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Sequence 117children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 180a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
Sequence 181Bremer, J. (1985, Fall). Education as peace. The NAMTA Quar- terly, 11(1), 21-40. Capra, F. (1993). The turning of the tide.… |
Sequence 209Montessori Academy is fully equipped, including curriculum sup- port materials, science and arts mate- rials, and library… |
Sequence 27LINKING THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: THE IMPORTANCE OF p ARENTAL CHOICE IN ADMISSIONS by Sharon L. Dubble, PhD The Montessori… |
Sequence 135Assessment (1992, p. 7), and the future of testing in America depends on issues of equity and the improvement of opportunities… |
Sequence 11PART I MONTESSORI IN AMERICA SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 August, 1995, marks the 125th anniversary of Maria Montessori' s… |
Sequence 14these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 94The idea Montessori is trying to get across is something so novel, so stupendous, that-as she herself says-she really needs a… |
Sequence 101another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 102that we are now faced with a crisis of global proportions. This situation takes the form of a crisis in energy, food, ecology… |
Sequence 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 39The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 145WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 94MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 5EDITORIAL: p ATHWAYS TO MATURITY by David Kahn As the new year is underway and we approach the twenty-first century with… |
Sequence 166To-day, however, I wish to speak of the adult and of man's psychological structure, as the child has revealed it to us.… |
Sequence 212to prepare adults for the great work of assisting children in their growth. Responsibilities include organiza- tional tasks… |
Sequence 26that belief is there, all rewards and punishments could disappear and new ones would pop up like new Kleenexes in the box. I,… |
Sequence 255digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 256to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 258most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 260quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 278who is still farming, they eventually have to come to you to ship their fruit back east and you can charge them at each stage… |
Sequence 279have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 321The implicit value of farming is self- sufficiency, not "cash cropping: The value of giving soltlething back to the… |
Sequence 340Wolf's survey is a resource which will provide a variety of starters for conversations and classroom techniques about… |
Sequence 362NE 11th Ave, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Fax # (954) 768-8117. Montessori Country Day School seeks AMI teacher for established… |
Sequence 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 92He has become adapted to his group as it is at the particular time when he is growing up and to his environment and whatever… |
Sequence 150community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 163What guarantee, after all, can the Erdkinder community offer parents? There are no existing Erdkinder com- munities (in the… |
Sequence 192Probably the most dramatic impact of the participatory ar- ticles of the CRC is the way they are being used in some coun-… |
Sequence 245student's preferred form, such as a scrapbook, a story, an annotated photo album, or a timeline. Since writing these… |
Sequence 247two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
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 165use real dishes and cloth towels rather than plastic and Styrofoam; we implement Cosmic Education in the elementary years; we… |
Sequence 191ebrates its 15th anniversary with plans to expand enrollment to 220 students ( ages 15 mos. to 14). Open- ings for… |
Sequence 43and a master of Zen. It gets awfully crowded in that ever-expanding "within." I was orphaned at the age of… |
Sequence 146Now ANNOUNCING NAMTA's Conference Year (ON FERENCE SCHEDULE FOR 1999-2000 ... MONTESSORI FOUNDATIONS: PRIMARY… |
Sequence 23The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 24with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
Sequence 61essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 62cooked 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 67form their own organization for mutual support, the Montessori Teachers' Association of Pennsylvania, which they did.… |
Sequence 84THE MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL: PREPARATION FOR WRITING AND READING by Sylvia 0. Richardson Dr. Richardson brings together her… |
Sequence 85direct preparation for writing and reading. In an era when education was stereotyped and discipline in the schools was almost… |
Sequence 200ENCOURAGING THE CREATIVE VOICE OF THE CHILD by Bruce Torff Coming from the perspective of higher education, Dr. Torff… |
Sequence 255AMI school seeking a 6-9 Elemen- tary Directress for the Fall of 2000 in Tampa, Florida. Call Roberta at 813- 354-9511.… |
Sequence 114events, and people. The point of origin of the universe is indeed in each of them, in this place and they play it out in a… |
Sequence 115with the gifts of its mission of free- dom, its colorful history of different peoples, its art and literature that tell that… |
Sequence 251Georgia Decatur Montessori School is look- ing for an AMI teachertoheadanew primary classroom. Decatur is a small, family… |
Sequence 6MARGARET E. STEPHENSON: FOLLOWING THE CHILD ACROSS THE PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by David Kahn Margaret E. Stephenson's… |
Sequence 24operation, the exploration by sentiment for the development of the spiritual territory, the exploration by the senses for the… |
Sequence 62chosen by adults are wrong. Moreover, these centers of interest are superfluous, for the child is interested in everything. Do… |
Sequence 141parent, and one Montessori educa- tor at a time. Weare presently search- ing for an extraordinary elementary guide who wants… |
Sequence 116the Scientific Revolution, and England and America during the Indus- trial Revolution. For each academic year, we will select… |
Sequence 2171st to June 15th 2001. Both classes are well-established communities with a full range of Montessori ma- terials appropriate… |
Sequence 218childrenageslto 12. We plan to start an IC in the fall of 2001 and will consider sponsoring a qualified applicant for the… |
Sequence 219on certification and reciprocity may be obtained from the Georgia Profes- sional Standards Commission www.gapsc.com).… |
Sequence 194Montessori Teachers "Those who trust us educate us" Palm Harbor Montessori Acad- emy is seeking teachers (… |
Sequence 196perienced, supportive, and active faculty. Atlanta affords many "Go- ingOut," personal and professional… |
Sequence 11National Erdkinder Consortium, a clearing house for Erdkinder devel- opment founded by Gang. Three previously unpublished… |
Sequence 20If the human being is what we study, then we must create an environment which uniquely addresses the psychologi- cal… |
Sequence 23PaAJ 1: 1/ie, ttf~ e~ AN OVERVIEW OF ADOLESCENCE by Phil Gang Dr. Gang's overview of adolescence provides a backdrop… |
Sequence 24Towards the end of the nineteenth century the status of youth rapidly declined for three reasons: 1. Technical advancements… |
Sequence 153written material, discussion, and a variety of field experi- ences. Each student will: • Read Travels with Charley, by John… |
Sequence 179contemporary civilization. It is surely debilitating to the individual intellect. Mumford's remedy for the narrow, under… |
Sequence 231ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g… |
Sequence 232The parents have to accept that you cannot give guarantees for one year. We can guaran- tee that we will get the child to a… |
Sequence 233Joosten: It is a kind of in-service training for a regular institution, so not like we have the pre-primary and primary people… |
Sequence 234you are not good at waiting. How can you be? We are, in Europe, suffering from the defects of old age, and that is why we… |
Sequence 235tessori children, to one day be able to have a Montessori Erdkinder. But be very active. It is better to do something than… |
Sequence 236school-for those eleven years, the children went to the public exami- nation, and they didn't mind at all. And so then,… |
Sequence 237Joosten: The only thing is that you should assume obligations to the families and the children over periods of time, so that… |
Sequence 238Joosten: The individuals who would work in and for this experi- ment would work like concentric circles. At the center there… |
Sequence 239Joosten: The seventh leg is someone who really wants to do it. But it's not enough to want to. That is where we have to… |
Sequence 240they will be accepted. I think it is not-I am not good at defining personal qualities. Joosten: Let me try. They should be… |
Sequence 241experiment two or three times. And then do the same with the next three years, the senior high, fifteen through eighteen.… |
Sequence 242your child first goes on an independent shopping expedition and you shadow him. The present queen of Holland, when she was a… |
Sequence 243that it is not the full answer for setting it up, but the land is one of the things. If you get money, you will definitely… |
Sequence 244Joosten: Scientifically speaking, then already you do not have your experiment. Erdkinder Atlanta: It would be better to keep… |
Sequence 245have not had Montessori Our thoughts were that those children would be very carefully selected, certainly not children with… |
Sequence 246Erdkinder Atlanta: Would it be possible to include children who have had Montessori schooling, perhaps in the primary years… |
Sequence 247Joosten: You say that the first-year children may not be able to manage more than four and a half days. You also are a mother… |
Sequence 248Erdkinder Atlanta: Danish? Joosten: Yes, there are some schools there. But these are for prestige, not yet for education.… |
Sequence 249good as its criteria and the controls and the people executing the experiment must have clarity of vision. But anyone's… |
Sequence 250Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an… |
Sequence 251Joosten: Some have disappeared and others have come in, etc. But whatever they use, whatever you see being used, will be a… |
Sequence 252foosten: But that's elementary material. Erdkinder Atlanta: So we don't have all the elementary material. Joosten:… |
Sequence 259sure to have placed on them. Academically. They have exerted their own pressure upon themselves during the years from six to… |
Sequence 260The urban school that functions as a prerequisite to Erdkindercan continue to foster the same Montessori. attitudes that have… |
Sequence 293WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 313students to apprentice themselves to master craftsmen, usually school employees or experts brought to the school for that… |
Sequence 351In the Hellenistic period we will see farms of 5,000, 10,000, 15,000- the largest I know of was over 70,000 acres in Egypt.… |
Sequence 352you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 355to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 356all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 375carefully-not only admit that they lose money on the growing; they welcome it. They like that loss, because that means… |
Sequence 376Criticism of democracy has ea used the biggest trouble in my own life-not only in reviews but also after lectures-and some… |