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Sequence 1MONTESSORI, POVERTY, AND THE SPECIAL CHILD by Jon R. Osterkorn, Ph.D. With wit and substance, Dr. Osterkorn exposes the… |
Sequence 3scale, another time computing the relative distances between the plan- ets to a scale that would fit in the classroom. The… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
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 1ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal… |
Sequence 1610. Jerome S. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1966). I l. Alexis Carrel,… |
Sequence 10viva] of the fittest demands, safeguarding tradition in order to under- stand how co achieve social and technical skills… |
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 16References Egan, Kieran (1992). Imagination in Teaching and Learning. Chicago: U of Chicago. Montessori, Maria (1965; first… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
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 25part) of the disturbing hormonal changes of adolescence, the child of 9 to 12, Montessori believed, is a stronger learner than… |
Sequence 87part) of the disturbing hormonal changes of adolescence, the child of 9 to 12, Montessori believed, is a stronger learner than… |
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 19CONCLUSION Thus far we have looked at two intelligences and their relation- ship to the Montessori materials. We have looked… |
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 11especially in the beginning. Once the child has become acquainted with the different names, it is no longer essential and the… |
Sequence 8In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
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 1DR. MONTESSORI' s APPROACH TO LANGUAGE IN THE SECOND PHASE OF THE CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT by Mario M. Montessori Many… |
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 1Pr.ut JJ: 71,,e, eau ~ .M~ g~ 11 . .Jl~P~ DR. MONTESSORI' s THIRD LECTURE GIVEN AT THE MONTESSORI CONGRESS IN OXFORD… |
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 6TWENTY-EIGHTH LECTURE OF THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI COURSE AMSTERDAM, JANUARY-JUNE, 1938 DELIVERED MONDAY,… |
Sequence 10CHILDREN OF THE EARTH by Jan Koning and Fred Kelpin Jan Koning and Fred Kelp in' s interest in and commentan; about the… |
Sequence 2After the Second World War, several secondary Montessori schools were founded in Germany. In general, they followed the same… |
Sequence 3MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL by H.J. Jordan Dr. Jordan, a collaborator with Maria Montessori, speaks of his conceptual framework… |
Sequence 10exams in mind there is a somewhat stricter working-program which, to conform to exam requirements, candidates are obliged to… |
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 1Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
Sequence 1INTRODUCTION TO uKEYS TO THE WORLD: THE SECOND PLANE OF EDUCATION" by Camillo Grazzini Forty-three years ago,… |
Sequence 4of the Netherlands. He was following in his grandmother's footsteps, for Maria Montessori was similarly honored in 1950… |
Sequence 20of the Netherlands. He was following in his grandmother's footsteps, for Maria Montessori was similarly honored in 1950… |
Sequence 142INTRODUCTION TO uKEYS TO THE WORLD: THE SECOND PLANE OF EDUCATION" by Camillo Grazzini Forty-three years ago,… |
Sequence 18REFERENCE Montessori, Mario M. "Keys to the World: The Second Plane of Education." Summary of lectures,… |
Sequence 10ITHE .4 PLANs~ OF DJVELOPMENT! I TH «BULB> ,~~~' ~ ~ Figure 1. The Bulb. Maria Montessori, Rome, 1951 (cited… |
Sequence 22--- ------------------------------ seeming independence from nature and our bodily existence. The first Semitic aleph-beth… |
Sequence 1OF HEROES AND THE HEROIC: REFLECTIONS ON THE EARLY LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF MARIA MONTESSORI by Lawrence Schaefer Lnrry… |
Sequence 3If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of… |
Sequence 48Oasis for Montessori Expansion Elementary students sketching from nature, Amsterdamsche Montessori School, 1930s The role of… |
Sequence 49portive from very early on; this atmosphere helps to explain how the Montessori schools could survive through such difficult… |
Sequence 50The Netherlands, continued One cannot see the method; one sees the child. One sees the child soul, freed from obstacles,… |
Sequence 52Display Case II Natural History Drawings, Amsterdam, 1930s Documents from the Model School ot Loren, Netherlands, 1938-/939… |
Sequence 55The Model School at Laren, Netherlands, continued Documents from the Model School at Laren, Netherlands, 1938-1939 At Laren… |
Sequence 128Montessori College Oost, Amsterdam, 2000 Architect: Herman Hertzberger Side view of the school Technical lesson Workshop… |
Sequence 130Study need not be restricted by the curricula of existi.ng secondary schools and still less need we make use of their… |
Sequence 138Religious Education, continued Pope John Paul II visiting on atrium in Rome, /983 The atrium is in Nostro Signora de Lourdes… |
Sequence 165/915 Second trip to the United States, accompanied by her son. Mario. Addresses International Kindergarten Union and… |
Sequence 166India, 1939 1928 The book Das Kind in der Familie, based on lectures she gave in 1923 in Vienna, is published in Germon. (… |
Sequence 1671948 Training courses in Mmedabad, Adyar, and Poona; lectures in Bombay. Trip to Gwalior. India; supervises the opening of a… |
Sequence 187Another Viennese Montessorian and Holocaust survivor who made a significant contribution in the United States was Lena Gitter… |
Sequence 5Dr. Maria Montessori's first work, Tlte Mo11/essori Method, was published in English in New York in 1912. It was an… |
Sequence 47The time in the past is gone when Rome and Greece were mixed with the memories, sometimes justly unsympathetic memories, of… |
Sequence 48past, condemning one to waste time on issues that already have been solved or, at least, issues that have been put in some… |
Sequence 49young man is supposed to wear to the chariot races as well as what exercises will mold attractive feet and biceps to excite… |
Sequence 4fn this paper, I will summarize the fundamentals of current re- search-basedK-12 social, emotional, ethical, and aca-… |
Sequence 5books, television, and computers. As these technologies have grown, so has the potential risk of disembodiment. Abram's… |
Sequence 28argues a lot, thinks, and, as a matter of fact, I believe, personally, that it's the first age for the serious study of… |
Sequence 19The pharaohs and their nobles were very territorial and had stone markers set up to mark the boundaries of their lands.… |
Sequence 8the children in the class will know where the child is going in a short time. Parents of children in the class who are from a… |
Sequence 3Of the many cultures of humankind, of the plenitude of history's eras and their mass of pivotal artifacts, we reasoned… |
Sequence 30last eight days of the trip. For some, this can be a very difficult task; for all, it is a learning experience. Tn the… |
Sequence 14116 Part Two - For a Science of the Formation of Man materials; playful and expressive activities, with particular regard lo… |
Sequence 6School, Family and Society 123 Moreover, in 1918 Montessori had been received in private audience with pope Benedict XV,… |
Sequence 5Far from Italy: First Europe and then India 159 who received Montessori's resignation as director of the Scuola di… |
Sequence 6160 Par/ Two - For a Science of the Formation of Man disappointments, requests for help, mediations, threatened break-ups and… |
Sequence 3Figure 1. The world map of scientific discovery. and how the syllabus provides a vehicle for integrated science instruction.… |
Sequence 19Now 12 says, for the betterment of society. The high school is the training ground for a scie11tia co11- at11rnlis, an exalted… |
Sequence 10116 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 38, No. 1 • Winter 2013 Montessori, Maria, “Educazione cosmica,” 8. manuscript published in the… |
Sequence 2226 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 39, No. 2 • Spring 2014 Greater Twin Cities United Way. “Faces of Poverty: A United Way Report… |
Sequence 19215 Sackett • “The Lines That Make the Clouds” a references Devlin, Keith. The Math Gene: How Mathematical Think- ing… |
Sequence 2563 Nehring • Implementing Inclusion Theory into Practice ---.The 1946 London Lectures. Ed. Annette Haines. Laren, The… |
Sequence 1212 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 40, No. 2 • Spring 2015 and allows us to understand reality more precisely (“the hand is the… |