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Sequence 1ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 1THE NATURE AND THEORY OF SILENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE by Mary Black Verschuur Ph.D With the incisiveness… |
Sequence 2Dwye1·: Well, yes of course it does relate to being able to decode; some call that reading, although it is only a small part… |
Sequence 5misunderstood by non-professionals who view evolution as a simple ladder of progress, and therefore expect a linear array of… |
Sequence 3The Montessorian, in reading Socrates' Theaet,et:us, may begin to describe the Montessori vision with new vocabulary and… |
Sequence 2society. "Rituals are considered to represent only a negative dead- weight from the past." Margaret Mead… |
Sequence 14passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it." She was deceived by very little; she was… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 6can see it - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia." As she named the continents her hand… |
Sequence 4mth regard w hominid evolution, apparently tlie sequential lineage of hominids i.s cmnpletely wrong; f<YUr very… |
Sequence 1mth regard w hominid evolution, apparently tlie sequential lineage of hominids i.s cmnpletely wrong; f<YUr very… |
Sequence 2the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 1THE IDFA OF THE ERDKINDER by Gerry Leonard Today, more than ever before, there is a tremendous need for the Erdkinder. We… |
Sequence 1AN INTERvIEwWTIH TuoMAS BERRY In an interview with Gerry Leonard in November 1990, Thomas Berry discussed his views about the… |
Sequence 6which is trying to become a self-sustaining community in relationship with the plants, the animals, the landscape, the humans… |
Sequence 10of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during… |
Sequence 5... he showed me a picture of the night sky taken with the big telescope. There were tens of thousands of stars and… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 21by the husband. This cycle is found among the Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada as well as among the… |
Sequence 22Ireland which still believes it has descended from a seal. The people of this clan never kill a seal because they would be… |
Sequence 11An exceptional example of vertical history was the Columbus Quincentennary Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art nearly two… |
Sequence 6Alexander the Great, another Greek, was also a great traveller, founding Alexandria in Egypt, and many other towns named… |
Sequence 2People came from the ends of the earth to live in Alexandria. Everyone entered through the Gate of the Sun and left through… |
Sequence 11unpaid, or at best low paid, productive activities are systematically exploited. As the United Nations State of the World… |
Sequence 10were in a Catholic country, so it can be ascribed to the Catholic religion. But it happens in India, it happens in Africa, it… |
Sequence 2The thought of so condemning greed and ambition seems alien for a society apparently rooted in greed and ambition, although… |
Sequence 3another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 9the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 1MOTIVATION: THE FOUNDATION OF SUCCESSFUL LEARNING by Mary B. Verschuur Like Alfie Kohn, Mary Verschuur emphasizes that… |
Sequence 5the same elements that you see in Montessori and Sylvia Ashton Warner. For example, in all of these approaches is a deep… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 16fixed 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 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 4which evolves on its own terms. Like the child, as human culture grows with the passage of time, it becomes more conscious of… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
Sequence 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 1PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE: A MONTESSORI GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer, whose sense of mission and single… |
Sequence 3The simplicity of his early years and his life with Dr. Montessori gave him a rare quality: the ability to mix and be"… |
Sequence 2THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURES: THE MONTESSORI CONTRIBUTION by Winfried Bohm translated by Devan Barker In this masterful… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CHALLENGE, THE DREAM, AND THE PROMISE by Orcillia Oppenheimer The African challenge is… |
Sequence 2South Africa is the southern tip of the African continent. A country of contrasts-from the trees of the dinosaurs to the… |
Sequence 3TURMOIL Reality of Turmoil The argument whether the Sturm und Orang (storm and stress) of the teenage years is a natural and… |
Sequence 17A further argument for emphasizing local environmental research by children is that genuine ecological understanding involves… |
Sequence 25Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992. Piaget,J. TheGtild… |
Sequence 9love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 2Our 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 1COSMOS, HISTORY, AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT by Gerard Leonard A rare weave of classroom examples, literary allusions, and… |
Sequence 21The Last Bargain "Come and hire me," I cried, while in the morning I was walking on the stone-paved road.… |
Sequence 9When they are in high school, are former Montessori students reaching out to others? Are they volunteer tutors? Are they… |
Sequence 6in the year 1000, we find a series of settlements around the planet with a smaller number of hunter-gatherer bands that are… |
Sequence 15The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
Sequence 7essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 9Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 14The child needs to continue experiencing the living environment- the wilds, plants, animals, rocks, various kinds of terrain-… |
Sequence 110The child needs to continue experiencing the living environment- the wilds, plants, animals, rocks, various kinds of terrain-… |
Sequence 184Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 186essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 198The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
Sequence 13REVIEW OF THE GREAT WoRK BY THOMAS BERRY by Gerard Leonard Thomas Berry's latest book, The Great Work, is a very… |
Sequence 1INNOVATION WITHIN LIMITS: How Is IT PossIBLE? A PARTICIPANT'S PERSPECTIVE by Mary B. Verschuur Mary Verschuur, a… |
Sequence 10start to see that Mexico developed in a way that did not completely embrace this Western paradigm. I can tell you that… |
Sequence 12to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 16the Children's House, let them first know a friendly world, which they can love, admire, and feel at one with. Where they… |
Sequence 2How SENSITIVELY TIMED ARE SENSITIVE PERIODS? by Rita Schaefer Zener Rita Schaefer Zener's theory base for sensitive… |
Sequence 2ECOSYSTEMS IN THE BACKYARD PREPARING A DIVERSE OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT FOR PRIMARY (AGES THREE To Six) CHILDREN by Mary B.… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 2 by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer' s caution that the best-laid plans do not… |
Sequence 3In 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 4only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 3the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 10The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
Sequence 14The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
Sequence 45the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 134only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 12Yet I come to London, and every blessed child speaks good English. Who taught them? Where were the professors, the books, the… |
Sequence 2A PATH FOR THE EXPLORATION OF WRITING AND READING by Muriel Dwyer Connecting the Montessori idea of exploration and… |
Sequence 12What you have to remember is that when the children start work- ing with the moveable alphabet and can put out the pictures of… |
Sequence 15have time for questions. But you'll find all the stages in the booklet. Still, the last stage is not to be forgotten-… |
Sequence 12The second consideration is one that is connected with the spiri- tual journey. There is a Celtic tale that I love, for it… |
Sequence 7It is not surprising that Ms. Dwyer renamed her reading classic, originally entitled A Reading Scheme for English (assembled… |
Sequence 8Dwyer, Muriel. "Opening of the 52nd Montessori Interna- tional Course in Child Development." Montessori… |
Sequence 2MORAL FORMATION ON THE SECOND PLANE: NURTURING AND HINDERING by lta Williams !ta Williams asserts that moral development is… |
Sequence 3Moral formation is not kick-started by the adult. Neither is it merely the responsibility of spiritual repairers. The growth… |
Sequence 4Another of the miracles of Montessori is the fact that, on whatever plane you're talking about, moral formation is not… |
Sequence 1work of the spiritual sphere in our world through the eyes of the missionary. This is the true story of a missionary in… |
Sequence 12CULTIVATING THE MONTESSORI SPIRIT THROUGH f AMILY LIFE by Gerard Leonard Looking back at his own childhood, Gerard Leonard… |
Sequence 15We tell many stories of the great and famous inventions and discoverers of history from Archimedes to the present, and other… |
Sequence 16The 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 78Bringing Montessori to Children in Special Need Some of the children [ tubercular patients] were mobile, others were n!… |
Sequence 80Display Case Historic Montessori items from England, Ireland, and Scotland On display are documents from the Seventh… |
Sequence 104South Africa: Grassroots Networks South Africa: Montessori in the Context of Social Reform Jenco School, o villoge-operoted,… |
Sequence 106Montessori in Africa, continued Helping one another, Uma Lourdes School, Soweto (near Johonnesburg), I 998 Mosizokhe… |
Sequence 108Children's House co/or toblet work at Telperion Farm School, 1998 Montessori in Africa, continued Inter }oho C/… |
Sequence 134Religious Education, continued > • ' • ' • ~ n 1:i t.) 14 • l:,,. a • • • 11 nn'&l 11 i… |
Sequence 136Display Case fo Religious education and the Montessori method This display case contains early editions of Montessori's… |
Sequence 138Religious Education, continued Pope John Paul II visiting on atrium in Rome, /983 The atrium is in Nostro Signora de Lourdes… |
Sequence 139• ;t,r,,',,•:,I.; • 1r1'111 ~-- ,. I I o , .,l1L i II " , Thus it will be seen that the work of… |
Sequence 148Montessori Farm Programs in Africa, Australia, and Mexico Shepherding pygmy goats, Telperion Farm School. serving ages 3-18… |
Sequence 165/915 Second trip to the United States, accompanied by her son. Mario. Addresses International Kindergarten Union and… |
Sequence 180Welcome to the Children's Mural This portion of the exhibit was created from over 800 pieces of work submitted by 35… |