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Sequence 5His own compositions play a large part in this developing consciousness, as does listening to music. Through the development… |
Sequence 2educational experience. Their activities include large group discussion-encounters (we call them pow-wows) which were started… |
Sequence 2The Congres5 met in The Royal Tropical Institute, one of the most remarkable and extensive buildings in Amsterdam, reflecting… |
Sequence 1Mario M. Montessori Is Dead Chronicle of a Ceremony by Camillo Grazzini Mr. Grazzini's sensitive portrayal of the… |
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 168170 Deitchmann, Robert & Newmanm Isadore. (1976). The use of parent input in program evaluation: one parameter in… |
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 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 111could make the children silent and yet claim freedom. The age-old misconceptions of freedom and discipline surfaced for… |
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 18So the character traits that we call virtues spring up spontaneously. We cannot teach this kind of morality to children of… |
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 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 9educationalese all have a purpose. But in my estimation they represent exercises in minutiae-the kind of minutiae that… |
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 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 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 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 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 53REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,… |
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 62Montessori, Maria. "Child's Instinct to Work [Lecture, London, 1939]." AMI Communications (1973, #4): 6… |
Sequence 46Koch, S., & D. Leary, eds. A Century of Psychology as Scie11ce. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Lerner, R. 011 the… |
Sequence 183Graves, Donald. "Making Meaning Clear: The Logic of Revision." Journal of Basic Writing (1981, Fall/Winter… |
Sequence 75REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
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 562Erikson, E. H. Young Man Luther. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958. Gardner, H. Creating Minds. New York: Basic… |
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 126• feeling of usefulness and an understanding of one's "many sided powers of adaptation" (Montessori,… |
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 53REFERENCES Joosten, A.M. Learning From the Child. Amsterdam: Asso- ciation Montessori lnternationale, n.d. Reprinted from… |
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 111This clear separation would help communication both within the adult Montessori community and also with the world at large.… |
Sequence 128only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 140Foreword by Margaret Drummond. The Italian edition isComeconobbiMaria Montessori. Rome: Vita dell'infanzia, 1956.… |
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 109esteem emerge within the child. We know that the child's referring to herself and taking action is going to depend very… |
Sequence 143computer I cell phone ban. She and her father jokingly referred to the period of withdrawal that she experienced from her… |
Sequence 8common goals that introduce real responsibilities at a younger and younger age. One may ask if this conversation is concrete… |
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 196Montessori, Maria. The Child, Society and the World: Unpub- lished Speeches and Writings. 1979. Trans. Caroline Juler &… |
Sequence 63I return to the main question: Can the syllabus be applied in other settings? If we know what the intent is, we certainly can… |
Sequence 93also diplomatically handles complaints about menus and the balanc- ing of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food options. The… |
Sequence 101we should set forth large challenges whose fulfillment requires both the commitment and development of the individual and of… |
Sequence 114years of creativity, experimentation, study, and refinement. That's where we are now in the adolescent work-guided by… |
Sequence 147of the day students as well. Though they were sometimes not the majority in terms of numbers, the boarding students were… |
Sequence 167REFERENCES Grazzini, Camillo. "The Four Planes of Development." The Child, the Family, the Future. AMI… |
Sequence 278The adolescent project continues, as does the path of human development. Montessori says, "The intimate vocation of… |
Sequence 303REFERENCES Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Trans. Claude A. Claremont. Oxford: Clio, 1988. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 315tion in the years ahead, of this we are certain. We eagerly anticipate meeting people (practitioners and adolescents) who will… |
Sequence 327understand how something moves from one part to the next, e.g., the flow of digested material through the digestive system or… |
Sequence 3371. For a successful closing of circles and the opening of new ones. 2. For them to have the necessary energy and vitality to… |
Sequence 345Montessori, Maxia. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. A.M. Joosten. Rev. ed. Oxford: Clio, 1996. Stephenson,… |
Sequence 386Emily Dickinson captures the experience of a teacher desperately attempting to encounter the human potential in each child at… |
Sequence 440REFERENCES Montessori,Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Trans. Claude A. Claremont. Oxford: Clio, 1988. Montessori, Maria.… |