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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 1SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK AND THE CHILD by Mario M. Montessori edited by Renilde Montessori Last month, in Edinburgh, Professor A.J… |
Sequence 1/J~ ---------------------- MONTESSORI EDUCATION: p AST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE by David Kahn In 1998, Renilde Montessori… |
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 11• Children as young as ten or eleven being involved in rape • Ten-or eleven-year-olds taking heroin and other drugs. Another… |
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 7nation, she rejects Froebel's way of doing so on the basis of fantasy because, as she says, it forces the child to &… |
Sequence 7"Let us give the child a vi- sion of the whole uni verse. The universe is an imposing real- ity, and an answer to… |
Sequence 25qualitative enhancement? In that case, death would be a personal movement toward deeper participation in God's own… |
Sequence 9When they are in high school, are former Montessori students reaching out to others? Are they volunteer tutors? Are they… |
Sequence 1t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA… |
Sequence 16It is true that when the art- ist is in action, he may function in three ways simultaneously. In teaching, however, we… |
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 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 15The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
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 4The implications are these: l. respect for the child's capacity and abilities; 2. change in attitude about Practical… |
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 23with the students excerpts of Maria Montessori' s To Educate the Human Potential.) This is not to make the Erdkinder… |
Sequence 3Creative expression-what's that? I propose this definition: generating a product that is valued in a cultural context (… |
Sequence 46Creative expression-what's that? I propose this definition: generating a product that is valued in a cultural context (… |
Sequence 76with the students excerpts of Maria Montessori' s To Educate the Human Potential.) This is not to make the Erdkinder… |
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 138The implications are these: l. respect for the child's capacity and abilities; 2. change in attitude about Practical… |
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 198The child's mind between three and six can not only see by intelligence the relations between things, but it has the… |
Sequence 224The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 10ognize each other as individuals and "have a reciprocal feeling for each other's worth" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 14If the environment is warm and safe, however, and if adults deal "sweetly and kindly" with them (Montessori… |
Sequence 3If the seeds are sown in the elementary years, they take root in the place of the adolescent years. The important… |
Sequence 12Erica: I am so lucky to be living, and living in such a great place. Studying the Hubbell Telescope though has made me think… |
Sequence 23reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 3Montessori continues in To Educate the Human Potential: The child of six who has been in a Montessori school has the… |
Sequence 4scheduling practice, and assessing levels of achievement, as a teacher usually does, the guide, based on his or her knowledge… |
Sequence 16that-all in one word, which we don't do in English. We tend to depend much more on syntax or word order or stringing… |
Sequence 33have seen it in my own children. My third child is actually probably the slowest with language of any of them, but he's… |
Sequence 6sentence, or a short paragraph that describes, defines, or highlights an experience in the environment.Descriptive labels for… |
Sequence 9something that's a sign that's inevitably linked to a particular occa- sion, like traffic lights at intersections,… |
Sequence 13The trees The ancient guards The silent watchers They follow me with eyes unseen And that silence That terrible silence,… |
Sequence 1PROCESS WRITING: FINDING FLOW IN ADOLESCENT SELF-EXPRESSION by Kim Kinzer-Brackbill Process writing has been a mainstay for… |
Sequence 16THE CULTURE OF CIVILITY: THE COHESION OF THE SOCIAL COMMUNITY by Pat Ludick Comparing the common characteristics between… |
Sequence 8I am reminded of the truth of these comments every year. The fact is that adults, in general, don't like this age. Many… |
Sequence 2And adolescents need to engage in real work that they see as important to others, to their community of peers or to the larger… |
Sequence 13• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 1exercise his mental powers. Instruction is considered the on! y goal in secondary school, but what sort of instruction? What… |
Sequence 3WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
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 7microcosm. They re- semble a child's aquarium. In his au- tobiography, Loren Eiseley writes that his most important… |
Sequence 19and basic algebra. Therefore, the next stage of mathematics must use and develop this power of abstraction. The second… |
Sequence 12. Lay down a baseline and measure it as accurately as possible and precisely as necessary. This is the most important stage… |
Sequence 19bottom line pressures? From journalistic sensationalism or the patenting of genetic breakthroughs, some prac- tices that… |
Sequence 1brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 2ATTACHMENT PARENTING: A STYLE THAT w ORKS by William Sears It is important to fully explore the questions of attachment and… |
Sequence 10Around five to six months of age, precisely because his motor abilities have improved so much, the child may decide to get out… |
Sequence 1USING THE ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY FOR PRE-ADOLESCENTS: ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY p ARENTHOOD by Judi Orion The life cycle of… |
Sequence 2Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 9EXCELLENCE AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS I would like to say a few words about what happens at the other end, once you are into… |
Sequence 1CIVILITY AND CITIZENSHIP: THE ROOTS OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION by Patricia Ludick This article weaves into the adolescent… |
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 7components describes the real parameters of a philosophy of educa- tion, the important ones in any case. Today l'm going… |
Sequence 15interesting that this is what he drew from that. Six million Jews die, and he's talking about indifference and wonder.… |
Sequence 2history, in the earth's logic, in nature's bounty, in the wonders of the human-built world. We are keepers of human… |
Sequence 7The totality of the cosmos may not be compartmentalized into subjects. Subjects are helpful for the teacher to keep order… |
Sequence 7The first and third planes, ages zero to six and twelve to eighteen, are periods of creation of characteristics that were not… |
Sequence 14closing or revolutionizing the traditional types of employ- ment. ... there is a need for a more dynamic training of… |
Sequence 4extremely valuable and will have these larger social and political effects. With that, let me begin to talk about the topic… |
Sequence 11This shift of focus from objects to relationships is not an easy one because it is something that goes counter to the… |
Sequence 6need to go inside of our being and get in con tact with our "True Self," the divine core where divine Light… |
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 6cient history, astronomy, geology, and chemistry-in other words, a cosmic curriculum. The work of the child at the second… |
Sequence 23memorization of puzzle words, or math facts, our goal should be to hear the child asking questions such as these: "… |
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 5upset if they are given any kind of gift, which is what anthropologists used to do originally when they visited. They left… |
Sequence 6to provide any kind of alternative to these old traditional ways of development. Then there is this fourth category, which is… |
Sequence 14But this cosmic vision belonged not only to Maria Montessori; it belongs to the whole of our Montessori movement. It imparts a… |
Sequence 12This is the time, says Montessori, "when the social man is created but has not yet reached full development"… |
Sequence 20The "Energies" of Infancy In the lecture that Montessori gave with the help of this second chart (Second… |
Sequence 6also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |
Sequence 4only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 12Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 3the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 14We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 26We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 45the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,… |
Sequence 126Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 134only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 144also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |