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Sequence 13Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was the first woman physician of her native country, Italy. She became interested in… |
Sequence 22a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
Sequence 85children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 87part) of the disturbing hormonal changes of adolescence, the child of 9 to 12, Montessori believed, is a stronger learner than… |
Sequence 109COSMIC EDUCATION AND LITERATURE- BASED TEACHING by Daniel Bachhuber Daniel Bachhuber provides a practical gttide to the… |
Sequence 146organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
Sequence 193CREATIVE ABILITY IN CHILDHOOD by Maria Montessori Dr. Montessori presented this lecture at the Eightlz l11ternatio11al… |
Sequence 1LINKING THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: THE IMPORTANCE OF p ARENTAL CHOICE IN ADMISSIONS by Sharon L. Dubble, PhD The Montessori… |
Sequence 5thought to what it was I enjoyed as a child. From this reflection I would like to add a couple of additional reasons why… |
Sequence 5basic human values through spiritual good works. Is this not the human being we desire to see as part of our future as a… |
Sequence 14Assessment (1992, p. 7), and the future of testing in America depends on issues of equity and the improvement of opportunities… |
Sequence 1REPORT ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN A PRIVATE MONTESSORI SCHOOL by Tim Duax, PhD A research study at an established private… |
Sequence 1MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys… |
Sequence 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 12The idea Montessori is trying to get across is something so novel, so stupendous, that-as she herself says-she really needs a… |
Sequence 3another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 4that we are now faced with a crisis of global proportions. This situation takes the form of a crisis in energy, food, ecology… |
Sequence 9the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 1SLIDE SHOW TO INTRODUCE WHAT Is MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL? Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in Italy… |
Sequence 3The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 4The word is obviously German. Literally it would translate into English as "earth children." It is a plural… |
Sequence 6• serious farming: growing crops and animals; • selling the products for monetary gain at the nearby town market; •… |
Sequence 1THE FOUR PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by Camillo Grazzini Camillo Grazzini presents two charts designed by Maria Montessori to… |
Sequence 3What I propose to do today is not to repeat, or even to summarize, what has already been said by Montessorians preceding me,… |
Sequence 13adult who can work for the good of humanity and can participate in humanity's (cosmic) mission on this Earth. This is… |
Sequence 28The Italian government did not join the IBE and thereby indirectly favored the dominating influence of the Geneva group of… |
Sequence 31Nature for human development; the emphasis is found at the begin- ning of development, that is to say at birth and the first… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL: p ATHWAYS TO MATURITY by David Kahn As the new year is underway and we approach the twenty-first century with… |
Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Carnillo Grazzini The first section of Mr.… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 20beings, the exploration of this aspect of human society, we usually identify as economic geography in our courses. Montessori… |
Sequence 6well he or she is doing. Most games, sports, artis- tic performances, and re- ligious ceremonies have well-specified goals… |
Sequence 26FLOW IN EVERYDA y LIFE There is no objective way to measure whether a person is in flow or not, comparable, let us say, to… |
Sequence 1EVOLUTION AS PHILOSOPHY AND ACTION by Judith Cunningham-Scott Judith Cunningham-Scott's survey of the spiritual and… |
Sequence 3the U.S. This poet says, "What happens is the work becomes real. It's an alternative reality that suddenly is… |
Sequence 1NORMALIZATION AND NORMALITY ACROSS THE PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by David Kahn With the current emphasis on the four planes of… |
Sequence 3To-day, however, I wish to speak of the adult and of man's psychological structure, as the child has revealed it to us.… |
Sequence 18that belief is there, all rewards and punishments could disappear and new ones would pop up like new Kleenexes in the box. I,… |
Sequence 12visitor you'd be swept off your feet when you see what's happening with children. It interests me as to what they… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 5culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 19most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 17who 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 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 33The implicit value of farming is self- sufficiency, not "cash cropping: The value of giving soltlething back to the… |
Sequence 2"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
Sequence 8with the names of the veins when he was asked the names of the shapes. That is how the present material was devised. The… |
Sequence 6direttamente da Dio. lo nascondo il mio immenso potere e lo uso per ridurre la mia divinita a umanita- per diventare come te… |
Sequence 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 5He 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 8with great thoroughness and perspicacity. And, as formerly stated, he must have followed some inner directive that caused him… |
Sequence 8THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have… |
Sequence 7ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 9It was a delight to watch Mario with children of any age, in any country, immersed in any situation. Mario could speak with… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI COMMUNITY FOR ADOLESCENTS by Camillo Grazzini and Baiba Krumins Indicating the theoretical underpinnings for… |
Sequence 11Certainly more than twenty years of the" urban compromise" in the United States represents a noteworthy… |
Sequence 12in other words, who had been deeply scarred by the war, injured in both body and soul. 6 Other types of institutions have… |
Sequence 13community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 26What guarantee, after all, can the Erdkinder community offer parents? There are no existing Erdkinder com- munities (in the… |
Sequence 31REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:… |
Sequence 6Probably the most dramatic impact of the participatory ar- ticles of the CRC is the way they are being used in some coun-… |
Sequence 23REFERENCES Alston, P., ed. The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling Culture and Human Rights. Florence, Italy:… |
Sequence 16student's preferred form, such as a scrapbook, a story, an annotated photo album, or a timeline. Since writing these… |
Sequence 2THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the… |
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 8use real dishes and cloth towels rather than plastic and Styrofoam; we implement Cosmic Education in the elementary years; we… |
Sequence 2and a master of Zen. It gets awfully crowded in that ever-expanding "within." I was orphaned at the age of… |
Sequence 4own creative way, with love for the child as her guiding principle. It was this that led the first woman medical doctor in… |
Sequence 1ART FROM THE UNIVERSE STORY: NEW MEANING FOR THE CHILD by John Fowler An ardent devotee of Brian Swimme, Mr. Fowler… |
Sequence 2FOREWORD TO THE SECRET OF CHILDHOOD by Margaret E. Stephenson Margaret Stephenson's classic introduction to the root… |
Sequence 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 4with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
Sequence 7essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
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 13form their own organization for mutual support, the Montessori Teachers' Association of Pennsylvania, which they did.… |
Sequence 2THE MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL: PREPARATION FOR WRITING AND READING by Sylvia 0. Richardson Dr. Richardson brings together her… |
Sequence 3direct preparation for writing and reading. In an era when education was stereotyped and discipline in the schools was almost… |
Sequence 2PEDAGOGY OF PLACE: BECOMING ERDKINDER THE MONTESSORI FARM SCHOOL PROGRAM DESIGN POSITION STATEMENT by David Kahn and Laurie… |
Sequence 25REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 1OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,… |
Sequence 50REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 97PEDAGOGY OF PLACE: BECOMING ERDKINDER THE MONTESSORI FARM SCHOOL PROGRAM DESIGN POSITION STATEMENT by David Kahn and Laurie… |
Sequence 162direct preparation for writing and reading. In an era when education was stereotyped and discipline in the schools was almost… |
Sequence 163THE MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL: PREPARATION FOR WRITING AND READING by Sylvia 0. Richardson Dr. Richardson brings together her… |
Sequence 180form their own organization for mutual support, the Montessori Teachers' Association of Pennsylvania, which they did.… |
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 186essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 223with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
Sequence 224The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 225FOREWORD TO THE SECRET OF CHILDHOOD by Margaret E. Stephenson Margaret Stephenson's classic introduction to the root… |
Sequence 7We must present the human story, and this goal is the central and overarching history theme of any Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 8In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 17events, 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… |