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Sequence 144Week Three: July 13 to July 17, 1992 THE LESSONS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE TRANSCENDENT SELF:… |
Sequence 178the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 55of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during… |
Sequence 131implementation of the Montessori model but will provide a wealth of more general information about children's school… |
Sequence 50Goody, J. (1977). The domestica1ion of the savage mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goody, J. ( I 987). The… |
Sequence 51Levi-Strauss, C. (1966). The savage mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Levi-Strauss, C. ( 1969). The raw and the… |
Sequence 59... he showed me a picture of the night sky taken with the big telescope. There were tens of thousands of stars and… |
Sequence 31Hopkins, W.G. and Brown, M.C. 0984). Development of Nerve Cells and their Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity… |
Sequence 118have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 48An exceptional example of vertical history was the Columbus Quincentennary Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art nearly two… |
Sequence 62Alexander the Great, another Greek, was also a great traveller, founding Alexandria in Egypt, and many other towns named… |
Sequence 65People came from the ends of the earth to live in Alexandria. Everyone entered through the Gate of the Sun and left through… |
Sequence 106the teachers do not already know tJ1e answer. Even when tJ1e form of the question seems to invite a variety of answers, tJ1ere… |
Sequence 130unafraid to take bold initiatives with new partners so that all of America's children would be part of the success story… |
Sequence 143and writing. Teachers have written about their experiences, anecdotaJly and informally, through diaries, logs, and narratives… |
Sequence 160unpaid, or at best low paid, productive activities are systematically exploited. As the United Nations State of the World… |
Sequence 175proximity to Rice University, a world renowned Medical Center, and a thriv- ing, vibrant cultural artS community. The School… |
Sequence 60were in a Catholic country, so it can be ascribed to the Catholic religion. But it happens in India, it happens in Africa, it… |
Sequence 68fail to instill in developing minds the fundamental skills of attention and reasoning. Increasing numbers of children today… |
Sequence 66The thought of so condemning greed and ambition seems alien for a society apparently rooted in greed and ambition, although… |
Sequence 101another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 84REFERENCES Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Pan- theon Books. Coles, R. (1990). The spiritual life of… |
Sequence 121Egan, K. (1987). Literacy and the oral foundations of educa- tion. Harvard Educational Review, 57, 445-472. Egan, K. (1989).… |
Sequence 42similarly ineffective because it gets nowhere near where the trouble is. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Many of us… |
Sequence 131the same elements that you see in Montessori and Sylvia Ashton Warner. For example, in all of these approaches is a deep… |
Sequence 134requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 142fixed in your mind. What is your place in the cosmos? What is the child's place in the cosmos? What is our purpose on the… |
Sequence 256to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 259own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 9which evolves on its own terms. Like the child, as human culture grows with the passage of time, it becomes more conscious of… |
Sequence 20PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE: A MONTESSORI GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer, whose sense of mission and single… |
Sequence 22The simplicity of his early years and his life with Dr. Montessori gave him a rare quality: the ability to mix and be"… |
Sequence 40THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURES: THE MONTESSORI CONTRIBUTION by Winfried Bohm translated by Devan Barker In this masterful… |
Sequence 66MONTESSORI IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CHALLENGE, THE DREAM, AND THE PROMISE by Orcillia Oppenheimer The African challenge is… |
Sequence 67South Africa is the southern tip of the African continent. A country of contrasts-from the trees of the dinosaurs to the… |
Sequence 113TURMOIL Reality of Turmoil The argument whether the Sturm und Orang (storm and stress) of the teenage years is a natural and… |
Sequence 203A further argument for emphasizing local environmental research by children is that genuine ecological understanding involves… |
Sequence 211Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992. Piaget,J. TheGtild… |
Sequence 18love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 52Our mother, 1 five years in America and fresh to the ways of Ameri- can Catholicism, was not daunted by being a woman. A lay… |
Sequence 166When they are in high school, are former Montessori students reaching out to others? Are they volunteer tutors? Are they… |
Sequence 111in the year 1000, we find a series of settlements around the planet with a smaller number of hunter-gatherer bands that are… |
Sequence 49The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
Sequence 63Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 137The child needs to continue experiencing the living environment- the wilds, plants, animals, rocks, various kinds of terrain-… |
Sequence 235Lepper, M.R. "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Chil- dren: Detrimental Effects of Superfluous Social Con- trols… |
Sequence 187Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 206Becker, Wesley C. "Consequences of Different Kinds of Parental Discipline." Review of Child Development Re… |
Sequence 208Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Landes, William M., & Richard… |
Sequence 210Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn. "Conclusions: Lessons from the Past and a Look to the Future." Altruism and Aggression… |
Sequence 64modate this massive synapse formation, neurons must vastly expand their dendritic surfaces. As much as eighty-three percent… |
Sequence 92then be false to any man." Shakespeare, that great player with words- and what a testimony that is to the spirit and… |
Sequence 353start to see that Mexico developed in a way that did not completely embrace this Western paradigm. I can tell you that… |
Sequence 355to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 536Kaplan, M., & E. Singer. "Dogmatism and Sensory Alien- ation: An Empirical Investigation." Journal… |
Sequence 150the Children's House, let them first know a friendly world, which they can love, admire, and feel at one with. Where they… |
Sequence 15A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 2 by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer' s caution that the best-laid plans do not… |
Sequence 94In all organisms, the major task is to produce more calories than what you consume and be able to pass on your genes to the… |
Sequence 128only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 152And in a lecture given at Cambridge, Montessori says that "Cul- ture becomes identifiable with the construction of… |
Sequence 217the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 38Yet I come to London, and every blessed child speaks good English. Who taught them? Where were the professors, the books, the… |
Sequence 76A PATH FOR THE EXPLORATION OF WRITING AND READING by Muriel Dwyer Connecting the Montessori idea of exploration and… |
Sequence 86What you have to remember is that when the children start work- ing with the moveable alphabet and can put out the pictures of… |
Sequence 89have time for questions. But you'll find all the stages in the booklet. Still, the last stage is not to be forgotten-… |
Sequence 12It is not surprising that Ms. Dwyer renamed her reading classic, originally entitled A Reading Scheme for English (assembled… |
Sequence 13Dwyer, Muriel. "Opening of the 52nd Montessori Interna- tional Course in Child Development." Montessori… |
Sequence 45REFERENCES Brazelton, T. Berry, & Stanley I. Greenspan. The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have… |
Sequence 26Action. Ed. K.H. Pribram. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1969. Gesell, Arnold, Frances L. Ilg, Janet L. Rodell, et al.… |
Sequence 151work of the spiritual sphere in our world through the eyes of the missionary. This is the true story of a missionary in… |
Sequence 93the cover of two densely vegetated areas on the margins of the playground. When they were not nestled beneath birches,… |
Sequence 137We tell many stories of the great and famous inventions and discoverers of history from Archimedes to the present, and other… |
Sequence 138The piece of metal that holds the eraser is caUed the ferrule and is made of brass (a combination of zinc and copper). Zinc is… |
Sequence 213* * * So if this is part of the human predicament-the idea that we are given this urge to continually refine, to make things… |
Sequence 80the structure itself should function for contemporary children as an essential part of the prepared Montessori environment.… |
Sequence 215Foreign Language Program." Foreign Lnngunge A1111nls 25 (1992): 129-136. Shrum,J.L., & E.W. Glisan. Teacher… |
Sequence 106South Africa: Grassroots Networks South Africa: Montessori in the Context of Social Reform Jenco School, o villoge-operoted,… |
Sequence 108Montessori in Africa, continued Helping one another, Uma Lourdes School, Soweto (near Johonnesburg), I 998 Mosizokhe… |
Sequence 110Children's House co/or toblet work at Telperion Farm School, 1998 Montessori in Africa, continued Inter }oho C/… |
Sequence 150Montessori Farm Programs in Africa, Australia, and Mexico Shepherding pygmy goats, Telperion Farm School. serving ages 3-18… |
Sequence 88Now this didn't all happen in one year. This project became ongoing in this class. Each year the children new to the… |
Sequence 92Work that would be impossible for one alone becomes feasible as a group enterprise; the discoveries and inventions of a few… |
Sequence 186In reality, a human being does not actually become what it exam- ines, but it seems it can edge workably close. One obviously… |
Sequence 317"What Is a Social Entrepreneur?" Ashoka. July 29, 2005 <http://ashoka.org/social_entrepreneur>… |
Sequence 266Nationalist and Independence Movements A. Origins of independence movements in Africa and Asia; B. Methods of achieving… |
Sequence 171REFERENCES Barrack, A. C." A Journey of Love: The Influence of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology on Parent-Child… |
Sequence 54Horner, Jack. "The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dys- lexia." Perspccti,•es 011 Ln11g11nge n11d Literacy… |
Sequence 106Language, what an amazing human characteristic this is! And as we think about language, there are many questions that might… |
Sequence 148of study. As I travel through, I'll give you some hints about how we've done it with children. When r asked John… |
Sequence 159is supposed to be in Coptic and Latin. In the text that the children read, the Coptic is translated into English. For this… |
Sequence 216native peoples, and his leadership helped his state to become a leader in the struggle for American values, for peace,… |
Sequence 30systems that exist in the world today. "The basic structures for our behavior are innate. The specific details of how… |
Sequence 13say that we have lived in peace and we have had a Lot of conflict. Peace is the capacity to face the conflicts, overcome the… |
Sequence 22Montessori School. Together we ran four full lnternational courses. Then the political situation changed and many of those… |
Sequence 26assistance in developing a funding submission and, with the help of other international colleagues, a proposal was developed… |
Sequence 32REFERENCES By-laws of the Association Montessori lnternalio,rnle. Am- sterdam: AMI. AMI Strategic P/a,1 2008-2012. Amsterdam… |
Sequence 77A Story of Morlem-Dny No111nds: The Mb11ti In the northeastern corner of a Central African country called the Democratic… |
Sequence 79Because of their nomadic way of life, the Saa mi do not have permanent houses. They use easy-to-move tents, which are… |
Sequence 99and there are 192 countries that are members of the United Nations (UN). But that's not the end of the issue. There are… |
Sequence 123participation in actions meant to bring social justice to people in the classroom, in the community, all over the world. We… |