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Sequence 60The Montessorian, in reading Socrates' Theaet,et:us, may begin to describe the Montessori vision with new vocabulary and… |
Sequence 83society. "Rituals are considered to represent only a negative dead- weight from the past." Margaret Mead… |
Sequence 22passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it." She was deceived by very little; she was… |
Sequence 72References Banta, T.J. Tests for the evaluation of early childhood education: The Cincinnati Autonomy Test Battery (CATB). In… |
Sequence 47behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 523. The student demonstrates automatic execution of the skill. E.g: Can you tell me how "0 Come Little Children&… |
Sequence 60can see it - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia." As she named the continents her hand… |
Sequence 101mth regard w hominid evolution, apparently tlie sequential lineage of hominids i.s cmnpletely wrong; f<YUr very… |
Sequence 14director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
Sequence 178the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 49conuibuted to her being somewhat ostracized by the scientific and educational establishment and her being labeled as "… |
Sequence 55of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during… |
Sequence 61promptings of the moral self, that erects obstacles and barriers in the way of the development of intelligence, that condemns… |
Sequence 7EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
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 99kitchen. Adding section by section, piece by piece, they discovered the style pattern and saw that the repeats in Malory are… |
Sequence 118have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 128by the husband. This cycle is found among the Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada as well as among the… |
Sequence 18logical characteristics and each needs a prepared adult to help the individual help himself. The four planes of development… |
Sequence 19product of a Casa dei Bambini and a Montessori elementary class which have followed vigorously Dr. Montessori's formula… |
Sequence 25of the race. And we have the adolescent to prove otherwise to us. "If we gave the world to the small child,"… |
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 160unpaid, or at best low paid, productive activities are systematically exploited. As the United Nations State of the World… |
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 11of life when young people lhrive on real life experience and active involvement. And lhe adults seemed to the adolescent… |
Sequence 42This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 90Clay, M. (1991). Becoming literate: The construction of inner control. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Clay, M. (1993). Reading… |
Sequence 17and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
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 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 48THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
Sequence 248Meanwhile, Professor Marcel Capraru of the Casa Corpului Di- dactic (Turnu-Severin, Romania), with the assistance of the… |
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 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
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 15Child working with Botanical Cards, Laren, Holland, 1939 lO The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 23, No. 2 • Spring 1998 |
Sequence 16Laren, Holland THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori The Botanical Cards are one of the items of the Montessori… |
Sequence 23and "Where is the fruit?" Eventually we made several groups of envelopes which dealt with flowers and fruit… |
Sequence 41of creation should fashion that the e it but absorb it i h~y will feel that o lace to live in, a p ace w ere generosity… |
Sequence 47Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children… |
Sequence 17THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have… |
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 55Margot Waltuch, Ada Montessori, and Mario Montessori Baarn, Holland, 1963 50 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 24, No. I • Winter 1999 |
Sequence 59She was a teacher, a leader, and a charismatic personality, but she was full of humanity and fun. She felt you could not live… |
Sequence 61ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 64several languages. His genuine kindness attracted them all. He under- stood the immense importance of their inner power, their… |
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 147better still, to the value of work in general, "with its wide social connotations of productiveness and earning power… |
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 21Silver polishing, Laren, Holland, 1948 16 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
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 250READERS RESPOND TO THE WHOLE-SCHOOL MONTESSORI HANDBOOK; INSPIRES ADMINISTRATOR-TEACHER RETREAT The scope, organization… |
Sequence 25But as well as this material territory to be exposed to the child, with the ways in which man has come into contact with other… |
Sequence 106The four planes of development, as recognized by Dr. Montessori, are four stages, relatively equal in length, in the formation… |
Sequence 107Houses and Montessori elementary schools increase around the world, there will probably come about an increasing demand for… |
Sequence 114the stone gatherers and their geological discoveries, through the food gatherers and their botanical discoveries, through the… |
Sequence 121for humanity only if he is recognized as being the product of two earlier planes of development. Dr. Montessori recognized… |
Sequence 10emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane"… |
Sequence 19ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 211A NEW EDUCATION FOR THE SECONDARY SCHOOL A PUBLIC LECfURE GIVEN AT UTRECHT, JANUARY 18, 1937 (ORIGINAL IN FRENCH) by Maria… |
Sequence 231ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g… |
Sequence 235tessori children, to one day be able to have a Montessori Erdkinder. But be very active. It is better to do something than… |
Sequence 247Joosten: You say that the first-year children may not be able to manage more than four and a half days. You also are a mother… |
Sequence 249good as its criteria and the controls and the people executing the experiment must have clarity of vision. But anyone's… |
Sequence 250Joosten: 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 278The education of young people in a commu- nity that is not isolated but only separated from the larger society entails… |
Sequence 279The first objective is reached through experience with music, language, and "travaux artistiq11es" (drawing… |
Sequence 281MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL by H.J. Jordan Dr. Jordan, a collaborator with Maria Montessori, speaks of his conceptual framework… |
Sequence 308and Holland, where the interest was greatest, Montessori told her followers that she wasn't yet ready to discuss this… |
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 577Timeline: Montessori Secondary Development 1907-Rome: Opening of tht Ctlsa dri Biim&mi, the flm MonleSiori e,iperiment… |
Sequence 578Hershey Montessori School, Coo:ord Twp., OH (Laurie Ewert-l<rockex) Adolescent Program at Salila, SWedE!II 0enn y Marie… |
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 129SCHOOLS DISCOVERING THEIR COSMIC TASK by Terry N. Ford This is a very honest account of n school's trinls nnd errors as… |
Sequence 20Paolini had a real interest in the sensorial materials. She even corresponded with Piaget about sensorial experiments such as… |
Sequence 128only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 1894. ERDKINDER AND THE "URBAN COMl'ROMJSE" 5 I have always found it disconcerting when the adjective… |
Sequence 217the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 221We all begin to converse. I recognize, among many others, J. Koning, N. VanderHeide-Verschuur, F. Malik, and G. Portielje from… |