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Sequence 126EDITORIAL: AMI MONTESSORI: BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Kahn We are in the turmoil of becoming. And as one undergoes the… |
Sequence 85COSMIC EDUCATION: SOWING LIFE, NOT THEORIES by David Kahn This is an attempt to clarify the role of Cosmic Education in… |
Sequence 67minutes of testing each month. Results showed that the cultural model consistently outperformed the Montessori model and the… |
Sequence 68The research took place in the Clavis Montessori Head Start centers staffed by Montessori teachers in Fullerton and Costa Mesa… |
Sequence 15GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING: KNOWING OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER by Edwin Delattre Delattre's wide range of human experience,… |
Sequence 64complex civilizations that the Mexican philosopher and educator Jose Vasconcelos dubbed them "the cosmic race.&… |
Sequence 75MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND CHILDREN PLACED AT RISK OF SCHOOL FAILURE by Christopher Harris Mr. Harris' short but… |
Sequence 26ethnic groups struggling for popular control over the schools. In the midst of ugly strike and turmoil, there appeared quiet… |
Sequence 179understood better through discussions of bonding, and attachment, and so forth. And so they began to see that here was another… |
Sequence 7strides they had touched che outer limits of che universe, they painted their timdines, collected fossils and rocks of… |
Sequence 77Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the lase… |
Sequence 11MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 115To use more familiar language, the divine arts are theology and related studies. The liberal arts (traditionally classified as… |
Sequence 168This will always stick in my mind: two men, talking about two black, disabled soldiers who had not been shot by the enemy but… |
Sequence 15Around six, the child un- dergoes a greattransfor- mation. He is now no longer satisfied with the society of his family and… |
Sequence 111Reading, seminars, field experiences, journaling, interviewing, and expository and creative writing are integrated into this… |
Sequence 12of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every… |
Sequence 121disturbing the other's sleep and, more importanl, how to comfort each other when one awoke in the middle of the night out… |
Sequence 91900 1910 1920 1930 1980 1990 Timeline of Montessori Adolescent Programs 1907: Casadei Bambini founded In Rome early… |
Sequence 183Rist, R. (1970). Social class and teacher expectations: The self- fulfilling prophecy in ghetto education. Harvard Educational… |
Sequence 203IN MEMORIAM NANCY McCORMICK RAMBUSCH 1927-1994 Nancy McCormick Rambusch,founder of the American Montessori Society, died of… |
Sequence 28for the most part, dependent upon the opinions and decisions of teachers and school administrators in determining the… |
Sequence 59GROUNDS FOR CHANGE: LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES IN BRITAIN by Bill Lucas There are more than 30,000 schools in Britain.… |
Sequence 78need to return to Montessori's writing-particularly From Childhood to Adolescence and Education and Peace. But it was… |
Sequence 13MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys… |
Sequence 17and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 21A DAY WITH DR. MARIA MONTESSORI AND HER YouTHFUL CHARGES Is AN EYE-OPENER FOR THE AVERAGE p ARENT by Frederick R. Hinkle… |
Sequence 48Established in 1961, Alcuin is a parent- owned, not-for-profit, state of Illinois recognized school located in a pictur-… |
Sequence 228century, no scientist or philosopher any longer believed in the idea of linear development during the prenatal period, in the… |
Sequence 239MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 58"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 139parison with this all-too-frequent condition, the total involvement of flow is experienced as rewarding. Our studies over the… |
Sequence 141THE CONSEQUENCES OF FLOW There are many reasons why experiencing flow is beneficial. Per- haps the most important is also the… |
Sequence 195THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: A MODEL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE by Rexford Brown Dr. Brown first highlights the ways in which a… |
Sequence 197designed to meet new needs, it becomes increasingly isolated from its clients or customers. Broken into tiny subunits where… |
Sequence 254Supportive administration as well as primary and lower elementary staff. Small class size, beautiful cam- pus setting,… |
Sequence 220area is ranked among the best places in the nation to live and do business. Durham ("City of Medicine," USA… |
Sequence 225Q: How do we make what we have to offer as teachers or as parents valued? As Montessori teachers or as Montessorians, how do… |
Sequence 255digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 60Yes, there are innumerable agriculturists, gardeners, sweepers, grave diggers that keep order upon the earth so that nature… |
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 149in other words, who had been deeply scarred by the war, injured in both body and soul. 6 Other types of institutions have… |
Sequence 175The adolescent is a social embryo, so your prepared environ• ment must be what society is all about, in the context of the… |
Sequence 207Anyone planning to involve children in a community participation project should be prepared to answer such questions as… |
Sequence 249MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco… |
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 47Listening to poetry is art unto itself. Like listening to jazz or opera, it involves both a disciplined listening and a deep… |
Sequence 74Children do not listen in the so-called "grown-up manner," sitting quietly. They like to move with music.… |
Sequence 110Though the discovery of cosmic and terrestrial evolution has involved humans from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and can… |
Sequence 39It was Maria Montessori' s insight that the child had within an "inner teacher" that dictated a &… |
Sequence 71First a little political and geographical orientation: Romania is an Eastern European country. It is surrounded by the Black… |
Sequence 83This documented history was so absorbing that the chil- dren became entirely possessed by the situations. They started… |
Sequence 58COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 201Documenting Montessori expansion in North America, NAMTA has suggested since 1992 that further program design needs to be… |
Sequence 114Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was… |
Sequence 153written material, discussion, and a variety of field experi- ences. Each student will: • Read Travels with Charley, by John… |
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 310all contributed to a spirit of reevalua tion and reform in education that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century… |
Sequence 331Marchetti, Maria Teresa. "La scuola per gli adolescenti- IJI." Vita del/'lnfanzia 2.3 (1953) 7+.… |
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 531that assessed the ability to discriminate various tastes, smells, sounds, and textures, the study found that these individuals… |
Sequence 556Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 8forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 256teacher to begin anew lower elemen- tary classroom. MSHR is in the heart of Cleveland's "Little Italy"… |
Sequence 218holistic, or even naturalistic values that fly in the face of disciplinary thinking. Science, geography, history, and other… |
Sequence 8Let me explain, very briefly, how I entered the Montessori world and how this experience changed deeply my personal and profes… |
Sequence 49foJlowed by the genius. His characteristics are absorbed attention, a profound concentration which isolates him from all the… |
Sequence 59Philosophy of the Winnetka Curriculum, 1926); and those of two of Montessori's pupils: Makinden (Individual Work System)… |
Sequence 68Montessori, Maria. Spontaneous Activity in Education. 1916. Trans. Florence Simmonds. New York: Schocken, 1965. Vol. 1 of The… |
Sequence 91seriations, for instance in regard to the stature of children of the same race, sex and age but of opposite social conditions… |
Sequence 150tacked what she saw as general abuses of this human faculty: sixty years ago (in The Advanced Montessori Method) she denounced… |
Sequence 190been lacking: the very environment which constitutes the keystone for an Erdkinder community experiment. 5. PAST EXPERIENCE… |
Sequence 211INTRODUCTION TO MARIO M. MoNTESSORI's uSYNTROPY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH" by Camillo Grazzini Syntropy is a… |
Sequence 245Above and beyond Marconi and Marconi's amazing invention, Maria Montessori is moved by the grandeur of the human being… |
Sequence 246invisible causes of a mysterious kind of communication, that nonetheless transport the actual voice of Man and the thoughts… |
Sequence 19the newness, by all the stimuli that overwhelm our lives today. When a baby is overstimulated there is generally one of two… |
Sequence 179Because of our human tendency to perfection, we adults struggle to find the perfect solution, the perfect time, the perfect… |
Sequence 211children, the Swedish and the Jewish school, as well as a few Catholic schools for the children of Tamil families. How was… |
Sequence 217With their boundless energy they questioned, explored and experimented in all areas of culture. The small botani- cal garden… |
Sequence 41criticism which does not stem from experimentation or even reflection. People just reacted against and criticized. I found a… |
Sequence 398self-sufficiency. The adolescent attempts to find a base for a multifac- eted independence, but the greatest of all… |
Sequence 428subplanes of parent-infant class, infant, and toddler (ages birth to three), preschool (ages three to six); lower elementary… |
Sequence 26such an ethic is often heavy-handed preaching about the imminent demise of the planet. Such information definitely has its… |
Sequence 18Early in September, 1898, Italy and its educational establishment were rocked when an Italian anarchist assassinated Elizabeth… |
Sequence 28THE LIGHT OF THE CHILD by Dr. Maria Montessori First published in 1957 by AMT inn special booklet com111e111orating fifty… |
Sequence 14Italy, continued Writing on che chalkboard, an early Italian Montessori school, dote unknown. "They revealed a… |
Sequence 15Sometimes very tiny children show a precocious skill and accuracy of movement that must arouse our wonder. If an environment… |
Sequence 174Correspondence, continued - ...... .. ... //- -··- :;:~: ., -..:_ ::-:~··.:::~ -✓- .,; .,._,. 6 ..P… |
Sequence 76The specifics, however, depend greatly on the values of the child's parents and society. If a family and culture,… |
Sequence 180Latin or Greek, a sort of formal stream-of-consciousness prose with little punctuation-in written manuscript form, not even… |
Sequence 256The meeting was crowded with medical people, educators and teachers. Europe and the world were stil I under the cloud and the… |
Sequence 339Here's the kick ending. "To ensure moral salvation, it is primariJ y necessary to depend on oneself, because in… |
Sequence 10This is why an integration of the special needs child in a class of normal children is possible. Montessori tells us that It… |
Sequence 114practice tl1e skills site was /eami11g, and to 111ake a real co11trib11tio11 to her co11111111nity me111bers. Iliad allowed… |
Sequence 94These words are simple and deep, but clear enough for an older elementary child to grasp. Other areas of creative endeavor in… |
Sequence 214plines. We need to con- centrate on the per- sonal story as it relates to the adolescent, by including subjective The plan… |
Sequence 66I think the best example is language. Yes, as Judi mentioned, children can become bilingual or trilingual, but there is a… |
Sequence 52John Dewey, the American philosopher, has a very interesting idea. He says, if you want to know what is going on, one way to… |
Sequence 53may that teacher training continues to be dominated by that theory, which now I must name: the theory of behaviorism, which… |
Sequence 601 understand in the U.S. a lot more than elsewhere. A late discov- ery is that children's attention span is getting… |