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Sequence 5CHAPTER 2 The Sensorial Richness of Prenatal Life The idea that nothing penetrates the uterus is definitely outmoded. The… |
Sequence 6intensity of the Montessori vision that makes the system work; knowl- edge of the materials is bound by the interiority of the… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 6stand. They would bring this back and take another which contained other pictures to which to apply other names. Experience… |
Sequence 1THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her… |
Sequence 6child can experience in nature that there is something eternal, present everywhere and always, which seems to have organized… |
Sequence 3scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The… |
Sequence 5observe her subjects in a holistic manner; consequently, her research was naturalistic or ethnographic. From her first… |
Sequence 6A critical factor in this study is what was measured. Bereiter did not measure what the Montessori program was teaching by the… |
Sequence 12Commentary The design and execution of this study is quite acceptable, but one criticism of the study would be the small… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 6References Banta, T.J. Tests for the evaluation of early childhood education: The Cincinnati Autonomy Test Battery (CATB). In… |
Sequence 1CLASS DISCUSSION A Scenario For The Trivium by Journet Kahn Dr. Kahn looks at the liberal arts of logic, grammm; and… |
Sequence 1OFT-TOLD TALES by David H. Millstone With Homer as thefr guide, Vermont elementary students spend six months in a voyage to… |
Sequence 63. The student demonstrates automatic execution of the skill. E.g: Can you tell me how "0 Come Little Children&… |
Sequence 5director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
Sequence 4conuibuted to her being somewhat ostracized by the scientific and educational establishment and her being labeled as "… |
Sequence 16promptings of the moral self, that erects obstacles and barriers in the way of the development of intelligence, that condemns… |
Sequence 10viva] of the fittest demands, safeguarding tradition in order to under- stand how co achieve social and technical skills… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 7achievements. Educated Victorians were more familiar with long-ago battles on the windy plains of Troy, the wooden horse, and… |
Sequence 9awful. I hated it," I answered firmly. I had a feeling that she would not appreciate that response. It turns out I… |
Sequence 3it a little, thus relieving them of responsibility for engaging in such a childish activity. Besides, they still enjoy being… |
Sequence 8kitchen. Adding section by section, piece by piece, they discovered the style pattern and saw that the repeats in Malory are… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 21by the husband. This cycle is found among the Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada as well as among the… |
Sequence 11logical characteristics and each needs a prepared adult to help the individual help himself. The four planes of development… |
Sequence 12product of a Casa dei Bambini and a Montessori elementary class which have followed vigorously Dr. Montessori's formula… |
Sequence 18of the race. And we have the adolescent to prove otherwise to us. "If we gave the world to the small child,"… |
Sequence 3of life when young people lhrive on real life experience and active involvement. And lhe adults seemed to the adolescent… |
Sequence 8This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 9and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is… |
Sequence 103and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is… |
Sequence 112Clay, M. (1991). Becoming literate: The construction of inner control. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Clay, M. (1993). Reading… |
Sequence 160This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 9the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 1THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
Sequence 11Once, long ago, more than 3,000 years before our time, on the island of Ithaca off the west coast of Greece, lived a king… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 5culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
Sequence 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 10want to use that word superiority, but Greek military prowess surely is a sign of cultural dynamism. In addition, diversified… |
Sequence 11them first to get the tangent taste out, and then you press them into olive oil. As for barley or wheat, you have to cut it… |
Sequence 14wore-that they would be absolutely formidable and terrifying against foreigners. Herodotus says that when the Persians met… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 24related but are slightly different, which we might term survival or entrepre- neurial. A: Absolutely. As I said I've… |
Sequence 2"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 1Child working with Botanical Cards, Laren, Holland, 1939 lO The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 23, No. 2 • Spring 1998 |
Sequence 2Laren, Holland THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori The Botanical Cards are one of the items of the Montessori… |
Sequence 9and "Where is the fruit?" Eventually we made several groups of envelopes which dealt with flowers and fruit… |
Sequence 2of creation should fashion that the e it but absorb it i h~y will feel that o lace to live in, a p ace w ere generosity… |
Sequence 8Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children… |
Sequence 8THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have… |
Sequence 1Margot Waltuch, Ada Montessori, and Mario Montessori Baarn, Holland, 1963 50 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 24, No. I • Winter 1999 |
Sequence 5She was a teacher, a leader, and a charismatic personality, but she was full of humanity and fun. She felt you could not live… |
Sequence 7ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 10several languages. His genuine kindness attracted them all. He under- stood the immense importance of their inner power, their… |
Sequence 10better still, to the value of work in general, "with its wide social connotations of productiveness and earning power… |
Sequence 1Silver polishing, Laren, Holland, 1948 16 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
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 184Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 226Silver polishing, Laren, Holland, 1948 16 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 5record of the life of the child in societies without writing. But we know that some must have grown to maturity; otherwise we… |
Sequence 17But as well as this material territory to be exposed to the child, with the ways in which man has come into contact with other… |
Sequence 12The four planes of development, as recognized by Dr. Montessori, are four stages, relatively equal in length, in the formation… |
Sequence 13Houses and Montessori elementary schools increase around the world, there will probably come about an increasing demand for… |
Sequence 20the stone gatherers and their geological discoveries, through the food gatherers and their botanical discoveries, through the… |
Sequence 27for humanity only if he is recognized as being the product of two earlier planes of development. Dr. Montessori recognized… |
Sequence 2emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane"… |
Sequence 11ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 1During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 10Attention Grabber The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss (New York: Random House, 1984), was read to the students. Yes, middle… |
Sequence 10I repeat the same thing about money in order that the immorality and error bound up with it may be destroyed, and we must… |
Sequence 5A NEW EDUCATION FOR THE SECONDARY SCHOOL A PUBLIC LECfURE GIVEN AT UTRECHT, JANUARY 18, 1937 (ORIGINAL IN FRENCH) by Maria… |
Sequence 16ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g… |
Sequence 20tessori children, to one day be able to have a Montessori Erdkinder. But be very active. It is better to do something than… |
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 3good as its criteria and the controls and the people executing the experiment must have clarity of vision. But anyone's… |
Sequence 4Joosten: I don't think there is a yes or a no. Is it either or? There is a blend. We can't go outside to an… |
Sequence 1The first objective is reached through experience with music, language, and "travaux artistiq11es" (drawing… |
Sequence 3MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL by H.J. Jordan Dr. Jordan, a collaborator with Maria Montessori, speaks of his conceptual framework… |
Sequence 18and Holland, where the interest was greatest, Montessori told her followers that she wasn't yet ready to discuss this… |
Sequence 17exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 18ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
Sequence 19critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 1or Los Angeles. But the Greeks who began to live on the farm created a chauvinism about what they did and who they were.… |
Sequence 3In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 4started to have threshing floors, presses, small little agricultural production centers right on their farms or shared by a… |
Sequence 7We have that legacy of dynamism in the West, for good or for evil. The danger for a Western army is always another Western… |
Sequence 8In 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 10happen. But the reality is that probably a.ll of the schools in this room, or the majority of them, are in urban environments… |
Sequence 8HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 20students be able to choose to study any period, any person, any technological achievement at any time? There are good reasons… |
Sequence 30In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
Sequence 6Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 17Timeline: Montessori Secondary Development 1907-Rome: Opening of tht Ctlsa dri Biim&mi, the flm MonleSiori e,iperiment… |
Sequence 18Hershey Montessori School, Coo:ord Twp., OH (Laurie Ewert-l<rockex) Adolescent Program at Salila, SWedE!II 0enn y Marie… |