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NAMTA Journal 12/1 06 Transition: Urban Montessori Secondary to Erdkinder

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"The child in the elementary is learning to organize and plan his day, has more control over when he is going to do…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 02 A Montessori Cultural Environment with Southeast Asian Refugee Children

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A MONTESSORI MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH SOUTHEAST ASIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN by Mw-iel W Adcock Ms. Adcock's…
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Another issue of particular importance was language. Within the classroom the children spoke Vietnamese, Laotian, Chinese,…
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The adults soon realized that the children's response was indeed substantial; concentration and independence began to…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 09 Research: Starting at Birth and Teaching New Mothers

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with familiar ones at first, but the proportion of unfamiliar patterns was to be increased until the child could imitate…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 14 Feature: One World, One Drum

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ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 10 A Selection of Children's Books for Montessorians

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A SELECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR MONTESSORIANS By Charlene S. Trochta Twenty-Five Favorites: Some New, Some Old…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 09 Darwinism Defined: The Difference between Fact and Theory

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understand the past, but don't pretend to predict the future. We can't see past processes directly, but learn to…

NAMTA Journal 13/3 06 Research of Cognitive/Intellectual Development

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Dependent variables in the study were the motor skill of eye-hand co-ordination, visual perception skills of figure ground and…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 01 Montessori Education: Interactive Idea for Human Understanding

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that is overwhelming for the moment? (Elicits the collaboration of the group) Sarah: Individualizing, Lois-have you tried…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 06 Class Discussion: A Scenario for The Trivium

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immediately oversee the development of these arts in the relations between the student discussants, while simultaneously…
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to discourse daily about virtue and self-examination. But he finally proposes a small money offering· guaranteed by his…
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feelings of others. Why couldn't he pursue his mission and still be accepted by others? Seems to me he'd have a…
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Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money, power and fame are evils, as Socrates says. Mr. B: I…
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Ms. A: Yes, that's why oratory would fail too. Even a speech in a grand style would fail where experience and feelings…
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Ms. A: Well, man does some things that don't require a body. Leader: Such as ... Ms. A: We think. And therefore thinking…
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seeking martyrdom by not saving himself? Or is there a real opposition between surviving in Athens and obeying the gods? In…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 07 Montessori and Suzuki

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Lillard, Paula Polk. (1972) Mant.essori a modern approach. New York: Schocken Books. Orem, R.C. (1974) Montessori her method…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 01 The Montessori Contribution to Educational Reform—A Prologue

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References Brown, Rexford G. ( 1991). Schools of thought: How the politics of litera,cy shape thinking in the classroom. San…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 15 Change and Restructuring

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But I think that these more basic issues of working on collaboration, working on redefining the role of the teacher, on…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 11 What is Meet us in Alexandria?

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Asians, Egyptians, Indians, Europeans, Syrians, Armenians, and Arabs. The students encounter Alexandrian mathematics, physics…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 08 The Intellectual Lives of Teachers

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Had the faculty done the right kind of homework and thought clearly about the words they were using and encouraging their…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 06 Literature and Grammar

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the t i n ings ngl o- fY, au & f>eau ng is po- ttry, tincf:'from the p f other na- tions, f…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 03 Montessori Adolescent Education: Toward an Emerging Framework

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The danger of textbooks is that their similitude, their averaging of information, their limited scholarship, and their lack of…
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NAMTA Journal 19/1 07 Characteristics of Students' Imaginative Lives, Ages Eight to Fifteen

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The capacity to heighten significance and enlarge meaning by thinking about events "romantically" can be…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 09 Claude Claremont's Contribution to the History of Science and Engineering

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The elementary student is especially sensitive to historical context. The sense of time and duration crystallizes out of a…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 01 World Montessori: Renewal through Cooperation

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WORLD MONTESSORI: RENEWAL THROUGH COOPERATION by David Kahn What is the task confronting education? It is above all the task…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 02 Maria Montessori and the "Glass House"

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MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys…
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these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"…
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In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,…
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lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 09 Evolution as Philosophy and Action

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The great work for the child, as for all humans, is to become a conscious collabo- rator with the unfolding of the universe…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 04 Flow and Creativity

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excavating ruins and describing how to build. The techniques, the skills, the information about building and sculpting were…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 07 The Epic of Evolution Conference: Taking the Journey Back Home

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THE RESURGENCE OF COSMIC STORYTELLERS by Brian T. Swimme Brian Swimme' s insight into the Story of the Universe…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 12 The Origins of Agrarianism and the Development of the Self

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exploitation somewhat irrelevant. If it costs just $3 to rent a Pocahontas video, do you really care if Michael Eisner made $…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 13 Emerging Psychological Characteristics of Farm Life

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the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 10 The Importance of Engagement: A Preliminary Analysis

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Maslow, Abraham H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. NY: Viking, 1971. Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. Trans.…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 16 Maria Montessori: A Learner Taught by Children

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MARIA MONTESSORI: A LEARNER TAUGHT BY CHILDREN by Robert G. Buckenmeyer In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to San Francisco…
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phenomenon have more disas- trous effects than in education. Teachers have the best inten- tions, but best intentions kill…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 02 Discovering the Real Spiritual Child (Part 1)

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I wish you to enjoy the vision of the human being in the first season of life, blossoming at the warmth of a Person, or of a…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 08 Science and Faith: Maria Montessori's Principles of Education

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the teacher and the scientist an Apostolic spirit. This Apostolic spirit sees not only the spirit of study about the child but…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 10 Cosmos, History, and the Human Spirit

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The Last Bargain "Come and hire me," I cried, while in the morning I was walking on the stone-paved road.…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 11 The Spiritual Challenge of Erdkinder – Part 1: The Passage from Imaginative Vision to Concrete Experience

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-------------------------------- --~ we are attempting to do with the Erdkinder project in Cleveland is to bring farm and…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 12 Ecology and Human Destiny

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the ecological sense of our connection to the cosmos and other genera- tions of living beings. Our own personal destiny cannot…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 09 The Cultural Significance of the Story of the Universe

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THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE by Brian Swimme Edited by Connie Barlow This article portrays the…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 02 The Casa Dei Bambini: A Century Concept

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In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 09 The Child and the Natural Environment

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Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 10 Pedagogy of Place: Becoming Erdkinder, The Montessori Program Design School, Program Design Position…

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• human settlement and needs of settlement, including impact studies • evolution of the environment in relation to human…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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• human settlement and needs of settlement, including impact studies • evolution of the environment in relation to human…
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Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.…
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In 1915, Dr. Montessori traveled to California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. She…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 11 The Hand-Thought-Language Nexus

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THE HAND-THOUGHT-LANGUAGE NEXUS by Frank R. Wilson Frank Wilson's scholarly book depicts cognitive scientists and…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 05 The Montessori Farm School: Erdkinder Beginnings 2000

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PROTOTYPE YEAR J (HUMANITIES IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH FARM OCCUPATIONS) Architectural Principles in Buildings and Bridges…
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in our 1998 report on the project to the AMI Peda- gogical Committee, "The goal for us this year is to…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 14 Dr. Montessori's Third Lecture Given at the Montessori Congress in Oxford, England, 1936

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-Independent interdisciplinary study is begun in accordance with student's interest following the excursion. It would be…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 24 The Origins of Agrarianism and the Development of the Self

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critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 26 The Farm Experience: Its Importance in a Child's Life

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become a mechanic. They become less connected with the land. They use capital from off the farm to subsidize losses on the…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 29 What Does It mean To Study The Humanities in a Farm School Context?

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appearances. Jim provided on the farm support as farm manager. We keptthe focus pretty directed, with student choices…
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find their own identities as emerging social beings? Did conscious- ness create a bridge between how communities of people…
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In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on…
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was magical. Even for the most reticent students-who were very reluctant to get up and do it-it was a moment of triumph when…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 30 Occupations and the Farm

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My followers will surely continue without me. I just hope that they do not become victims of Epicureanism. As for the Stoics…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 11 Deep Ecology: Educational Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century

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synchrony. New experiences and understandings reconfigure these au tom a tic patterns. Learning is required when an en…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 08 The Elementary Child's Place in the Natural World

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CorneJ1, Joseph Bharat. Sharing Nature with Children: The Classic Parents' and Teachers' Nature Awareness Guide-…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 09 The Moral Development of Adolescents: A View from the Farm

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them through and onward, or at the very least, lie in wait until a fertile time when the memory of what they experienced with…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 09 The Adult Montessori School Community: Finding a Balance

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We are not alone. We cannot do everything. We can do many things. Thank you for your kind attention. REFERENCES Greenleaf,…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 08 From the Garden to the Farmhouse: Farm Life and Education for Children Under Six

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off the roof will be collected in large cisterns for watering the gardens and washing. We also chose to use straw bale…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 09 Deepening Cosmic Education

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to hold in our hearts and minds the big picture, and for the love of our children and the future, to keep our own fire of hope…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 12 The Adolescent: Taking on the Task of Humanity – Conducting the Dialogue Between Nature and Supranature

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work together, move forward in history. This is what the adolescent must experience and absorb: division of labor, the…

NAMTA Journal 31/3 02 Nature and Embodied Education: A Key Role for Montessori Research

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Louv, R. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2005. Martindale…

NAMTA Journal 32/3 01 The NAMTA Centenary Exhibit

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From Nova Scotia to San Francisco J Seated for lunch in the glass-walled classroom, Palace of Education and Social Economy,…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 07 A Brief Historical Preface to the Task of Curriculum Reform: A Personal and Therefore a Limited Report

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In comparison to even fifty years ago, let alone the time of Spinoza, no one can dispute the arrival of the enormous comfort…
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rupting the good principles of their original virtuous nature ... but the true, content mortal alone earns and cultivates…

NAMTA Journal 33/3 16 High School Humanities: Social Sciences, History, and Metacognition

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erism at a grand scale and new forms of freedom possible, industrial- ization also caused new inequalities and poverty, and…

NAMTA Journal 33/3 18 Implementing the Montessori High School Synthetizing Curriculum: A Beginning Approach

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· Origin of the city; comparison of Mesopotamian (anxiously walled in) and Egyptian (calm, ceremonial) cities; · Alexandria,…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 08 Montessori Approaches to the Classics for Elementary Study: The Keepers of Alexandria

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to keep track of all these scrolls. Each book might have multiple scrolls, and they all had to be numbered and organized.…

NAMTA Journal 34/3 14 The New Adolescent Ages 12-15 and 15-18: Optimal Roadmaps for Disciplines-Based Studies

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a lesson on some of these things that they've had before is kind of boring for them because there isno context for it. So…
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ma th /handbook/Teacher/ In trod uctoryExplorations / Introductory Exp I orations.asp>. Anderso11, Sherwood.…

NAMTA Journal 35/1 07 An Administrative Process for Vision by Consensus using Whole Systems Theory

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Berry, Thomas. "It Takes a Universe." Save the Hermitage. June 3, 2009 <https:/ /beholdnature.org/tbh…

NAMTA Journal 35/3 02 Montessori and the Building of Peace

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other ways. This child has grown into this environment where he knows it is to his benefit to look for all things that he…

NAMTA Journal 35/3 13 Montessori Elementary Education: Pathways to Global Understanding

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MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: PATHWAYS TO GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING by Phyllis Pettish-Lewis Phyllis Pottish-Lewis has…

NAMTA Journal 36/1 14 Initiation to the Knowledge that Is the Pride of Our Civilization

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Of the many cultures of humankind, of the plenitude of history's eras and their mass of pivotal artifacts, we reasoned…
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With the picture of Rome's history cradled in our cerebella, we move on to an overview of the orders of architecture,…

NAMTA Journal 37/1 02 A Montessori National Curriculum

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Montessori National Curriculum for the Third Plane of Development from Twelve to Fifteen/Sixteen Years Detailed studies:…

NAMTA Journal 37/1 05 Revolutions in Curriculum: Tenth Grade as a Turning Point and a Challenge at Montessori High School

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lution relative to place and time the adolescent could make come to life through the re-imagination of lives lived, using the…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 09 The Kodaikanal Experience: Chapter I. Kahn-Wikramaratne Interview

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88 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Kodaikanal. During the first two years with the chil- dren, we had made…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 14 Deepening Cosmic Education

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143 Leonard • Deepening Cosmic Education brought to their newly settled areas of the world. Elementary children love this…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 15 The Elementary Child's Place in the Natural World

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150 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Phoebe Allen received her elementary training in Bergamo, Italy, in 1974…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 17 The Resurgence of Cosmic Storytellers

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171 Swimme • The Resurgence of Cosmic Storytellers Courtesy of Brad Bachulis Dr. Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 18 The Adolescent: Taking on the Task of Humanity–Conducting the Dialogue between Nature and Supranature

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the adolescent: taKinG on the tasK of huManity— conductinG the dialoGue between nature and suPranature by Laurie Ewert-…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 19 Place and Pedagogy

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188 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 larger curriculum which would include the study of relationships between…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 21 Deep Ecology: Educational Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century

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215 Capra • Deep Ecology: Educational Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century in complex, real-world projects through…

NAMTA Journal 38/1 30 Epilogue: The Child and the Environment

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292 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Ewert-Krocker, Laurie, & David Kahn. “The Erd- “The Erd- kinder…
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292 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Ewert-Krocker, Laurie, & David Kahn. “The Erd- “The Erd- kinder…

NAMTA Journal 39/2 15 Reflections: A Life's Work in Montessori

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222 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 39, No. 2 • Spring 2014 in Tokyo, London, or San Francisco would instantly recognize the same…

NAMTA Journal 40/2 06 The Montessori Classroom: A Foundation for Global Citizenship

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109 Leonard • The Montessori Classroom humanity connects us; these are classroom essentials when we educate for peace. One…

NAMTA Journal 41/3 19 Attention

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369 Montessori • Attention the attention of children is the stumbling-block of their education. William James speaks of…

NAMTA Quarterly 01/1 09 Chaining Children with Drugs

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gist Francis M. Crinella of the Sonoma State Hospital in Eldridge, Cali• fornia, is among the dissenters: " ...…

NAMTA Quarterly 02/1 06 Literature and Grammar

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Claremont's Point of View: Literature and Grammar by Mrs. Francesca Claremont Transcribed and Edited by Jim and…

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