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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 03 An Overview of Adolescence

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Montessori explains that, "The teacher must have the greatest respect for the personality of the adolescent,…

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 13/2 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 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 15/1 06 Class Discussion: A Scenario for The Trivium

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Ms. A: Well, man does some things that don't require a body. Leader: Such as ... Ms. A: We think. And therefore thinking…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 11 Interview: Keeping in Touch with Montessori Roots (An Interview with Mildred Gunawardena)

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cannot produce children because first you have to reach maturity. If you attempt to do something that a mature person does,…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 15 Change and Restructuring

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things go wrong before they go right, even if there has been pre-implementation preparation such as inservice, and even if…

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 06 Literature and Grammar

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my school like the plague one year. Do you know it? There was a youth and a well-beloved youth And he was a squire's son…

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 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 20/2 03 All-Day Montessori: Creating a "Caring Community"

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control: situations in which you can help parents to help themselves and their children, by your intervention. Amber came…

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 06 Education in Relation to the Imagination of the Little Child

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that they were being carried along by stationary chairs. They would say of such children: "They are poor and do this…

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 09 What It Means to Follow the Child

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and grandmother walked into a social services agency in Los Angeles, the social workers there thought her an autistic 6-year-…

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 22/2 03 Flow and Evolution

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every day and some once a week; some say, "I had one experience like that 20 years ago and that's it."…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 02 Beyond Bribes and Threats: How Not to Get Control of the Classroom

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Fourth, punishment gets people to think almost exclusively about their own self-interest. Whenever we talk about"…

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 23/1 13 Emerging Psychological Characteristics of Farm Life

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on the Left. Most of the hypocrisy that I see is on the Left, an affluent, very, very affluent liberalism that will not live…

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 25/3 06 Cosmic Education

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impulse towards work." 1 She had noticed that impulse in the work of that first group of children she was asked to…
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missed that experience. He knows how to read and write, and has an interest in mathematics, science, geography, and history.…

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 26/1 08 The Work of the Child and Cosmic Education

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So here is the call to the educator: Prepare human beings to deal with themselves so that they may be more successful in their…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 05 Homo Loquens: Language in the Context of Cosmic Education

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So, let's go back, then. What is this human being that can have such an effect one upon another? It is not relevant to…

NAMTA Journal 26/2 06 Evolving Language: From Child to Human Species

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present state or condition that we're in, we wouldn't be able to think of positive ways of changing it for the…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 03 The Culture of Civility: The Cohesion of the Social Community

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emerge from this collective sharing. There is no fantasy or real person somewhere out there to tell us whether we are on or…

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 26 The Farm Experience: Its Importance in a Child's Life

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happen. But the reality is that probably a.ll of the schools in this room, or the majority of them, are in urban environments…

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…
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What about paternity leave? How many companies in this country give paternity leave? A family is not just a mother and a baby…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 08 Independence of the Young Child from Birth to Three

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Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 11 Deep Ecology: Educational Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century

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voted to choose a small shrimp called the California freshwater shrimp, which occurred in the creeks surrounding the school in…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 02 A Montessori Life as a Spiritual Journey—Part II

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environment that has been prepared to encourage and allow explora- tion. Very seldom-occasionally, but very seldom-yet…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 04 Redefining Who We Are: The Work of Learning Community Facing Adolescents/Facing Ourselves

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· Charity • Communication • Empathy · Moral decisions • Manual work • Celebration · Belonging · Forgiveness ·…

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 06 A Path for the Exploration of Writing and Reading

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What you have to remember is that when the children start work- ing with the moveable alphabet and can put out the pictures of…

NAMTA Journal 29/2 08 Extensio Animae and Magna

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purpose of education is to make known the 'workings' of reality so that the person can enter into and live it. This…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 09 The Adult Montessori School Community: Finding a Balance

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But no matter how we look at it- TIMES OF TRANSITION ARE NOT TIMES OF BALANCE! Yesterday's speakers all addressed this…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 04 The Schools our Children Deserve: Helping Parents Understand the Rationale for Alternative Education

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What the greatest teachers often do is deliberately complicate kids' thinking, knowing just when to throw a monkey…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 10 Finding Personal and Professional Pathways to a Partnership Approach to Education

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the older woman is the villain, so never listen to an older woman, right? She's bad. The father is a real jerk. Instead…

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 13 The Psycho-Mothor and Sensorial of the Disciplines from Birth to Six

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morning Professor Benedetto Scoppola introduced us to the excit- ing content of the Psico-Aritmetica and Psico-Geo111etrfa,…

NAMTA Journal 34/1 14 Preparing the Home for Optimal Movement of the Child under Three

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These young children not only require, but deserve, lots of time to experiment and to initiate their own work and persist in…

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 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 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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And ten minutes later, I had a CD. We got it printed up. l have to know where this school is. I was new to the city, I didn…
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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…

NAMTA Journal 35/2 10 The Essential Montessori Math through the Years

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principal, I used my principal prerogative and brought the check- erboard home. J said, "Okay, Dorothy, let's…

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…

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