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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 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 2systems. And of course, another irony is that those who preach change always preach how someone else should go about change,… |
Sequence 2the common experience for fashioning questions in the right way to reveal what they know, rather than just revealing… |
Sequence 10of President Wilson. Montessori lectured in cities in South America, and, of course, conducted many courses in India during… |
Sequence 20Stories A small group of children can write a collective story. The direccress asks questions and writes down rhe children… |
Sequence 28children's transition from orality to literacy as unqualified progress, we were to view it as a trade-off made for… |
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 3exciting, I hearli/y recommend the following books to aid you in your studies: Baughman, Emest(1966). A TypeandMotif-Jnde.… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 17HISTORY, CMcs, GEOGRAPHY, AND ECONOMICS 1. What is the democratic ideal? How, when, why, and where has it arisen in the… |
Sequence 183. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
Sequence 19Early Years of Exploration and Settlement in America I. Ideas to Investigate for Reports a. Europeans who reached North… |
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 10with content that is familiar in students' everyday experience. The argument moves through the following steps: Everyday… |
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 3of life when young people lhrive on real life experience and active involvement. And lhe adults seemed to the adolescent… |
Sequence 59of which h,l\ e been appropriated h} traditional, mainstrl'.tm education. So we arc 1101 seen as lotally unique.… |
Sequence 60• At the same time, we need Lo decide as a group of Montessori schools \, hat our target is in the clevcloprnenl of adolescent… |
Sequence 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
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 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 1NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 1OUTDOOR SETTINGS FOR PLAYING AND LEARNING: DESIGNING SCHOOL GROUNDS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE WHOLE CHILD AND WHOLE… |
Sequence 8ments of animals or the wind in the trees, or to express feelings, they are given the opportunity to explore alternate… |
Sequence 10when crafted well are memorable experiences. I was privileged to be at the last live performance of Chief Dan George telling… |
Sequence 11memory. Over the centuries, they roamed sea and land and learned them well; their history was encoded in stories and chants,… |
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 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 2THE MONTESSORI FAMILY AND ME by Margot W altuch This beautiful vignette of Margot Waltuch' s connection to the… |
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 5Cavalletti had taken Hebrew classes with Zolli and, after earning her doctorate, became his colleague. He is well-known… |
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 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 8cooked supper for all seven of us. The others washed up so the cook could retreat to her album work. By the time we arrived,… |
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 8The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
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 116The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
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 185cooked supper for all seven of us. The others washed up so the cook could retreat to her album work. By the time we arrived,… |
Sequence 198The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
Sequence 5This experience we observe even now in the indigenous peoples of the world. They live in a universe, in a cosmological order,… |
Sequence 3The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven… |
Sequence 1THE UNFOLDING DRAMA OF THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT IN AMERICA by David Kahn ACT ONE: IN THE BEGINNING Since the late 1970s,… |
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 7on earth. Over 3.5 billion years there have been five of these events. Isn't it amazing that humans have reached the… |
Sequence 23do you contemplate four billion years or ten thousand years if not through story, if not through music, if not through art?… |
Sequence 1ALIGNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by David Kahn As 250 Montessori schools in North America… |
Sequence 6Montessori has this wonderful notion of the universe story as a curricular framework for the middle years, which operates at… |
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 3mihalyi, The Social Context) concludes that Montessori students have more positive perceptions of their school environment and… |
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 9The very same Lusitania, on a similar return voyage from North America only sixteen months later (May 7th, 1915), would be… |
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 15The 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 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 2PROJECT 2012: HISTORY WHITHER BOUND FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE? PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PREMISES by David Kahn… |
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 2unfortunately I was unable to find the millionaire to fi- nance it. It was so visionary and also so revolutionary that it… |