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Sequence 56organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
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 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 190example, I should discuss the Montessori method and its practical working with any student who asks me, I should not discuss… |
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 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 19When Maria Montessori set up her first class environment in San Lorenzo in 1907, there were many educational scholars who… |
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 51urgent need to come up with a model and a training concept for that model. But if it is not carefully designed, we would be… |
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 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 77THE NEED FOR EXPERIMENTATION But the process of perfecting all these expedients and devices, from the point of view of making… |
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 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 72At the same time, she identifies herself as a student of philosophy. She even translated an 1866 English edition of a book by… |
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 89SENSORY EDUCATION The sensorial materials are designed to attract children's a tten- tion, to "educate the… |
Sequence 90Isolation of a single quality in the material helps children focus their attention on the stimulus. In many exercises, the… |
Sequence 92Lesson," which was originally used by Seguin, to obtain the as- sociation between an object or quality and its… |
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 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 267The Montessori Erd- The Montessori Erdkinder, insofar as it kinder concept is far from a is a home away from home for the… |
Sequence 313students to apprentice themselves to master craftsmen, usually school employees or experts brought to the school for that… |
Sequence 318techniques of gardening. These courses eventually developed into multi-week excursions to the country, where fire-building,… |
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 150the Children's House, let them first know a friendly world, which they can love, admire, and feel at one with. Where they… |
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 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 92have their roots from different countries, from different peoples-I mean, there in America you should have an enormous number… |
Sequence 27heart each week. The stories can be folk tales but also may link to the exploration of the world itself, nature or animals.… |
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 276New Jersey St. Martin's School, in Bridgewater, New Jersey will open in September 2006 and is seeking an Early… |
Sequence 325Gestalt Adolescent Psychology Pavlov Nature vs. Nurture Skinner Operant Conditioning Dewey Open School Erickson Eight… |
Sequence 47operating, upon occasion, at the most advanced level of functioning, although perhaps done at a pre-conscious level. It has… |
Sequence 146living, as well as deeper choices that may have lasting effects upon our lives and the lives of others. Daniel Pekarsky… |
Sequence 167Pekarsky, Daniel. "The Role of Culture in Moral Develop- ment." Parenthood in America. Conference… |
Sequence 42perhaps in booklet form, and the project might be repeated at other schools that did not participate in the original study.… |