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

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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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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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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…
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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…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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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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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, uwhat is the point of all this?" We…
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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…

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 13/2 12 Tribute to Linda Soule Preston

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TRIBUTE TO LINDA PRESTON By David Kahn In Memory of LINDA SOULE PRESTON April 4, 1938 - March 20, 1988 Memorial Service…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 01 The Assistant to Infancy: A Special Educator (Includes Overview of History of Assistants to Infancy)

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"Man himself must become the center of education and we must never forget that man does not develop only at…
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Jan.23, 1883 1909 1935 1946 1947 1957 1961 HISTORY OF ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY Adele Costa Gnocchi was born in Montefalco…

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 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 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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What I propose to do today is not to repeat, or even to summarize, what has already been said by Montessorians preceding me,…
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In The Absorbent Mind, Montessori writes, "The child is endowed with unknown powers which can guide us to a radiant…

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

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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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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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self-evident and emotionally satisfying, and the child is never left wondering, "What is the point of all this?&…

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 &…

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…
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It was a delight to watch Mario with children of any age, in any country, immersed in any situation. Mario could speak with…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 06 The Totonaca People and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

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THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 06 The Genius of Montessori History

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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 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 27/1 15 The Assistant to Infancy: A Special Educator

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child, the greater must be the preparation of the people who will take care of him or her. During the many years she spent in…

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

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both a renewed awareness of, and a practical initiative in harmony with, Maria Montessori's cosmic vision. EsF should be…
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of childhood." We realized that everything we were learning con- trasted strongly with our traditional state training…
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Montessori Congress, held in Edinburgh in 1938.) The Four Planes ( or phases) of Development or Education constitute that…
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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…
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In 1961 I was still teaching at the school in Brescia as well as lecturing at the Centre later in the day. I helped to give…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 04 The Four Planes of Development

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only because it is presented in the Bergamo courses. The second chart, the second pictorial representation devised by Maria…
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The X, in other words, represents "Man the Unknown." 12 The child, and therefore the adult that the child…
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Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 10 Introduction to "Keys to the World: The Second Plane of Education"

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INTRODUCTION TO uKEYS TO THE WORLD: THE SECOND PLANE OF EDUCATION" by Camillo Grazzini Forty-three years ago,…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 11 Contrasting Land and Water Forms: The Method in Practice

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Once upon a time, there was a Montessori manufacturer who produced this material in an erroneous fashion: The concept of pen…

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

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Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. Trans. Barbara Barclay Carter. Calcutta: Orient Longmans, 1958. Montessori…

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

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soon as she came to know my theory, the great Maestra used it in support of all her own scientific pedagogy." In…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 16 Mario M. Montessori is Dead: Chronicle of a Ceremony

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the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 17 My Tribute to Mario Montessori

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Thus, in this year's first issue of AMI Communications, Renilde Montessori gives the "acknowledgement of the…
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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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Figure 1. Montessori representations of chemical elements: the atoms. Perugia, 1956. So, for example, the "sugar that…

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

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Figure 1. Montessori representations of chemical elements: the atoms. Perugia, 1956. So, for example, the "sugar that…
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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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Thus, in this year's first issue of AMI Communications, Renilde Montessori gives the "acknowledgement of the…
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the training of Montessori teachers: in Europe (Bergamo, Dublin, London, Paris, Perugia, Rome); in Asia (Bombay, Colombo,…
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soon as she came to know my theory, the great Maestra used it in support of all her own scientific pedagogy." In…
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Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. Trans. Barbara Barclay Carter. Calcutta: Orient Longmans, 1958. Montessori…
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Once upon a time, there was a Montessori manufacturer who produced this material in an erroneous fashion: The concept of pen…
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INTRODUCTION TO uKEYS TO THE WORLD: THE SECOND PLANE OF EDUCATION" by Camillo Grazzini Forty-three years ago,…
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Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken…
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The X, in other words, represents "Man the Unknown." 12 The child, and therefore the adult that the child…
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only because it is presented in the Bergamo courses. The second chart, the second pictorial representation devised by Maria…
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In 1961 I was still teaching at the school in Brescia as well as lecturing at the Centre later in the day. I helped to give…
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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…
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Montessori Congress, held in Edinburgh in 1938.) The Four Planes ( or phases) of Development or Education constitute that…
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of childhood." We realized that everything we were learning con- trasted strongly with our traditional state training…
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both a renewed awareness of, and a practical initiative in harmony with, Maria Montessori's cosmic vision. EsF should be…

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 31/2 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…

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