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Sequence 3them? And once that decision has been made, how do fifth graders become storytellers? An incident from the first year of the… |
Sequence 35Egan, K. (1987). Literacy and the oral foundations of educa- tion. Harvard Educational Review, 57, 445-472. Egan, K. (1989).… |
Sequence 25chemicals is obviously an attempt to recapture some of the qualities of optimal experience by artificial means. Alcohol,… |
Sequence 30Healy, J. (1990). Endangered minds: Why children don't think and what we can do about it. New York: Touchstone/Simon… |
Sequence 7But before we do that, let me talk a little bit about what these activities are like. After I did these original interviews,… |
Sequence 15religion, etc. So the question is, to what extent is the field in your organization open to change? Sometimes a discipline or… |
Sequence 24As they grew up in adolescence, almost all of these people felt, of course, marginal, because they did not conform to the… |
Sequence 13the children applaud-they seem to be so delighted with this period of silence they impose on themselves. MUTUAL Am AND… |
Sequence 37• Use the "gentling the violence" technique, developed by a Hungarian woman named Magda Gerber, who founded… |
Sequence 38Branden, N. (1997). The art of living consciously. New York: Simon & Schuster. Briggs, D.C. (1970). Your child's… |
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 11So with medicine. The first recognition would be that there cannot be well humans on a sick planet. The way to human well-… |
Sequence 14The Psalms which reflect lamentation and thanksgiving might be seen as part of the cultivation side of the dyad. As injustice… |
Sequence 24particular case, the teacher was talking about the invasion of China by Genghis Khan in 1213 and how Genghis Khan moved down… |
Sequence 30is because children will enjoy and live more fully and fulfill their potentials. But also because they are more likely to… |
Sequence 5culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
Sequence 4which evolves on its own terms. Like the child, as human culture grows with the passage of time, it becomes more conscious of… |
Sequence 3where we - d with t and spi• At the time, Dr. Montessori and I cer- tainly felt the inner burden of the situation. It was… |
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 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 1Kodaikanal, India THE KooAIKANAL EXPERIENCE: KAHN-MONTESSORI INTERVIEW by David Kahn David Kahn: You once alluded to… |
Sequence 17us listen to the words of Maria Montessori, for she is reminding us that if we can do what we have just been saying, We find… |
Sequence 2THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURES: THE MONTESSORI CONTRIBUTION by Winfried Bohm translated by Devan Barker In this masterful… |
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 7ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 13REFERENCES Aries, P. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1962. Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal… |
Sequence 13community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 23REFERENCES Alston, P., ed. The Best Interests of the Child: Reconciling Culture and Human Rights. Florence, Italy:… |
Sequence 16encode (write) multiple forms of representation creates opportunities for activating, developing, and refining our minds. We… |
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 5Cavalletti had taken Hebrew classes with Zolli and, after earning her doctorate, became his colleague. He is well-known… |
Sequence 22Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 14If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
Sequence 2THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE by Brian Swimme Edited by Connie Barlow This article portrays the… |
Sequence 6in the year 1000, we find a series of settlements around the planet with a smaller number of hunter-gatherer bands that are… |
Sequence 4made with the invention of writing, but even so, the accumulation of knowledge remained painfully slow over centuries of time… |
Sequence 20Montessori, Mario. The Human Tendencies and Montessori Education. Amsterdam: Association Montessori lnternationale, 1966.… |
Sequence 9Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 20Finally, and most important, Montessori demanded humility and careful clinical observation on the part of the teacher. She had… |
Sequence 26Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. New York: Stokes, 1939. Orem, R.C., ed. Montessori: Her Method and the… |
Sequence 21Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the… |
Sequence 4HISTORY Of course, Maria Montessori' s work encountered detractors from the beginning 1 . Close on the heels of her… |
Sequence 14DeVries, R. "Constructing Excellence." 1S'h Missouri Con- ference of the Young Years: Constructing… |
Sequence 13DeVries, R. "Constructing Excellence." 1S'h Missouri Con- ference of the Young Years: Constructing… |
Sequence 23HISTORY Of course, Maria Montessori' s work encountered detractors from the beginning 1 . Close on the heels of her… |
Sequence 28Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the… |
Sequence 49Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. New York: Stokes, 1939. Orem, R.C., ed. Montessori: Her Method and the… |
Sequence 145Finally, and most important, Montessori demanded humility and careful clinical observation on the part of the teacher. She had… |
Sequence 184Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 193Montessori, Mario. The Human Tendencies and Montessori Education. Amsterdam: Association Montessori lnternationale, 1966.… |
Sequence 209made with the invention of writing, but even so, the accumulation of knowledge remained painfully slow over centuries of time… |
Sequence 22Q: Do you think that a child absorbed in a video game is in Flow? A: Yes, they can be in Flow, and usually they stay in Flow… |
Sequence 18moment in time for all time. It is time that has significance for all times and all people. It is a moment in time to be… |
Sequence 19[Interview with Donald Brownlee]. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune February 5, 2000. Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in… |
Sequence 12Every staff person at Lake Country School will tell you that they have met the noble adolescent. Every adolescent guide who… |
Sequence 12If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 27brain and spinal cord of mammals a very, very long time ago, and had endowed the monkey's limbs with assured, acrobatic… |
Sequence 28Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 23reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 5explores the whys and the wherefores of the universe, using the keys given with the elementary environment and employing his… |
Sequence 8Thanks to Charlene Trochta, Charlotte Kovach Shea, Carol Alver, Sanford Jones; thanks to David Kahn and everyone else who… |
Sequence 30way to envision the related processes of education and human devel- opment. The synthesis of these perspectives also provides… |
Sequence 31Csikszentmihalyi, M., & B.Schneider. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 32Koch, S., & D. Leary, eds. A Century of Psychology as Scie11ce. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Lerner, R. 011 the… |
Sequence 23REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 21• 4 merges= 16 units (from 400 to SOO neurons, a 25% increase) Therefore, it takes a 150% increase to pass beyond the two-word… |
Sequence 5symbol employed to convey formally the experience of time, change, and motion-all three synthesized in a word simply named the… |
Sequence 29CELEBRATING WRITING: PUBLISHING STUDENT WORK Celebrating student work by publishing it is one of the most exciting… |
Sequence 2emerge from this collective sharing. There is no fantasy or real person somewhere out there to tell us whether we are on or… |
Sequence 1PART II The observation of nature has not only a side that is philosophical and scientific, it has also a side of social… |
Sequence 19you 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 1Joosten: You say that the first-year children may not be able to manage more than four and a half days. You also are a mother… |
Sequence 8A difficulty, certainly felt in Europe-but in this country too-is the anxiety related to curriculum: that students might not… |
Sequence 24intellectually and culturally accountable (tiichtig). They were to "think clearly, experience deeply, and desire… |
Sequence 28techniques of gardening. These courses eventually developed into multi-week excursions to the country, where fire-building,… |
Sequence 29ideas of Erdkinder out of this milieu is the thesis that the documenta- tion in this paper seeks to demonstrate. She as much… |
Sequence 18ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
Sequence 13in their own work replicate the spirit that motivates us here at Lamberene." A.S. Neill, in a conversation with Pat… |
Sequence 8HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 2"Life at the Farm" as a theme for their dance. But an interesting thing happened that we didn't expect… |
Sequence 3lives. This Duke was good at what he did. Very good. He was also my father. He had everything, except a wife. She died when I… |
Sequence 4Church, and I wanted a change. The castle walls were like cages: cold, dark, and dull. He gathered his armies and I gathered… |
Sequence 12in the sequence of activities, stronger mentoring relationships and community ties, and multifaceted tasks and problems that… |
Sequence 1brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 2Erikson, E. H. Young Man Luther. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958. Gardner, H. Creating Minds. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 2forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a… |
Sequence 21A). As I said, most drugs tend to fall into Category C, which basically relieves the drug company of responsibility. Still,… |
Sequence 15they know all the people don't care anyway, so they can do what they want or maybe give token attention to that little… |
Sequence 19Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 2TEACHING NATURE: FROM PHILOSOPHY TO PRACTICE by David Hutchison David Hutchison looks at educational resistance to nature… |
Sequence 11"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an… |
Sequence 6with agriculture, it was possible now for some people to say, "OK, I don't have to farm,I don't have to… |
Sequence 12learn and do a lot, but of course most farm kids don't expect to be farmers. They want to go so mew here else, so even… |
Sequence 36REFERENCES Ames, C. "Classrooms: Goals, Structures, and Student Motivation." Journal of Educational… |
Sequence 37of Human Development. Ed. R.M. Lerner. New York: Wiley, 1998. Vol. 1 of Handbook of Child PsychologiJ, Wil- liam Damon, ed.-… |
Sequence 39Juvonen, J., & K. Wentzel, eds. Social Motivation: Under- standing Children's School Adjustment. New York: Cam-… |
Sequence 35Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken… |
Sequence 11This clear separation would help communication both within the adult Montessori community and also with the world at large.… |
Sequence 4only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |