Education as peace. The NAMTA Quar- terly, 11(1), 21-40. Capra, F. (1993). The turning of the tide.… |
Sequence 21Bremer, J. (1985, Fall). Education as peace. The NAMTA Quar- terly, 11(1), 21-40. Capra, F. (1993). The turning of the tide.… |
Sequence 53gentlemanlike conduct in the late twentieth century is radically differ- ent from what it was in the eighteenth. Let us look… |
Sequence 10Froebe}, F. (1887). The education of man (Trans. W.M. Hailman). New York: Appleton. (Original work published 1886) Hart, R… |
Sequence 15Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam Books. Montessori, M. (1994). The absorbent mind. Oxford: Clio… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 14bility. What is it? We do not know, but we must hasten to find out. It must be the child who reveals to us what happens during… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 17with friends, social situations, or reading for pleasure. Worry and anxiety happen a lot in school; they happen a lot on the… |
Sequence 4adult and the children, as these expressions of the spirit pour out of their daily experiences of togetherness-their oneness… |
Sequence 6of the intellect for its own sake. The reasoning mind has a much grander task: The work of humanity that always loves more,… |
Sequence 11We will come to realize that each child has artistic potential and each child will relish the deep satisfaction derived from… |
Sequence 30is because children will enjoy and live more fully and fulfill their potentials. But also because they are more likely to… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 13for the poor as well. Pericles reminded the Athenians, "We have no objection against the poor as long as they're… |
Sequence 18know it today will be destroyed or saved because of the West- maybe destroyed in the rain forest and maybe destroyed in… |
Sequence 5var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 9that skepticism to everything-like Bill Clinton's talk. Everybody thought it was a wonderful talk, but it was a God-… |
Sequence 10studied, the experience of working with the earth and connecting it to curriculum only enhanced the learning. Despite the… |
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 16It is important for us not to change the vision of Dr. Montessori by creating a reductive attitude to what we do, by focusing… |
Sequence 31REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:… |
Sequence 24Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik… |
Sequence 3Howard Gardner's work and the present state of his Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which debunks traditional notions of… |
Sequence 4What does the Meno tell us? The Meno tells us about Socrates' visit to his friend Menon. On this visit, he has a… |
Sequence 5Descartes' exclamation •1 think therefore I am• leaves little space in the classroom for the physical world or the… |
Sequence 18two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
Sequence 19Hakim, Joy. "Reading, Writing, and ... History." History Mat- ters! (May 1996): 19 pars. 1 Dec. 1998 <… |
Sequence 10birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is characterized by this: with… |
Sequence 6The current spiritual renaissance, even outside traditional reli- gious institutions, shows the necessity and the desire of… |
Sequence 22Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 14jZr JIJ II e r ~ J ~ ~ J =i Hu - mu - hu - mu - nu - cu - nu - cu - a - pu - a. This, in turn, attracted the attention of… |
Sequence 10Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. S. J. Costelloe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. Montessori,… |
Sequence 11She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 21• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 13when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 14when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 78• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 228She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 33Montessori, Maria. "Child's Instinct to Work [Lecture, London, 1939]." AMI Communications (1973, #4): 6… |
Sequence 10understanding, the power, the aesthetic grandeur, and the emotional fulfillment needed to heal the damage that has already… |
Sequence 8not be valid) that the universe may not be as old as some of the stars in our galaxy. But on bal- ance the theory of… |
Sequence 9sometimes the universe actually embodies a theorist's dreams. When this happens, it can have the force of a religious… |
Sequence 12If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 27brain and spinal cord of mammals a very, very long time ago, and had endowed the monkey's limbs with assured, acrobatic… |
Sequence 28Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 29purpose. That means precisely that history and its purpose cannot make sense to a community without a purpose. If there is no… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 3We of the past century have been educated in a particular and odd sort of way. We divided the whole of reality and the… |
Sequence 4Naturally, one must ask what originally was the impulse that moved Plato to make such a happy distinction. As a human being… |
Sequence 30Graves, Donald. "Making Meaning Clear: The Logic of Revision." Journal of Basic Writing (1981, Fall/Winter… |
Sequence 10It takes a major shift in our cultural sensibilities to understand why Darcy isso deeply affected by her remark. The notion of… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 4just been watching a movie. As I exited, I noticed that many trucks were parked around the perimeter of the camp. Men started… |
Sequence 13• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 3WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 18and Holland, where the interest was greatest, Montessori told her followers that she wasn't yet ready to discuss this… |
Sequence 3really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire… |
Sequence 5Secondary Literature Entries marked with an askerisk (•) are reprinted in this issue of The NAMT A Journal. Bodi, John.&… |