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Sequence 18mances on these two very different measures. The Stanford-Binet was administered by an independent psychometrician to 19 of… |
Sequence 5Praxis refers to the different uses of words. Praxis involves aware- ness of different parts of speech, for example,open the… |
Sequence 10Montessori insists on constructing an environment for the child in which the child can be active, a prepared environment with… |
Sequence 16Gordon, E. E. (1990). A music learning theory for newborn and young children. Chicago: GIA. Madaule, P. (1994). When… |
Sequence 1NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 10One other factor to mention briefly is the quality of parent- adolescent interaction that I saw and heard about after two… |
Sequence 12The "Blue Plane" of Maturity The plane of maturity, 18 to 24, corresponds more or less to university life,… |
Sequence 6In substance, they reflect the general attitude of 19th-cen- tury science, which felt justi- fied in proclaiming, in all… |
Sequence 24element in playparks and adventure playgrounds. In new or redevel- oped school buildings, field facilities should be provided… |
Sequence 12The Center for Socratic Practice The Judson Montessori School 705 Trafalgar San Antonio, Texas 78216 (210) 344-3117… |
Sequence 2something or get some assistance in a store, I am reminded of this. It seems that adults think that if teenagers are in a… |
Sequence 1EVALUATING EXPERIENCES IN ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Gebhardt-Seele asserts that the development of… |
Sequence 6We may summarize this list by speaking of the harmonizing of the child's personality. Any With the Erdkinder model we… |
Sequence 14the modes of self-expression. For example, John McNamara's inte- grated use of the computer for science, writing, and… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Dewey, J. (1956). The school and society (Combined edition with The child and the curriculum). Chicago: U of… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous. New York: Pan- theon Books. Coles, R. (1990). The spiritual life of… |
Sequence 25chemicals is obviously an attempt to recapture some of the qualities of optimal experience by artificial means. Alcohol,… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
Sequence 21good and bad in your painting-then you will be able to persevere even without external recognition, external reward. But you… |
Sequence 4tion becomes possible if there are activities that are appropriate to the child. Activities need to catch interest, bring… |
Sequence 5As educators, we have several things to do: 1. Limit everything that is not "person." The right limits are… |
Sequence 1THE GROWTH OF COMPLEXITY: SHAPING MEANINGFUL LIVES by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Reed Larson As an outgrowth of Dr.… |
Sequence 18At least some of the teenagers in this study were demonstrating that they understood the requirements of growth. They had… |
Sequence 7about intellectual development at all, but deal more broadly with the kind of people we hope children will turn out to be,… |
Sequence 6principle is embodied in the Cyl- inder Block, where there are ten cylinders and ten holes into which they fit. The… |
Sequence 4another more spiritual realm. Maria Montessori said, "creative work ... lifts man up from earth and transports him… |
Sequence 8But the mind must have something to express. Imagination rests on facts and on information which have accumulated in some… |
Sequence 9many choices for self-expres- sion. Different children are attracted to different forms of art. How many of us engage the… |
Sequence 1PART II THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION Since it has been seen to be necessary to give so much to the child, let us give him a vision… |
Sequence 3THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION CONFERENCE: TAKING THE JOURNEY BACK HOME by Kathleen Allen and Gerard Leonard Kathleen Allen and… |
Sequence 7What, then, is the central human issue of culture, viewed scien- tifically, within the Epic of Evolution? It is the issue of… |
Sequence 8body the cosmos in their own person as well as in the structures they create in bioregions such as subsistence activities and… |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 7agency of genes, which contain the program for the development of structures and functions within the biological organism.… |
Sequence 10Now is there any kind of guidance among the various scenarios of the future that we may or may not endorse through our… |
Sequence 14transmitted and becomes more and more complex. We get mortars and pestles and then stone grinding mills and all of that-just… |
Sequence 23, o man peor>.le, suggests the more complicatecJ, se simplicity actually plex t~an a complf. plicatecf Idea or a et… |
Sequence 1SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK AND THE CHILD by Mario M. Montessori edited by Renilde Montessori Last month, in Edinburgh, Professor A.J… |
Sequence 1/J~ ---------------------- MONTESSORI EDUCATION: p AST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE by David Kahn In 1998, Renilde Montessori… |
Sequence 11• Children as young as ten or eleven being involved in rape • Ten-or eleven-year-olds taking heroin and other drugs. Another… |
Sequence 2PREPARING OURSELVES TO SEE THE TRUE NATURE OF THE CHILD by Lynne Lawrence Lynne 1..Awrence describes the fundamental… |
Sequence 1REVISITING THE PROCESS OF NORMALIZATION by Rita Schaefer Zener Rita Zener' s description of normalization is from the… |
Sequence 1THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGAGEMENT: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS by Jeremy Paul Hunter Jeremy Hunter's paper reveals for the first… |
Sequence 2MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE by Edward Warburton Givingduecredit toMontessori'sholisticeducation,… |
Sequence 4What does the Meno tell us? The Meno tells us about Socrates' visit to his friend Menon. On this visit, he has a… |
Sequence 2THE HISTORY OF THE CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD by Tina Lillig Ms. Lillig gives a concise histonJ of the Catechesis of… |
Sequence 10AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 9And if we complain that the elements of our liturgy have lost their savor because we are no longer an agrarian culture, then… |
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 7"Let us give the child a vi- sion of the whole uni verse. The universe is an imposing real- ity, and an answer to… |
Sequence 22Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 25qualitative enhancement? In that case, death would be a personal movement toward deeper participation in God's own… |
Sequence 1t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA… |
Sequence 16It is true that when the art- ist is in action, he may function in three ways simultaneously. In teaching, however, we… |
Sequence 2THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE by Brian Swimme Edited by Connie Barlow This article portrays the… |
Sequence 16Light Expanding, Radiant Rushing, Giving, Receiving It burns in all of us, The Giver REFERENCES Cajete, Greg. Look to the… |
Sequence 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
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 2they knew that there was more than Practical Life, Art Expression, Spoken Language, and Music. But the materials got there… |
Sequence 4The implications are these: l. respect for the child's capacity and abilities; 2. change in attitude about Practical… |
Sequence 6Teachers need to recognize and to help parents recognize that love of the environment cannot happen in the abstract. Empathy… |
Sequence 8The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
Sequence 23with the students excerpts of Maria Montessori' s To Educate the Human Potential.) This is not to make the Erdkinder… |
Sequence 3Creative expression-what's that? I propose this definition: generating a product that is valued in a cultural context (… |
Sequence 46Creative expression-what's that? I propose this definition: generating a product that is valued in a cultural context (… |
Sequence 76with the students excerpts of Maria Montessori' s To Educate the Human Potential.) This is not to make the Erdkinder… |
Sequence 116The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
Sequence 118Teachers need to recognize and to help parents recognize that love of the environment cannot happen in the abstract. Empathy… |
Sequence 138The implications are these: l. respect for the child's capacity and abilities; 2. change in attitude about Practical… |
Sequence 177they knew that there was more than Practical Life, Art Expression, Spoken Language, and Music. But the materials got there… |
Sequence 185cooked 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 224The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 10ognize each other as individuals and "have a reciprocal feeling for each other's worth" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 14If the environment is warm and safe, however, and if adults deal "sweetly and kindly" with them (Montessori… |
Sequence 3If the seeds are sown in the elementary years, they take root in the place of the adolescent years. The important… |
Sequence 12Erica: I am so lucky to be living, and living in such a great place. Studying the Hubbell Telescope though has made me think… |
Sequence 23reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 3Montessori continues in To Educate the Human Potential: The child of six who has been in a Montessori school has the… |
Sequence 15that adolescents have very few opportunities to gain experiences that might translate into future careers. By the end of high… |
Sequence 4scheduling practice, and assessing levels of achievement, as a teacher usually does, the guide, based on his or her knowledge… |
Sequence 16that-all in one word, which we don't do in English. We tend to depend much more on syntax or word order or stringing… |
Sequence 33have seen it in my own children. My third child is actually probably the slowest with language of any of them, but he's… |
Sequence 6sentence, or a short paragraph that describes, defines, or highlights an experience in the environment.Descriptive labels for… |
Sequence 9something that's a sign that's inevitably linked to a particular occa- sion, like traffic lights at intersections,… |
Sequence 13The trees The ancient guards The silent watchers They follow me with eyes unseen And that silence That terrible silence,… |
Sequence 1PROCESS WRITING: FINDING FLOW IN ADOLESCENT SELF-EXPRESSION by Kim Kinzer-Brackbill Process writing has been a mainstay for… |
Sequence 9· It paraphrased Montessori on the psychological characteris- tics of the adolescent. • It emphasized the development of the… |
Sequence 16THE CULTURE OF CIVILITY: THE COHESION OF THE SOCIAL COMMUNITY by Pat Ludick Comparing the common characteristics between… |
Sequence 8I am reminded of the truth of these comments every year. The fact is that adults, in general, don't like this age. Many… |
Sequence 2And adolescents need to engage in real work that they see as important to others, to their community of peers or to the larger… |
Sequence 18Personal Conflict Narratives Let me read to you some of the beginnings of these stories so that you can get an idea of some… |
Sequence 13• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 1exercise his mental powers. Instruction is considered the on! y goal in secondary school, but what sort of instruction? What… |
Sequence 3WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 7microcosm. They re- semble a child's aquarium. In his au- tobiography, Loren Eiseley writes that his most important… |
Sequence 19and basic algebra. Therefore, the next stage of mathematics must use and develop this power of abstraction. The second… |
Sequence 12. Lay down a baseline and measure it as accurately as possible and precisely as necessary. This is the most important stage… |
Sequence 19bottom line pressures? From journalistic sensationalism or the patenting of genetic breakthroughs, some prac- tices that… |
Sequence 1brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 2ATTACHMENT PARENTING: A STYLE THAT w ORKS by William Sears It is important to fully explore the questions of attachment and… |