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Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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For the second quote, we find: "The child's intelligence ... a fertile field in which seeds may be sown&quot…
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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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For the second quote, we find: "The child's intelligence ... a fertile field in which seeds may be sown&quot…
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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 08 The Pure Wonder of Young Lives

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wonder is sometimes filled with exclamation, but it is as often silent. Children are led into contemplation of what is before…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 03 Interview: The Kodaikanal Experience (Kahn-Montessori Interview)

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THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her…
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was taking the RAFers through enemy territory to a place near Bel- gium where they could cross to go back home. And my two…
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Kahn: Another part of Cosmic Education are the charts and the time- lines. Doesn't your original work in Kodaikanal run…
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child can experience in nature that there is something eternal, present everywhere and always, which seems to have organized…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 03 The Montessori Movement (1956)

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director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 07 Happiness Revisited

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Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the lase…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 08 The Montessori Adolescent: Frameworks for Invention

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Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 02 Montessori 2000 Mission

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MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 08 Selected Appendices (introduction)

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MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 02 The Ecology of the Mind

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of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 02 Maria Montessori and the "Glass House"

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MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys…
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and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 03 A Day with Dr. Maria Montessori and Her Youthful Charges Is an Eye-Opener for the Average Parent

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A DAY WITH DR. MARIA MONTESSORI AND HER YouTHFUL CHARGES Is AN EYE-OPENER FOR THE AVERAGE p ARENT by Frederick R. Hinkle…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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century, no scientist or philosopher any longer believed in the idea of linear development during the prenatal period, in the…
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MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 05 Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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For the second quote, we find: "The child's intelligence ... a fertile field in which seeds may be sown&quot…
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"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth…

NAMTA Journal 23/1 12 The Origins of Agrarianism and the Development of the Self

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digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 01 Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom, A Life's Journey of Educational Ideas

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universe; for one must encounter the facts of nature so that the imagination can build its vision of the whole based in the…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 04 The Impact of India

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Kodaikanal, India THE IMPACT OF INDIA by Mario M. Montessori Looking back on the checkered life of Dr. Montessori in this…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 05 The Kodaikanal Experience: Kahn - Montessori Interview

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Kodaikanal, India THE KooAIKANAL EXPERIENCE: KAHN-MONTESSORI INTERVIEW by David Kahn David Kahn: You once alluded to…
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of 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…
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had its cosmic task. And some of these tasks were not pleasant for human beings. The children might consider the task horrible…
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contained by a cylinder, it pushes together. When you take the sides of the cylinder off, it pushes together. Then you…
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Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 06 The Unconscious in History

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Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &…
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Yes, there are innumerable agriculturists, gardeners, sweepers, grave diggers that keep order upon the earth so that nature…

NAMTA Journal 23/2 08 The Child Before Seven Years of Age, The Child After Seven Years of Age and What Children Taught Dr…

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He has become adapted to his group as it is at the particular time when he is growing up and to his environment and whatever…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 05 The Montessori Family and Me

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ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 11 A Montessori Community for Adolescents

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in other words, who had been deeply scarred by the war, injured in both body and soul. 6 Other types of institutions have…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 08 Science and Faith: Maria Montessori's Principles of Education

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At the same time, she identifies herself as a student of philosophy. She even translated an 1866 English edition of a book by…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 06 Montessori and Music

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Children do not listen in the so-called "grown-up manner," sitting quietly. They like to move with music.…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 06 The Genius of Montessori History

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This documented history was so absorbing that the chil- dren became entirely possessed by the situations. They started…
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In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the…
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The Greek word cosmic has four complementary and interwoven meanings. On its basic level, it means order and harmony; then…
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The third thing we should understand is that elementary children were full partners in the creation of cosmic education. The…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 06 Cosmic Education

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COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,…

NAMTA Journal 26/1 04 Optimal Developmental Outcomes for the Child Aged Six to Twelve: Social, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional…

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ment. Knowledge is what the human mind strives to acquire and what gives the child a rewarding life. MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE…
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REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 23 A Historical Look at Montessori's Erdkinder

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ideas of Erdkinder out of this milieu is the thesis that the documenta- tion in this paper seeks to demonstrate. She as much…
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road to achieving economic independence." A big difference, perhaps the largest difference, of the Erdkinder when…
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from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 24 The Origins of Agrarianism and the Development of the Self

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really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 25 Emerging Psychological Characteristics of Farm Life

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you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 35 Hershey Montessori Farm School: Place Based High School Biology

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Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination…

NAMTA Journal 27/1 01 Child Development Under Three: The Foundations of the Personality, the Family, and the Montessori Method

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forty-five years prior to any of the early brain research on the potentials of children under three. So once again she was a…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 12 The Natural World as Prepared Environment

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trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of…
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Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural…

NAMTA Journal 28/2 01 A Montessori Life as a Spiritual Journey—Part I

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Let me explain, very briefly, how I entered the Montessori world and how this experience changed deeply my personal and profes…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 03 An Interview with Camillo Grazzini: Celebrating Fifty years of Montessori Work

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context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 04 The Four Planes of Development

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Philosophy of the Winnetka Curriculum, 1926); and those of two of Montessori's pupils: Makinden (Individual Work System)…
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Montessori, Maria. Spontaneous Activity in Education. 1916. Trans. Florence Simmonds. New York: Schocken, 1965. Vol. 1 of The…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 07 Maria Montessori and Algebra: The Binomial Theorem

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seriations, for instance in regard to the stature of children of the same race, sex and age but of opposite social conditions…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 12 Characteristics of the Child in the Elementary School

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tacked what she saw as general abuses of this human faculty: sixty years ago (in The Advanced Montessori Method) she denounced…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 14 A Montessori Community for Adolescents

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been lacking: the very environment which constitutes the keystone for an Erdkinder community experiment. 5. PAST EXPERIENCE…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 15 Introduction to Mario M. Montessori's "Syntropy and Psychological Growth"

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INTRODUCTION TO MARIO M. MoNTESSORI's uSYNTROPY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH" by Camillo Grazzini Syntropy is a…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 17 My Tribute to Mario Montessori

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with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 18 Maria Montessori and Supranature: Wireless Telegraphy

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Above and beyond Marconi and Marconi's amazing invention, Maria Montessori is moved by the grandeur of the human being…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 22 Camillo 26-01-04

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Above and beyond Marconi and Marconi's amazing invention, Maria Montessori is moved by the grandeur of the human being…
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with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen…
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INTRODUCTION TO MARIO M. MoNTESSORI's uSYNTROPY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH" by Camillo Grazzini Syntropy is a…
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been lacking: the very environment which constitutes the keystone for an Erdkinder community experiment. 5. PAST EXPERIENCE…
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tacked what she saw as general abuses of this human faculty: sixty years ago (in The Advanced Montessori Method) she denounced…
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seriations, for instance in regard to the stature of children of the same race, sex and age but of opposite social conditions…
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Montessori, Maria. Spontaneous Activity in Education. 1916. Trans. Florence Simmonds. New York: Schocken, 1965. Vol. 1 of The…
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Philosophy of the Winnetka Curriculum, 1926); and those of two of Montessori's pupils: Makinden (Individual Work System)…
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context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 02 Places for Belonging: From Womb to Home to Montessori School

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the newness, by all the stimuli that overwhelm our lives today. When a baby is overstimulated there is generally one of two…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 12 The Great River

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THE GREAT RIVER by Baiba Krumins Grazzini The Great River is sometimes referred to as a metaphor for human unity, which has…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 12 Montessori Without Borders

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CONCRETIZING COSMIC EDUCATION IN INDIA: A MONTESSORI HISTORICAL ACCOUNT by Ela Eckert Ela Eckert's detailed account of…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 13 Concretizing Cosmic Education in India: A Montessori Historical Account

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House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational…
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classes existed for students from the ages of six to twelve, but in Kodaikanal Maria Montessori developed cosmic education as…
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about this: " ... when coming to Kodaikanal, a whole new world opened up for Mario. He was mostly experimenting and…
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Because of its seclusion, the population of Kodai grew slowly despite the favorable climate, and always there were many more…
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and finally abandoned. Remaining are unique archives with histori- cal documents about the Jesuit missionaries in southern…
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children, the Swedish and the Jewish school, as well as a few Catholic schools for the children of Tamil families. How was…
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opened a small school, where she began working with four children and eventually, together with other Indian women, cared for…
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Maria Montessori probably was notable to appreciate the unusual diversity of nature with the same open-mindedness with which…
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Museum of the Sacred Heart College, founded by two priests between 1920 and 1940, was frequently visited by both Montessoris…
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attempts I made to dig out information about Maria Montessori's stay and work in Koda i. My inquiries were frequent! y…
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found herself for a time in a frustrating professional isolation: no official notice or acknowledgement of her work, no…
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switched to the KIS, where her parents worked) responsible for her lifelong interest in learning and education is quite…
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between human beings and the cosmos comes up over and over again. For that reason, Maria Montessori, with her discourses about…
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-------------------------------- ---- and Hindu religion deepened, the cosmic idea came to the fore. Shankar Dutta Panday, a…
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On the other hand: The gradually concretized splendid vision of a cosmic education developing into a comprehensive didactic…
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Millier, F. Max. Einleitung in die Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft-Vier Vorlesungen und zwei Essays, gehalten an der…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 02 Establishing the Erdkinder Appendices as an Authority

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criticism which does not stem from experimentation or even reflection. People just reacted against and criticized. I found a…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 30 Montessori Erdkinder: The Social Evolution of the Little Community

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self-sufficiency. The adolescent attempts to find a base for a multifac- eted independence, but the greatest of all…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 09 Deepening Cosmic Education

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understanding of the complex planetary systems. In 2004, the world scientific community completed an extraordinary decade-long…

NAMTA Journal 31/3 02 Nature and Embodied Education: A Key Role for Montessori Research

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such an ethic is often heavy-handed preaching about the imminent demise of the planet. Such information definitely has its…

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