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Sequence 9trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of… |
Sequence 27clams, jellyfish, starfish, sponges, spiders, vertebrates, leeches, lawyers, and other species began to develop. (Adapted… |
Sequence 8Houses. This is not a snobby attitude. If we take in too many children who cannot follow their healthy inner urges, then we… |
Sequence 21children we love and work with. Thank you for your attention. It has been an honor to share these thoughts with you.… |
Sequence 16care about the development of the child. In a lecture given in 1939 in London, Dr. Montessori said: The child is not only the… |
Sequence 2the children and adolescents we serve on a daily basis. My belief is that they teach us, inform us, and pull us toward our own… |
Sequence 11"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an… |
Sequence 18never called work anything that they themselves originated. That is the typical way in which kids learn about what's work… |
Sequence 10REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Flow and Education." The NAMT A Journal 22.2 (1997, Spring): 3-35.… |
Sequence 11REFERENCES Montessori, M. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Rev. ed. Trans. AM. Joosten. Oxford, England: Clio, 1996.… |
Sequence 9REFERENCES Haines, A.M. Spontaneous Concentration in the Montessori Prepared Environment. Videocassette. NAMTA, 1997.… |
Sequence 9context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 12Over four consecutive years both a Casa Dei Bambini and four elementary classes were opened, and by 1952 the school was… |
Sequence 16ees need to understand fully the principles of geology, biology, and history. They need a good general background so that by… |
Sequence 34matter. One might almost say they represent a kind of distillation of her thinking, observation, and reflection over many,… |
Sequence 35Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken… |
Sequence 15other hand, why is it that a few prisms keep their original colors? • How should we set about representing (by means of loose… |
Sequence 11This clear separation would help communication both within the adult Montessori community and also with the world at large.… |
Sequence 4The Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches and Writings This book (Clio Press) includes a lecture given by Maria… |
Sequence 7differences also by providing each elementary environment (be it six to nine or nine to twelve) with a full set of advanced… |
Sequence 16Foreword by Margaret Drummond. The Italian edition isComeconobbiMaria Montessori. Rome: Vita dell'infanzia, 1956.… |
Sequence 18environment. He is like the spider, whose web, whose field of action, is enormous in comparison to the animal itself (… |
Sequence 19Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. Trans. Barbara Barclay Carter. Calcutta: Orient Longmans, 1958. Montessori… |
Sequence 5shared direction and a common goal in our work. In stark contrast to this, there is cosmic education, which is for the second… |
Sequence 11Nature and, moreover, makes use of them, thus creating new possibilities. His technical skill has harnessed the forces of… |
Sequence 13context of a single force. With these kinds of discoveries, the children come to understand and appreciate the importance of… |
Sequence 18Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1949. Montessori, Maria. To… |
Sequence 4with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen… |
Sequence 36with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen… |
Sequence 84Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1949. Montessori, Maria. To… |
Sequence 89context of a single force. With these kinds of discoveries, the children come to understand and appreciate the importance of… |
Sequence 91Nature and, moreover, makes use of them, thus creating new possibilities. His technical skill has harnessed the forces of… |
Sequence 97shared direction and a common goal in our work. In stark contrast to this, there is cosmic education, which is for the second… |
Sequence 102Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. Trans. Barbara Barclay Carter. Calcutta: Orient Longmans, 1958. Montessori… |
Sequence 103environment. He is like the spider, whose web, whose field of action, is enormous in comparison to the animal itself (… |
Sequence 122Foreword by Margaret Drummond. The Italian edition isComeconobbiMaria Montessori. Rome: Vita dell'infanzia, 1956.… |
Sequence 143differences also by providing each elementary environment (be it six to nine or nine to twelve) with a full set of advanced… |
Sequence 146The Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches and Writings This book (Clio Press) includes a lecture given by Maria… |
Sequence 151This clear separation would help communication both within the adult Montessori community and also with the world at large.… |
Sequence 163other hand, why is it that a few prisms keep their original colors? • How should we set about representing (by means of loose… |
Sequence 195Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken… |
Sequence 196matter. One might almost say they represent a kind of distillation of her thinking, observation, and reflection over many,… |
Sequence 232ees need to understand fully the principles of geology, biology, and history. They need a good general background so that by… |
Sequence 236Over four consecutive years both a Casa Dei Bambini and four elementary classes were opened, and by 1952 the school was… |
Sequence 239context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 18child who stands before us with his arms held open, beckoning humanity to follow. (118-119) Thank you. REFERENCES… |
Sequence 12Yet I come to London, and every blessed child speaks good English. Who taught them? Where were the professors, the books, the… |
Sequence 14are you going to prick my ears so that I can put my earrings like you have them?" And later on, "Mother,… |
Sequence 15But grammar is a natural and enjoyable exploration if given at the right age. Even if you have a barrier against grammar… |
Sequence 16Montessori, Maria. The Montessori Elementary Material. 1916. Trans. Florence Simmonds. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1965. Vol… |
Sequence 11Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Church.… |
Sequence 27Friel, John C., & Linda D. Friel. Tile Seven Worst Things (Good) Parents Do. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Commu-… |
Sequence 16Eliot, T. S. "Little Gidding." Four Quartets. 1943. London: Faber & Faber, 1971. Fitzgerald,… |
Sequence 16REFERENCES Brazelton, T. Berry, & Stanley I. Greenspan. The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have… |
Sequence 17treat your souls. So I will leave you with this: Be strong and moral young men and women, and as you face the world before… |
Sequence 7into these wild, outdoor spaces, where they will make their own discoveries. "When the child goes out,"… |
Sequence 14Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966… |
Sequence 16Action. Ed. K.H. Pribram. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1969. Gesell, Arnold, Frances L. Ilg, Janet L. Rodell, et al.… |
Sequence 18uniqueness into a richer idea of society and what we can achieve as humanity. REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary… |
Sequence 9the parish would have twelve Masses every weekend and they'd all be full." Why does this journey with the child… |
Sequence 16in the Milwaukee Public Schools. Rochester, NY: AMI/ USA, 2003. Edison, Charles. Edison Experiments You Can DO. New York:… |
Sequence 14Montessori, Maria. The Child, Society and the World: Unpub- lished Speeches and Writings. 1979. Trans. Caroline Juler &… |
Sequence 15• Dr. Montessori inaugurates her first Indian course. Seated are (behind her) Mr. Rajagopalachari, Dr. Arundale, President… |
Sequence 16CONCRETIZING COSMIC EDUCATION IN INDIA: A MONTESSORI HISTORICAL ACCOUNT by Ela Eckert Ela Eckert's detailed account of… |
Sequence 1The purpose of my discourse is to examine why and in what way Maria Montessori's vision of cosmic education, formed… |
Sequence 2izing that illiteracy is a fundamental issue that must be solved. (Montessori, "Weltilliteracyus" 151) She… |
Sequence 3social conceptions, and was interned by the British just as she was. As a professor and later chancellor of the university, he… |
Sequence 4family and her close contact with Annie Besant, she became familiar with theosophical thought at an early age. Her intention… |
Sequence 5and exact body control, and the schooling of aesthetic taste through the guidance of competent and understanding adults in an… |
Sequence 7House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational… |
Sequence 11Because of its seclusion, the population of Kodai grew slowly despite the favorable climate, and always there were many more… |
Sequence 12and finally abandoned. Remaining are unique archives with histori- cal documents about the Jesuit missionaries in southern… |
Sequence 13children, the Swedish and the Jewish school, as well as a few Catholic schools for the children of Tamil families. How was… |
Sequence 14opened a small school, where she began working with four children and eventually, together with other Indian women, cared for… |
Sequence 15Maria Montessori probably was notable to appreciate the unusual diversity of nature with the same open-mindedness with which… |
Sequence 18found herself for a time in a frustrating professional isolation: no official notice or acknowledgement of her work, no… |
Sequence 23ders of the physical world." While the experiments for the younger children were demonstrated to them by an adult,… |
Sequence 24All of this indicates how comprehensively Maria Montessori herself saw the concept of cosmic education and how seriously she… |
Sequence 25was quite likely also instrumental in the acceptance she and her ideas received in India. Another aspect of the Indian way of… |
Sequence 26between human beings and the cosmos comes up over and over again. For that reason, Maria Montessori, with her discourses about… |
Sequence 28On the other hand: The gradually concretized splendid vision of a cosmic education developing into a comprehensive didactic… |
Sequence 29Kramer, Rita. Maria Montessori: A Biography. New York: Putnam's, 1976. Krishnaswamy, S. "George Sydney Arundale… |
Sequence 30Millier, F. Max. Einleitung in die Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft-Vier Vorlesungen und zwei Essays, gehalten an der… |
Sequence 5Yet we also have to interpret what Montessori says in the light of all her works, of everything that we can find, of her… |
Sequence 10REFERENCES Grazzini, Camillo. "The Four Planes of Development." The Child, the Family, the Future. AMI… |
Sequence 34Koch, Kenneth. Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. New York: Random House, 1973. Montessori… |
Sequence 5The Four Planes of Development bon1e· 3 9 15 21 Figure 1. The Four Planes of Development (cited in Grazzini 7) working… |
Sequence 12Then,ofcourse, you think: butwhatabout theadolescents?Where are they going to get their vision of the whole? From the… |
Sequence 15interest in, what is extraordinary, what is magnificent; and they have a natural tendency to hero worship. All of this can be… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Covey, Stephen R. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Dyer,… |
Sequence 13• Allow your child to feel strong feelings; teach him or her acceptable ways of expressing them. • Expect error and cultivate… |
Sequence 14Conference Proceedings, July 19-24, 1994, Washington, DC]. Rochester, NY: AMI/USA, 1995. 117-130. Lakoff, George. "… |
Sequence 13• They will be lifelong learners because they enjoy what they do and learn in order to envision. • They will be socialized… |
Sequence 17off the roof will be collected in large cisterns for watering the gardens and washing. We also chose to use straw bale… |
Sequence 3simple tool-the pencil-a sense of the whole and the interconnec- tions between things and people. The elder hoped to awaken… |
Sequence 6understanding of the complex planetary systems. In 2004, the world scientific community completed an extraordinary decade-long… |
Sequence 13Montessori; see Creative Development in the Child 133) and become more cognizant of the keys in our timelines, charts, and… |
Sequence 17to hold in our hearts and minds the big picture, and for the love of our children and the future, to keep our own fire of hope… |
Sequence 18Montessori, Maria. Education and Peace. 1949. Trans. Helen R. Lane. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972. Montessori, Maria. &… |
Sequence 24Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Trans. Claude A. Claremont. Thiruvanmiyur, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1959… |