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Sequence 340Wolf's survey is a resource which will provide a variety of starters for conversations and classroom techniques about… |
Sequence 1THE Vol. 23, No. 2 Spring 1998 NAMTA Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom Introduction by David Kahn Respect… |
Sequence 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 8universe; for one must encounter the facts of nature so that the imagination can build its vision of the whole based in the… |
Sequence 32Kodaikanal, India THE IMPACT OF INDIA by Mario M. Montessori Looking back on the checkered life of Dr. Montessori in this… |
Sequence 40Kodaikanal, India THE KooAIKANAL EXPERIENCE: KAHN-MONTESSORI INTERVIEW by David Kahn David Kahn: You once alluded to… |
Sequence 41of creation should fashion that the e it but absorb it i h~y will feel that o lace to live in, a p ace w ere generosity… |
Sequence 45had its cosmic task. And some of these tasks were not pleasant for human beings. The children might consider the task horrible… |
Sequence 46contained by a cylinder, it pushes together. When you take the sides of the cylinder off, it pushes together. Then you… |
Sequence 47Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children… |
Sequence 50Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &… |
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 61ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
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 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 43and a master of Zen. It gets awfully crowded in that ever-expanding "within." I was orphaned at the age of… |
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 85In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 86The Greek word cosmic has four complementary and interwoven meanings. On its basic level, it means order and harmony; then… |
Sequence 87The third thing we should understand is that elementary children were full partners in the creation of cosmic education. The… |
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 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 91ment. Knowledge is what the human mind strives to acquire and what gives the child a rewarding life. MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE… |
Sequence 98REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
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 194Montessori Teachers "Those who trust us educate us" Palm Harbor Montessori Acad- emy is seeking teachers (… |
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 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 313students to apprentice themselves to master craftsmen, usually school employees or experts brought to the school for that… |
Sequence 319ideas of Erdkinder out of this milieu is the thesis that the documenta- tion in this paper seeks to demonstrate. She as much… |
Sequence 321road to achieving economic independence." A big difference, perhaps the largest difference, of the Erdkinder when… |
Sequence 322from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on… |
Sequence 326really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire… |
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… |
Sequence 388simplification to suggest that today's "growing up" problems could be solved by a return to the rural… |
Sequence 393Routine care of plants and animals develops the habit of being a responsible participant in the community-a form of… |
Sequence 576THE MONTESSORI PAST AS PRELUDE TO A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL Montessori adolescent education takes place squarely in the con… |
Sequence 577Timeline: Montessori Secondary Development 1907-Rome: Opening of tht Ctlsa dri Biim&mi, the flm MonleSiori e,iperiment… |
Sequence 597Victor Davis Hanson is professor of Greek at California State University (Fresno) and lives on his family's farm in the… |
Sequence 233NAMTANEWS NAMTAJouRNALs: PRODUCTION REPORT AND SCHEDULING With the release of a nearly definitive 600 page Journal in… |
Sequence 251nesota River, about 30 miles from Minneapolis. A beautiful, expansive additiontoourbuildingwillbecom- pleted by fall of 2002… |
Sequence 38Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
Sequence 117they know all the people don't care anyway, so they can do what they want or maybe give token attention to that little… |
Sequence 143trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of… |
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 153Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 177MEMORIAL MASS IN HONOR OF MARGARET E. STEPHENSON: A QUIET FAREWELL No words can measure the feelings of love and loss for… |
Sequence 184We are looking for a few great Montessori Teachers There is only one Sarasota, Florida-Beautiful Beaches-Sun- shine and… |
Sequence 195ingfora DirectorofMontessoriEdu- cation. The successful candidate must have a BA/BS in education (MA/ MS preferred), hold a… |
Sequence 56Ryan, A., & H. Patrick. "The Classroom Environment and Changes in Adolescents' Motivation and Engagement… |
Sequence 11that if you invented your project without Montessori parameters, your result would not be a Montessori original but a banal… |
Sequence 23context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 192Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to… |
Sequence 199From this perspective, it is completely counter-productive and also contrary to Montessori's thinking to have individuals… |
Sequence 205From this point of view, we can also understand the explosion in the supply of computers to children, even to children of a… |
Sequence 226with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen… |
Sequence 92have their roots from different countries, from different peoples-I mean, there in America you should have an enormous number… |
Sequence 160THE GREAT RIVER by Baiba Krumins Grazzini The Great River is sometimes referred to as a metaphor for human unity, which has… |
Sequence 48awful, then just don't do it, whatever "it" is. Some of the real fiascos we're having in corporate… |
Sequence 791965, and I'm driving along listening to NPR and out comes Charles Murray, one of the authors of The Bell Curve,… |
Sequence 118THE CHILD IN THE FAMILY: THE JOURNEY CONNECTS WITH FAMILY LIFE Back from Bergamo training in America, my wife and I met our… |
Sequence 198CONCRETIZING COSMIC EDUCATION IN INDIA: A MONTESSORI HISTORICAL ACCOUNT by Ela Eckert Ela Eckert's detailed account of… |
Sequence 205House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational… |
Sequence 207classes existed for students from the ages of six to twelve, but in Kodaikanal Maria Montessori developed cosmic education as… |
Sequence 208about this: " ... when coming to Kodaikanal, a whole new world opened up for Mario. He was mostly experimenting and… |
Sequence 209Because of its seclusion, the population of Kodai grew slowly despite the favorable climate, and always there were many more… |
Sequence 210and finally abandoned. Remaining are unique archives with histori- cal documents about the Jesuit missionaries in southern… |
Sequence 211children, the Swedish and the Jewish school, as well as a few Catholic schools for the children of Tamil families. How was… |
Sequence 212opened a small school, where she began working with four children and eventually, together with other Indian women, cared for… |
Sequence 213Maria Montessori probably was notable to appreciate the unusual diversity of nature with the same open-mindedness with which… |
Sequence 214Museum of the Sacred Heart College, founded by two priests between 1920 and 1940, was frequently visited by both Montessoris… |
Sequence 215attempts I made to dig out information about Maria Montessori's stay and work in Koda i. My inquiries were frequent! y… |
Sequence 216found herself for a time in a frustrating professional isolation: no official notice or acknowledgement of her work, no… |
Sequence 218switched to the KIS, where her parents worked) responsible for her lifelong interest in learning and education is quite… |
Sequence 224between human beings and the cosmos comes up over and over again. For that reason, Maria Montessori, with her discourses about… |
Sequence 225-------------------------------- ---- and Hindu religion deepened, the cosmic idea came to the fore. Shankar Dutta Panday, a… |
Sequence 226On the other hand: The gradually concretized splendid vision of a cosmic education developing into a comprehensive didactic… |