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Sequence 27children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 18a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
Sequence 3IN MEMORIAM ELISE BRAUN BARNETT 1904-1994 On November 20, 1994, the Montessori community lost a tireless lover of children… |
Sequence 4Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was the first woman physician of her native country, Italy. She became interested in… |
Sequence 13Dr. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was the first woman physician of her native country, Italy. She became interested in… |
Sequence 17IN MEMORIAM ELISE BRAUN BARNETT 1904-1994 On November 20, 1994, the Montessori community lost a tireless lover of children… |
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 146organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
Sequence 184concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the… |
Sequence 1LINKING THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: THE IMPORTANCE OF p ARENTAL CHOICE IN ADMISSIONS by Sharon L. Dubble, PhD The Montessori… |
Sequence 14Assessment (1992, p. 7), and the future of testing in America depends on issues of equity and the improvement of opportunities… |
Sequence 1UNIVERSALITY OF THE SPECIAL CHILD by Nimal Vaz Human beings are generally accustomed to taking survival for granted. At a… |
Sequence 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 3In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,… |
Sequence 8Greek art has survived all other arts as though it were immortal and superior to them all. Truth positively sought for is… |
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 15century, no scientist or philosopher any longer believed in the idea of linear development during the prenatal period, in the… |
Sequence 29willing to compromise. 23 As far as she was concerned, selecting some aspects of the method and excluding others meant… |
Sequence 30nature of the method. 24 The final result was that, as Montessori herself writes: "The world of official education… |
Sequence 33In The Absorbent Mind, Montessori writes, "The child is endowed with unknown powers which can guide us to a radiant… |
Sequence 1THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
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 25chemicals is obviously an attempt to recapture some of the qualities of optimal experience by artificial means. Alcohol,… |
Sequence 9The prepared environment must allow for social interaction and be multi-aged. Research sug- gests that "the human… |
Sequence 12I said, uoh my God, how can they use the word creative in connection with synchronized swimming?," which to me… |
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 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 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 6direttamente da Dio. lo nascondo il mio immenso potere e lo uso per ridurre la mia divinita a umanita- per diventare come te… |
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 6gathered from throughout the world were more than just a little shocked to hear her begin her speech with the honest admission… |
Sequence 2THE MONTESSORI FAMILY AND ME by Margot W altuch This beautiful vignette of Margot Waltuch' s connection to the… |
Sequence 3La Dottoressa wanted to find out more about me: the how and the why and the who and the what. Her approach to people was to… |
Sequence 4to someone. People had a context for her, and this was the first educa- tional principle I learned from her. Since my family… |
Sequence 5She was a teacher, a leader, and a charismatic personality, but she was full of humanity and fun. She felt you could not live… |
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 7Prepare teachers through prolonged practice with observation of nature .... (Discovery 66-77) And when I talk about freedom… |
Sequence 3NORMALIZATION AS OUR PRIMARY WORK Perhaps this conference marks the next step in our development of Montessori's ideas.… |
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 32Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. Bombay: Orient Longmans, 1936. "Progressive Education."… |
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 5woman in Europe. Eleanor looked to King Louis for help and he offered his sixteen-year-old son, also Louis, to become her… |
Sequence 16student's preferred form, such as a scrapbook, a story, an annotated photo album, or a timeline. Since writing these… |
Sequence 6Montessori provides her audience with a character sketch of this 11 new teacher": The more such a teacher "… |
Sequence 2DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 3in an experience of religious education known as the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd… |
Sequence 5-------------------------------- -- --- Three-year-old Mark (USA), being told by his mother that the Good Shepherd calls… |
Sequence 1Two TRIBUTES To SoFIA CAVALLETTI The following tributes were presented to Sofia c.avalletti at the NAMT A conference entitled… |
Sequence 1DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 2) by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro presents an intellectual view… |
Sequence 3If we delay catechesis until the customary age of six, the child has moved into a new ethical stage in life when God is more… |
Sequence 4child. One is her demonstration, through numerous examples, of the catechetical potential of children as young as three.… |
Sequence 2THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the… |
Sequence 8• "Catechist and children are very happy, particularly the little ones (three to four years)." • "… |
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 2Psychologists, on the other hand, were traditionally foot-bound, over- burdened with statistical evidence, viewing "… |
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 10At the same time, she identifies herself as a student of philosophy. She even translated an 1866 English edition of a book by… |
Sequence 1THE RELATION BETWEEN THE CHILD'S WORK AND COSMIC WORK by Gianna Gobbi Gianna Gobbi' s essay speaks to the &… |
Sequence 12-------------------------------- --~ we are attempting to do with the Erdkinder project in Cleveland is to bring farm and… |
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 1Maria Montessori and Elise Braun presenting music at the International Congress, Rome, 1932. 68 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 24… |
Sequence 3Children do not listen in the so-called "grown-up manner," sitting quietly. They like to move with music.… |
Sequence 1Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 3from reading aloud around the fireplace in the evening for entertain- ment to multimedia entertainment centers in the family… |
Sequence 4This early discovery has continued to be a hallmark of the Montessori approach to child development. Dr. Montessori was… |
Sequence 10Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
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 18• human settlement and needs of settlement, including impact studies • evolution of the environment in relation to human… |
Sequence 25REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 6ofMontessori's. We have no direct evidence that Vygotsky read Montessori,butwedo know that a Montessori class was… |
Sequence 1OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,… |
Sequence 21ofMontessori's. We have no direct evidence that Vygotsky read Montessori,butwedo know that a Montessori class was… |
Sequence 50REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |