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Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 02 The Farm Experience: Its Importance in a Child's Life

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age children. In a sense this has been our equivalent of the wartime experience of the British children and their teachers. We…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 01 Of Roots and Wings

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OF ROOTS AND WINGS by David Kahn A philosophical outlook on the parent's role in Montessm-i, educa- tion, this article…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 03 Elementary Montessori and Parent Education

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I strongly urge Montessori directors and directresses to collect com- ments by their students on Montessori education. I began…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 07 When the Kids Fight, How to Intervene Helpfully

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weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 01 The Botanical Cards

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THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 07 Cosmic Education and the Physical Sciences

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Footnotes 'Maria Montessori (1948) To Educate the Human Potential 5th Edition 1973, Kalakshetra Publica- tions Press,…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 09 Darwinism Defined: The Difference between Fact and Theory

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nineteenth-century reaction; and, while I'm not a conventional believer, I don't consider myself irreligious.…
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lower jaw decrease in size. We've even found a transitional form with an elegant solution to the problem of remaking jaw…
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ape-like primates, waddling reptiles, jawless fishes, worm-like inverte- brates, and other creatures deemed even lower or more…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 10 Exploring with the Nine to Twelve Child

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scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 12 Interview: Introducing Luciano Mazzetti

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INTRODUCING LUCIANO MAZZETTI Luciano Mazzetti Dr. uuciano Mazzetti is the president of the International Montes- sori Center…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 01 Montessori Education: Interactive Idea for Human Understanding

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The Montessori idea is unfinished by design. Some complain that the curriculum presented in Montessori training is incomplete…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 04 Response to Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other (Terranova)

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RESPONSE TO GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Charles Torranova I want to thank David Kahn for…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 14 Cultivating a Literacy of Thoughtfulness

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kindergarten through grade 2, intermediate schools, middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools. Time, coo, is…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 18 Multi-Cultural Perspectives and School Reform

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the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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Although externally her life was affected by political forces, within she remained detached as this statement indicates: Not…
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&location must be considered as most imponant; for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in…
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this principle in this way will surely make a difference in our world. In The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 'Abdu…

NAMTA Journal 17/3 28 The Children's Garden

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The adolescents may choose to design the garden for community ser- vice: to beautify the city; to provide flowers to nursing…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 10 Old Truths, New Children

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History cannot be written on the basis of official decisions and documents alone. If our descendants are to understand fully…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 07 A World Core Curriculum

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION SAMPLER 7bese pragmattc descriptions of adolescent program components which provide an operational view…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 13 Discipline

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NAMTANEWs The Montessori Academy Is Full A new kind of summer program intended to encourage depth, The Montessori Academy…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 11 Scientific Pedagogy Revisited

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A Montessori teacher who is willing to learn and change based upon his or her own ob!3etvations and careful record keeping…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 03 Nurturing the Creative Personality

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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 04 Montessori as an Aid to Life

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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 14 In Memoriam: Nancy McCormick Rambusch 1927-1994

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It is complex-not simply taught, but demanding continuous study and investigation of all aspects of life. It is complex…
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Teachers have to know strategies that concern their own move- ments. "The teacher should study her own movements, to…
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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 03 A Day with Dr. Maria Montessori and Her Youthful Charges Is an Eye-Opener for the Average Parent

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To the Montessori "bleachers" the serving of the luncheon of milk and crackers is the most interesting part…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 08 Commitment to Peace

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misery 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…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 04 The Verbal/Linguistic and Visual/Spatial Intelligences

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At birth-before words, language, abstract reasoning, cognitive patterning, and conceptual thinking-were images. The brain…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 08 Maintaining the Montessori Metaphor: What Every Child Wants and Needs

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If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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"potentialities which determine his development"; "there exists within this inert being a global…
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full control of all one's energies, which is the result of the maturation that has been reached. The Four Planes In her…
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ergies that are repressed lead to inferiority complexes, the weakening of personality, lack of responsibility, listlessness,…
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Mon te.:;sori has drawn in the middle of her chart, between the drawing above and that below, between "nature&…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 05 Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 14 Embracing Learning Diversity in the Montessori School

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Meeting Individual Needs in the Elementary Prepared Environment Uses of the Materials Another way we avoid labeling children…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 04 Motivation: The Foundation of Successful Learning

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he thinks he can go anywhere, and the urge to explore and discover his world has to be limited rather than pushed. Motivation…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 01 Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom, A Life's Journey of Educational Ideas

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Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 04 The Impact of India

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where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 07 Emerging Adolescence: Finding One's Place in the Cosmos

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becomes the steward of rooted plants in the garden. Here the task is more defined. The light needed is probably more grounded…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 02 The Human Tendencies

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THE HUMAN TENDENCIES by Margaret E. Stephenson At Dr. Montessori's last public lecture she disclaimed the atten- tion…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 08 Notes on the Montessori Adolescent

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Q:To what degree can you take the philosophical realizations of Cosmic Education that take place in the second plane (the…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 02 Montessori Education and Optimal Experience: A Framework for the New Research

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this idea on its head, she once commented at a gathering to honor her, "The highest honor and the deepest gratitude…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 08 Designing for the Needs of Adolescents: An Interview with John McNamara

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Afterward: Extending beyond the six weeks was continued work on refining their mission statements in preparation for…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 11 Reflections from the Farm

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Everything about the children ment clearly urges middle schools to has a history, and if the stu- transform the fundamental…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 18 Some Characteristics of a Montessori Erdkinder Compromise

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have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 19 The Kibbutz, Boy’s Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder

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Joosten: 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…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 21 Montessori High School

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The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 22 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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For all that, I thought it must be possible to apply certain funda- mental principles of the Montessori method to secondary…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 23 A Historical Look at Montessori's Erdkinder

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from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 27 The Farm in Montessori Adolescent, History: The First Year

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• Children too need to feel that what they do is necessary, important and appreciated ... that feeling came across strongly…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 01 Child Development Under Three: The Foundations of the Personality, the Family, and the Montessori Method

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forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 04 Infant Attachment and Separation: The Foundations for Social/Emotional Growth

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find another way of nurturing. Nursing is not the only way to nurture a child. So, we do this gradual process. When we…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 11 Prenatal Influences on the Brain

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almost certainly incapable of harming the fetus. Microwave ovens are not dangerous. A lot of people were worried about…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 07 Journeying with Children Toward God

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Where do such deep responses come from in children? What triggers them? What do they tell us about the religious nature of…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 10 Bonding with the Natural World: The Roots of Environmental Awareness

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A. I think we' re only beginning to reach that. Stephen Kaplan and Rachel Kaplan, at the University of Michigan, have led…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 06 True Work: Discovering the Path to Self-Perfection through the Prepared Environment

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pa per letters, and the words for the sensorial attributes. In spite of this, I started noticing how the children were…
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As a daily procedure in one Casa, the children line up to walk to the park. The guide quietly counts to see that all the…

NAMTA Journal 28/3 05 Commentary on Two Manuscripts by Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Neither does it surprise us to learn that Montessori students spend less time in passive listening and watching media, and…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 04 Finding the Spiritual Thread in Montessori Work

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ables him to grow, teaches him to speak, and thus perfects him" (The Secret of Childhood 36). It was Betty…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 13 Making an Ecological Contribution: Entrepreneurial Good Work

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men. They had sixteen or seventeen vice presidents, all world-class or ex-world-class athletes. None of them knew anything…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 03 The Anatomy of Successfully Intelligent People

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learning. Assessment also should involve analytical, creative, and practical, as well as memory components. You make the…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 03 Elements of Erdkinder at the Farm School

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adolescent, so it naturally has to be one of the fundamental elements of an adolescent program. The second element Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 28 History – Human Solidarity: Man Whither Bound

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interest in, what is extraordinary, what is magnificent; and they have a natural tendency to hero worship. All of this can be…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 02 Why It Is Important to Know the Child

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In this book we shall consider the different stages of human de- velopment and try to understand their significance with the…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 15 Child Development Tips for Prenatal to Three: Insights and Suggestions from Montessori Teachers

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8. Prepare yourself for the birthi11g of your child. You may want to consider taking a birthing class and think about your…

NAMTA Journal 34/2 10 2009 NAMTA Baseline Special Education Survey

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cent Springs). Schools often provide a list of local resources and referrals for evaluation. 10. Sometimes a student can be…

NAMTA Journal 34/2 13 Helping Montessori Educators Reach All Kinds of Minds

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HELPING MONTESSORI EDUCATORS REACH ALL KINDS OF MINDS by Mary Jo Dunnington Schools Attuned is one of a suite of…

NAMTA Journal 34/2 15 Inclusion: A Preparation for Life

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INCLUSION: A PREPARATION FOR LIFE by Pam Shanks Rai11tree Montessori Sc1too/ is a model that deserves front and center…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 04 Montessori's Role in Twenty-First-Century Educational Reform

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John Dewey, the American philosopher, has a very interesting idea. He says, if you want to know what is going on, one way to…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 05 Teacher-Student Relationships for the Montessori Continuum

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Linda Davis began her Montessori work in 1971. She has an AMI Elementary diploma a11d has worked with children from ages three…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 08 Montessori Approaches to the Classics for Elementary Study: The Keepers of Alexandria

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Latin, the significance of which was prominent when the culture was a literary culture, is not as essential today. [ts…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 12 Sowing the Seeds of the Sciences: Elementary and Adolescent Continuity

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ln our classical elementary curriculum, there is a lot of biology, but of course, very Ii ttle of modern biology. Modern…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 14 The New Adolescent Ages 12-15 and 15-18: Optimal Roadmaps for Disciplines-Based Studies

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on gaining self-knowledge, and literature is a great tool for self- discovery. An excerpt from Sherwood Anderson's…
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Rota, Gian-Carlo, & Fabrizio Palombi. /11discrete Thoughts. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2008. Steen, Lynn Arthur…

NAMTA Journal 35/2 05 Technology and the Adolescent: Finding the True Balance in the Prepared Environment

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knowledge and intelligence. At risk of oversimplification, our ancestors shared stories around the fire. Fire was a…
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It is a big thing. It has Jed us as far as this general statement: Colin: Music is part of life and so should be part of our…
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By the way, one of our former students, now a college freshman, says that dealing with the crops and the chickens in our…

NAMTA Journal 35/2 12 A Mathematician Explores the Gap Between Stories and Statistics, Logic, and Language

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members of a couple signal their intentions to purchase items and their attitudes toward money would fill a small book. The…

NAMTA Journal 35/2 14 The Integrated Science and Mathematics of Dr. Claude Claremont, Disciple and Colleague of Maria Montessori

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to produce our own towers with nothing more than rulers, pencils, scissors, construction paper, some sguares of cardboard (for…

NAMTA Journal 35/3 09 Montessori Internationalism and Peace

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Emphasizing what I saw that was good, I was able to give talks to these teachers, but after all these years of internal…

NAMTA Journal 36/1 05 How Science and History Lead to Community Service

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We need to 111ake it clear to tlte children that there is so 111uclt left to discover. In this world of immediate information…

NAMTA Journal 36/1 08 Structure and Spontaneous Learning

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Pink writes: Ultimately, [intrinsically motivated] behavior depends on three nutrients: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. [This…

NAMTA Journal 36/1 14 Initiation to the Knowledge that Is the Pride of Our Civilization

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Historical preparation allows for great latitude, the sine qua non of which is a broad concept of the basic outline of the…
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Romans, 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…
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Growth in our adolescent program is strong, and as it continues, we expect that within the next year or two, we will have to…

NAMTA Journal 36/3 14 The Study of the Earth and Living Nature

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THE STUDY OF THE EARTH AND LIVING NATURE by Jacqui Miller Apart from 1/lerely nlludi11g to tlte biologicnl sciences, Jacqui…

NAMTA Journal 36/3 16 Practical Life at San Lorenzo: Implications for Erdkinder

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processes of observation, comparison, reasoning, knowledge, and socialization, without overlooking emotional development. In…

NAMTA Journal 37/1 05 Revolutions in Curriculum: Tenth Grade as a Turning Point and a Challenge at Montessori High School

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MONTESSORl'S CONCEPTION OF EDUCATION FOR ADOLESCENCE The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a…
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In addition, closer partnership with local middle schools offers a path to develop an aspect of the high school that is at…
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Montessori's path for a science of peace is clear and radical and so optimistic that the junior class is doubtful it can…

NAMTA Journal 37/2 05 A Person of His Time and Place: Montessori Perspectives on a Geography and History

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child as the agent of change. In The Discovery of the Child (67), Montes- sori writes of a British family who lived in India…
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humanity. It is this latter part, culture, that which represents the study to be carried out in the schools, the universal…

NAMTA Journal 37/2 09 An Adventure: the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

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sis of the Good Shepherd, that propelling force, as we said, which has carried forward almost a half-century of catechesis, is…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 14 Deepening Cosmic Education

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143 Leonard • Deepening Cosmic Education brought to their newly settled areas of the world. Elementary children love this…

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