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Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We… |
Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We… |
Sequence 1OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article… |
Sequence 7I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 15Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,… |
Sequence 3scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The… |
Sequence 6the point of view of his or her own discipline. The article by Donald Boles, "Religion in the schools,"… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center… |
Sequence 9The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete… |
Sequence 1RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn for… |
Sequence 3understood better through discussions of bonding, and attachment, and so forth. And so they began to see that here was another… |
Sequence 5Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not… |
Sequence 11&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in… |
Sequence 14this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu… |
Sequence 1HAPP~ REvlSITED by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spmt the last 25 years pursuing an understanding of… |
Sequence 4Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the lase… |
Sequence 5In the beginning our data consisted of interviews and questionnaires. To achieve greater precision we developed with time a… |
Sequence 1APPENDIX II WHAT IS MEET US IN ALEXANDRIA? by John Wyatt and Elizabeth Tardola After school, selected students from inner… |
Sequence 8The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing… |
Sequence 10PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view… |
Sequence 14NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy… |
Sequence 1THE KEEPERS OF ALEXANDRIA: A MlsSJNG LINK FOR MONI'ESSORI IIIsTORY? introduction by David Kahn story by John Wyatt, PhD… |
Sequence 4Ratner: These are aberrations, not nature's norms. Nature, because of the intersection of causes, only works for the most… |
Sequence 2concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 10Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to… |
Sequence 2It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex… |
Sequence 166It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex… |
Sequence 176Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 5To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part… |
Sequence 3misery as it does in prosperity, in oppression as in freedom, in war as in peace, and that he did not really know what life is… |
Sequence 12At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain… |
Sequence 15If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of… |
Sequence 7"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global… |
Sequence 21full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her… |
Sequence 22ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,… |
Sequence 32Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&… |
Sequence 2hance the probability that engagement would occur. She expected that her legacy would include further research into the means… |
Sequence 10self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION AND FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Dr. Csikszentmihalyi presents his theory of "flow" in the… |
Sequence 20devising more and more precise ways of measuring the speed of light. When he was asked in his old age why he had done so, he… |
Sequence 27I feel that concentration when I work on the looms; I am there and that's it. Because if your head is somewhere else and… |
Sequence 1THE GROWTH OF COMPLEXITY: SHAPING MEANINGFUL LIVES by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Reed Larson As an outgrowth of Dr.… |
Sequence 4he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation… |
Sequence 4patterns of religion from personal religious experience to its commu- nal institutionalization. This was one of the… |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 1Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When… |
Sequence 3where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states that "growing up"… |
Sequence 3does not experience interest (e.g., Iran-Nejad & Cecil). If interest en- hances the learning process, it should be of… |
Sequence 13community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE: A FRAMEWORK FOR NEW RESEARCH by Kevin Rathunde Dr. Rathunde' s… |
Sequence 11this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude… |
Sequence 1PREPARING FOR THE WORLD OF WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider, David Shernoff, and Lisa Hoogstra "… |
Sequence 29The other thing we know, and this is primarily from work at the University of Chicago, is that language is irrepressible, that… |
Sequence 44hears and the language he or she is able to produce is a product of genes. These studies absolutely need to be repeated with… |
Sequence 9Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for… |
Sequence 8Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental… |
Sequence 6have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with… |
Sequence 4Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an… |
Sequence 1The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the… |
Sequence 5For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary… |
Sequence 32from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on… |
Sequence 3So the position I am standing in right now is in many ways excruciatingly awkward-not only because the idea of emphasizing… |
Sequence 21Montessori education was soon launched and later carried out by subsequent generations. This leads us to the second question… |
Sequence 2forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 3Csikszentmihalyi listed the conditions of the flow experience as follows (8): 1. Goals Are Clear: One knows at every moment… |
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 14Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to… |
Sequence 70Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to… |
Sequence 4ables him to grow, teaches him to speak, and thus perfects him" (The Secret of Childhood 36). It was Betty… |
Sequence 2NATURE EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION by Kevin Rathunde Kevin Rathunde turns his research lens to the task of finding out the… |
Sequence 2NATURE AND EMBODIED EDUCATION: A KEY ROLE FOR MONTESSORI RESEARCH by Kevin Rathunde INTRODUCTION: WHY Is NATURE IMPORTANT… |
Sequence 1A BRIEF THEORETICAL NoTE AND ExEMPLA DRAWINGS TOWARD A MONTESSORI ARCHITECTURE by John Wyatt John Wyatt presents this… |
Sequence 2THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE: HELPING PARENTS UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE FOR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION by Alfie Kohn A/fie… |
Sequence 7• Illinois' Chicago Child-Parent Centers served 1,500 children. Participants have been followed to age twenty. How did… |
Sequence 8By the early 1900s, Napier's bones had evolved into a tool called the Genaille-Lucas Rulers, which allows you to do the… |
Sequence 6In this book we shall consider the different stages of human de- velopment and try to understand their significance with the… |
Sequence 10Vision and the Critical Period 1n the visual. cortex, postnatal brain development has been quan- tified by Peter Hutten… |
Sequence 68. Prepare yourself for the birthi11g of your child. You may want to consider taking a birthing class and think about your… |
Sequence 13cent Springs). Schools often provide a list of local resources and referrals for evaluation. 10. Sometimes a student can be… |
Sequence 1HELPING MONTESSORI EDUCATORS REACH ALL KINDS OF MINDS by Mary Jo Dunnington Schools Attuned is one of a suite of… |
Sequence 1INCLUSION: A PREPARATION FOR LIFE by Pam Shanks Rai11tree Montessori Sc1too/ is a model that deserves front and center… |
Sequence 17Linda Davis began her Montessori work in 1971. She has an AMI Elementary diploma a11d has worked with children from ages three… |
Sequence 3ln our classical elementary curriculum, there is a lot of biology, but of course, very Ii ttle of modern biology. Modern… |
Sequence 11on gaining self-knowledge, and literature is a great tool for self- discovery. An excerpt from Sherwood Anderson's… |
Sequence 43Rota, Gian-Carlo, & Fabrizio Palombi. /11discrete Thoughts. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2008. Steen, Lynn Arthur… |
Sequence 7knowledge and intelligence. At risk of oversimplification, our ancestors shared stories around the fire. Fire was a… |
Sequence 5to produce our own towers with nothing more than rulers, pencils, scissors, construction paper, some sguares of cardboard (for… |
Sequence 22Emphasizing what I saw that was good, I was able to give talks to these teachers, but after all these years of internal… |
Sequence 1ADOLESCENTS' QUALITY OF ATTENTION AND AFFECT AFTER MORNING NATURE w ALKS: FINDINGS FROM A STUDY OF NATURE AND EDUCATION… |
Sequence 5We Teach Science to Sow the Seeds of Culture We talk a lot about sowing the seeds; planting seeds we may never see germinate… |
Sequence 6We need to 111ake it clear to tlte children that there is so 111uclt left to discover. In this world of immediate information… |
Sequence 26Pink writes: Ultimately, [intrinsically motivated] behavior depends on three nutrients: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. [This… |
Sequence 9The sixth characteristic of a Montessori lesson is that it is de- signed to elicit activity from the child. In every instance… |
Sequence 5Historical preparation allows for great latitude, the sine qua non of which is a broad concept of the basic outline of the… |
Sequence 14Romans, and if we are, how? Or, how are we the same? This will be our topic for discussion one night. Our work will also at… |
Sequence 27Growth in our adolescent program is strong, and as it continues, we expect that within the next year or two, we will have to… |