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Sequence 238 presentation of certain themes and that they made prolonged use of detenninate elements of the materials. When this… |
Sequence 1338 presentation of certain themes and that they made prolonged use of detenninate elements of the materials. When this… |
Sequence 728 I find that the triangle theme can translate rather easily into math, language, and the cultural subjects of geography,… |
Sequence 167Cardboard Model of an old Amsterdam house made by girl 9 1/4 years of age. (1925). Call of Education, !, 229-30, (2).… |
Sequence 168170 Deitchmann, Robert & Newmanm Isadore. (1976). The use of parent input in program evaluation: one parameter in… |
Sequence 1Education as Peace by John Bremer Dr. Bremer's article portrays, in superb literary style, the contradictions of the… |
Sequence 2labelled - and libelled - as a pornographer. That is the method of character assassination, of attacking people - to take what… |
Sequence 5A second strategy open to the copywriter - and this is particularly useful for what might be called "luxuries&… |
Sequence 6education." Now I draw attention to these lapses not for any wish to belittle the remarkable achievement of Maria… |
Sequence 1COMMITMENT TO PEACE by Renilde Montessori Reni/de Montessori's presentation integrates her personal, international… |
Sequence 3II I The usefulness of Montessori training outside of the classroom was impressive in several ways. Ln my adjunct career as… |
Sequence 4!I I children and trying to see what is universal in their revelations to us and what still requires more thought and study… |
Sequence 3Bambino, was formed to develop materials and to continue the study of the develop- ment of the religious potential in children… |
Sequence 4The Montessori Didactic Material. u=ic:J============c::==~ooooc:===::::i============c::::J7J D D D ~ D □ 0 0 □ D… |
Sequence 6house; it belongs to a friend of children.” Tt was signed with the communist emblem: the hammer and sickle. In country… |
Sequence 460 SELECCIONES DEL READER'S DIGEST emblema comunista de la hoz y el martillo. En un pais tras otro, la guerra cerr6… |
Sequence 105ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 101Baylol", Byrd: I don't remembel' which book l found fil'st, but since then, it's become an… |
Sequence 118Dwye1·: Well, yes of course it does relate to being able to decode; some call that reading, although it is only a small part… |
Sequence 99misunderstood by non-professionals who view evolution as a simple ladder of progress, and therefore expect a linear array of… |
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 47behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
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 106"textbooked" it, but only rarely did we cast it, in terms of intriguing and interesting questions. So, if… |
Sequence 178the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 30AN INTERvIEwWTIH TuoMAS BERRY In an interview with Gerry Leonard in November 1990, Thomas Berry discussed his views about the… |
Sequence 55of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during… |
Sequence 78In the beginning our data consisted of interviews and questionnaires. To achieve greater precision we developed with time a… |
Sequence 25DISCOVERY OF THE CHILD by HiJdegard Solzbacher D,: Montessori, who was a scientist and physician and not a trained educa-… |
Sequence 12thousand Montessori private schools and one hundred public schools in seventy school districts. Montessori schools are… |
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 168This will always stick in my mind: two men, talking about two black, disabled soldiers who had not been shot by the enemy but… |
Sequence 53information from them about haiku except that they loved it and they taught it to the children at their Montessori school in… |
Sequence 55Dr. McGregor Smith, retiring director of the Environmental Ethics Institute at Miami-Dade Community College in Miami, says,… |
Sequence 118have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 673. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
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 101In an earlier chapter of "A Good Enough Parent," Bettelheim describes studies which compare Japanese… |
Sequence 35MONTESSORI AS AN AID TO LIFE by Hildegard Solzbacher Hildegard Solzbacher's direct encounter with Montessori values and… |
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 27Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 155Junior Great Books The Great Books Foundation 40 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 1-800-222-5870 Provides… |
Sequence 14But before we do that, let me talk a little bit about what these activities are like. After I did these original interviews,… |
Sequence 33greater in a Montessori than in a regular classroom, where we are afraid of giving kids control. Of course, in the Montessori… |
Sequence 60evolving society around us. That can be done through things like education, through the program you are doing, but also… |
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 244culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
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 263And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 351organization of story, logic, and truth, which comes to the inevitable realization that to serve is to balance one's… |
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 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 41AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
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 47Listening to poetry is art unto itself. Like listening to jazz or opera, it involves both a disciplined listening and a deep… |
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 25percent of people, both here and in Japan and Germany, where they have also done research, say "No, I don't know… |
Sequence 85In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 174FOLLOWING THE HAND: THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE by Judi Orion Delineating the steps of development of the human hand from… |
Sequence 183one or both arms onto something so they can use their hands to manipulate. Once they are standing, they do not want to sit… |
Sequence 244Japan Saint Maur International School, Yokohama requires Montessori teachers for the 2001-2002academic year. Applicants,… |
Sequence 78still acknowledges the insect's ultimate goal: "Spin and die/ To live again a butterfly." Finally, if… |
Sequence 113just been watching a movie. As I exited, I noticed that many trucks were parked around the perimeter of the camp. Men started… |
Sequence 114Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was… |
Sequence 341ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
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 86some simple food-related activities that young children can do at home. I'm working in Japan right now. In Japan, most… |
Sequence 38Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
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 98teenagers-wake up, and they help out, and then the husband goes fishing or hunting for mushrooms, and then he comes back and… |
Sequence 128only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 217the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |