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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 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 6References Banta, T.J. Tests for the evaluation of early childhood education: The Cincinnati Autonomy Test Battery (CATB). In… |
Sequence 63. The student demonstrates automatic execution of the skill. E.g: Can you tell me how "0 Come Little Children&… |
Sequence 6can see it - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia." As she named the continents her hand… |
Sequence 5director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
Sequence 2systems. And of course, another irony is that those who preach change always preach how someone else should go about change,… |
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 20Stories A small group of children can write a collective story. The direccress asks questions and writes down rhe children… |
Sequence 1EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 28children's transition from orality to literacy as unqualified progress, we were to view it as a trade-off made for… |
Sequence 8kitchen. Adding section by section, piece by piece, they discovered the style pattern and saw that the repeats in Malory are… |
Sequence 3exciting, I hearli/y recommend the following books to aid you in your studies: Baughman, Emest(1966). A TypeandMotif-Jnde.… |
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 17HISTORY, CMcs, GEOGRAPHY, AND ECONOMICS 1. What is the democratic ideal? How, when, why, and where has it arisen in the… |
Sequence 183. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
Sequence 19Early Years of Exploration and Settlement in America I. Ideas to Investigate for Reports a. Europeans who reached North… |
Sequence 10with content that is familiar in students' everyday experience. The argument moves through the following steps: Everyday… |
Sequence 3of life when young people lhrive on real life experience and active involvement. And lhe adults seemed to the adolescent… |
Sequence 59of which h,l\ e been appropriated h} traditional, mainstrl'.tm education. So we arc 1101 seen as lotally unique.… |
Sequence 60• At the same time, we need Lo decide as a group of Montessori schools \, hat our target is in the clevcloprnenl of 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 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 4lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
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 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 1NAMTA's MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT PROJECT The spirit and energy currently surrounding work toward Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 1THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
Sequence 1OUTDOOR SETTINGS FOR PLAYING AND LEARNING: DESIGNING SCHOOL GROUNDS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE WHOLE CHILD AND WHOLE… |
Sequence 8ments of animals or the wind in the trees, or to express feelings, they are given the opportunity to explore alternate… |
Sequence 10when crafted well are memorable experiences. I was privileged to be at the last live performance of Chief Dan George telling… |
Sequence 11memory. Over the centuries, they roamed sea and land and learned them well; their history was encoded in stories and chants,… |
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 2THE MONTESSORI FAMILY AND ME by Margot W altuch This beautiful vignette of Margot Waltuch' s connection to the… |
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 5Cavalletti had taken Hebrew classes with Zolli and, after earning her doctorate, became his colleague. He is well-known… |
Sequence 1Silver polishing, Laren, Holland, 1948 16 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
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 9Some of you may remember those early days of WM! when the course and office were at 3000 Connecticut Avenue,opposite the Zoo… |
Sequence 8The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
Sequence 116The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
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 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 226Silver polishing, Laren, Holland, 1948 16 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. I • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 5This experience we observe even now in the indigenous peoples of the world. They live in a universe, in a cosmological order,… |
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 3The Montessori classroom functions on the general principle that each child has an innate passion to learn, is indeed driven… |
Sequence 1THE UNFOLDING DRAMA OF THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT IN AMERICA by David Kahn ACT ONE: IN THE BEGINNING Since the late 1970s,… |
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 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 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… |
Sequence 7on earth. Over 3.5 billion years there have been five of these events. Isn't it amazing that humans have reached the… |
Sequence 23do you contemplate four billion years or ten thousand years if not through story, if not through music, if not through art?… |
Sequence 1ALIGNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WITH TRUE MONTESSORI ESSENTIALS by David Kahn As 250 Montessori schools in North America… |
Sequence 6Montessori has this wonderful notion of the universe story as a curricular framework for the middle years, which operates at… |
Sequence 2SCHOOLS DISCOVERING THEIR COSMIC TASK by Terry N. Ford This is a very honest account of n school's trinls nnd errors as… |
Sequence 3mihalyi, The Social Context) concludes that Montessori students have more positive perceptions of their school environment and… |
Sequence 6Paolini had a real interest in the sensorial materials. She even corresponded with Piaget about sensorial experiments such as… |
Sequence 4only can this be understood as a particular type of peninsula, but also it brings in the third dimension, which is absolutely… |
Sequence 114. ERDKINDER AND THE "URBAN COMl'ROMJSE" 5 I have always found it disconcerting when the adjective… |
Sequence 7We all begin to converse. I recognize, among many others, J. Koning, N. VanderHeide-Verschuur, F. Malik, and G. Portielje from… |
Sequence 1Mario Montessori, Baarn, Holland, early 1970s 216 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 14We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |