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Sequence 9We give far too much attention to the conscious, and hardly any to the unconscious. And yet, it is the unconscious which… |
Sequence 10were in a Catholic country, so it can be ascribed to the Catholic religion. But it happens in India, it happens in Africa, it… |
Sequence 11"Mother, when am I going to plll on this corsage thal you have?" In Italy these are often made with velvet,… |
Sequence 12was already filled with this respect for life. Obligations and religious feelings come into sight if we have the chance to… |
Sequence 44Many responses are broad or vague, and as such leave a ve1y wide range for interpretation. Some may well be developmental… |
Sequence 17You, the teacher, with your knowledge and attitudes about guiding the process of normalization, are the most important part of… |
Sequence 5multiplicity of forms (myths, legends, folklore, poems, nonfiction, short stories, novels) with self-confidence intact,… |
Sequence 8est power of the universe, with God. The word inspiration derives from the Latin spirare, "to breathe"; its… |
Sequence 27children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 1Hopkins, L.B. (1987). Pass the poetry, please. New York: Harper Collins Children's Books. Koch, K. (1970). Wishes, lies… |
Sequence 8aristocrat who, in an act of tremendous condescen- sion, offers himself to his social inferior. It is an in- credible… |
Sequence 3IN MEMORIAM ELISE BRAUN BARNETT 1904-1994 On November 20, 1994, the Montessori community lost a tireless lover of children… |
Sequence 1In 1938, with the help of friends in India, she and her family managed to leave Austria before the War. She was to spend nine… |
Sequence 1References Montessori, M. (1962). The discoven; of the child. Madras, India: Kalakshetra. (Original work published 1948)… |
Sequence 16In 1938, with the help of friends in India, she and her family managed to leave Austria before the War. She was to spend nine… |
Sequence 17IN MEMORIAM ELISE BRAUN BARNETT 1904-1994 On November 20, 1994, the Montessori community lost a tireless lover of children… |
Sequence 20Haberman, M. (1991). The pedagogy of poverty versus good teaching. Phi Delta K.appan, 73(4). Hannaford, I. (1994, Spring).… |
Sequence 52aristocrat who, in an act of tremendous condescen- sion, offers himself to his social inferior. It is an in- credible… |
Sequence 77Hopkins, L.B. (1987). Pass the poetry, please. New York: Harper Collins Children's Books. Koch, K. (1970). Wishes, lies… |
Sequence 85children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 104est power of the universe, with God. The word inspiration derives from the Latin spirare, "to breathe"; its… |
Sequence 107multiplicity of forms (myths, legends, folklore, poems, nonfiction, short stories, novels) with self-confidence intact,… |
Sequence 169You, the teacher, with your knowledge and attitudes about guiding the process of normalization, are the most important part of… |
Sequence 4Life is a series of weanings-weaning from the womb, weaning from the breast, weaning from parents' bed or crib, weaning… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Coles, G. (1987). The learning mystique: A critical look at learning disabilities. New York: Pantheon Books.… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 1COMMITMENT TO PEACE by Renilde Montessori In the coming weeks, Renilde Montessori will assume duties as head of the… |
Sequence 2The thought of so condemning greed and ambition seems alien for a society apparently rooted in greed and ambition, although… |
Sequence 1PEACE AND EDUCATION by A. M. Joosten AbsJoosten'scommentarycitestheMontessorieducationalviewpointasintegral to the… |
Sequence 9the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 14REFERENCES Dewey, J. (1915). The school and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kramer, R. (1976). Maria… |
Sequence 10unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional… |
Sequence 2Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 9asked to play or sing the next line and create a variation based upon it. In both examples, the second "intelligence-… |
Sequence 10members of other societies, performances of the non-Western subjects improves dramatically. While being "culture-… |
Sequence 18mances on these two very different measures. The Stanford-Binet was administered by an independent psychometrician to 19 of… |
Sequence 5Praxis refers to the different uses of words. Praxis involves aware- ness of different parts of speech, for example,open the… |
Sequence 19CONCLUSION Thus far we have looked at two intelligences and their relation- ship to the Montessori materials. We have looked… |
Sequence 10Montessori insists on constructing an environment for the child in which the child can be active, a prepared environment with… |
Sequence 16Gordon, E. E. (1990). A music learning theory for newborn and young children. Chicago: GIA. Madaule, P. (1994). When… |
Sequence 10One other factor to mention briefly is the quality of parent- adolescent interaction that I saw and heard about after two… |
Sequence 10By reframing Montessori's principles of human development in light of the whole school's development, we can move… |
Sequence 7independence in the child's life. Dr. Sears states, "Independence is not, in itself, one of our most important… |
Sequence 2birth to 3 years of age, the child from 3 to 6 years, the child from 6 to 12, concerns a much more detailed look at individual… |
Sequence 6Nonetheless, the four triangles, and therefore the four planes, are distinguished two by two through the use of color. The… |
Sequence 12The "Blue Plane" of Maturity The plane of maturity, 18 to 24, corresponds more or less to university life,… |
Sequence 19incorporate are not mutually exclusive but mutually enriching. Conse- quently, our understanding of the four planes of… |
Sequence 33In The Absorbent Mind, Montessori writes, "The child is endowed with unknown powers which can guide us to a radiant… |
Sequence 6In substance, they reflect the general attitude of 19th-cen- tury science, which felt justi- fied in proclaiming, in all… |
Sequence 24element in playparks and adventure playgrounds. In new or redevel- oped school buildings, field facilities should be provided… |
Sequence 17The days are flying by. In two days I'll be home away from this place I can freely calJ home. Away from my house, my… |
Sequence 11Junior Great Books The Great Books Foundation 40 East Huron Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 1-800-222-5870 Provides… |
Sequence 2something or get some assistance in a store, I am reminded of this. It seems that adults think that if teenagers are in a… |
Sequence 7is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 8For the second quote, we find: "The child's intelligence ... a fertile field in which seeds may be sown"… |
Sequence 15"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 17answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason… |
Sequence 19The first is like a river which carries substances to all parts of the body. But it acts also as a collector. In fact, the… |
Sequence 10Here is how another skater describes the utter absorption when one feels that a performance is going well: It was just one of… |
Sequence 11compared to the game. You can think about a problem all day but as soon as you get in the game, the hell with it! [In figure… |
Sequence 25chemicals is obviously an attempt to recapture some of the qualities of optimal experience by artificial means. Alcohol,… |
Sequence 16REFERENCES Montessori, M. {1966). The secret of childhood. New Delhi: Orient Longmans. (Original work published 1936)… |
Sequence 10Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Harper Collins. Healy, J.M. (1990). Endangered… |
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 13The interesting thing is that when those conditions are there, people tend to want to do what they did to get that feeling,… |
Sequence 6of the intellect for its own sake. The reasoning mind has a much grander task: The work of humanity that always loves more,… |
Sequence 15REFERENCES Gebhardt-Seele, P. (1997). Evaluating experiences in adolescent programs. The NAMTA Journal, 22(1), 14-21.… |
Sequence 4tion becomes possible if there are activities that are appropriate to the child. Activities need to catch interest, bring… |
Sequence 5As educators, we have several things to do: 1. Limit everything that is not "person." The right limits are… |
Sequence 8Figure 4: Persons in Community We must make a plan of development with the guide that the child gives us through the powers… |
Sequence 7about intellectual development at all, but deal more broadly with the kind of people we hope children will turn out to be,… |
Sequence 38Branden, N. (1997). The art of living consciously. New York: Simon & Schuster. Briggs, D.C. (1970). Your child's… |
Sequence 6principle is embodied in the Cyl- inder Block, where there are ten cylinders and ten holes into which they fit. The… |
Sequence 4another more spiritual realm. Maria Montessori said, "creative work ... lifts man up from earth and transports him… |
Sequence 8But the mind must have something to express. Imagination rests on facts and on information which have accumulated in some… |
Sequence 9many choices for self-expres- sion. Different children are attracted to different forms of art. How many of us engage the… |
Sequence 9inventions of the scientific period, and culminated-not openly, but there was never any doubt-in the United States of America… |
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 13Theologically, the responsibility of the human is to perceive the evolutionary universe as the primary revelatory experience… |
Sequence 7What, then, is the central human issue of culture, viewed scien- tifically, within the Epic of Evolution? It is the issue of… |
Sequence 11movements of the universe-that nature was both teacher and guide. Even as historical traditions arose in certain contexts,… |
Sequence 14The Psalms which reflect lamentation and thanksgiving might be seen as part of the cultivation side of the dyad. As injustice… |
Sequence 18To placate the powers of nature, to maintain order, and finally to obtain material benefits-all of these are reasons for the… |
Sequence 7agency of genes, which contain the program for the development of structures and functions within the biological organism.… |
Sequence 10Now is there any kind of guidance among the various scenarios of the future that we may or may not endorse through our… |
Sequence 14transmitted and becomes more and more complex. We get mortars and pestles and then stone grinding mills and all of that-just… |
Sequence 38Grazzini, C. (1996). The four planes of development. The NAMTA Journal, 21(2), 208-241. Kahn, D. (1997a). Normalization and… |
Sequence 2"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 3universe; for one must encounter the facts of nature so that the imagination can build its vision of the whole based in the… |
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 3street the house of the priest was be- ing looted; farther up, at the end, a gutted church was still smoldering. From a… |
Sequence 2Kodaikanal, India THE IMPACT OF INDIA by Mario M. Montessori Looking back on the checkered life of Dr. Montessori in this… |
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 8Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children… |
Sequence 1Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &… |
Sequence 13to build a fire, you are expected to admire his fire even if it is a poor one. Once he has mastered the technique, however,… |
Sequence 1SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK AND THE CHILD by Mario M. Montessori edited by Renilde Montessori Last month, in Edinburgh, Professor A.J… |