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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…

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…

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 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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conuibuted to her being somewhat ostracized by the scientific and educational establishment and her being labeled as &quot…

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 18/1 01 Reinventing Montessori: Perils and Possibilities

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EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 06 Literature and Grammar

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LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR by Mrs. Francesca Claremont Transcribed and Edited by Jim and Frances Fitzpatrick Here follow two…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 07 Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and History: Uses and Classification

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the twenty key dates of history-1097-and you'd better put it down now and remember it if you can. 1097 is the year in…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 07 Cosmic Education and Literature-Based Teaching

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children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 14 In Memoriam: Nancy McCormick Rambusch 1927-1994

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children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 14 Universality of the Special Child

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REFERENCES Coles, G. (1987). The learning mystique: A critical look at learning disabilities. New York: Pantheon Books.…

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

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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 07 Peace Through Education

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tory, the teaching of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the teaching of a common language. That education ought to be…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 11 Do Not Bequeath a Shamble—The Child in the Twenty-First Century: Innocent Hostage to Mindless Oppression…

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the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,…

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…

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

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Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When…
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"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is…
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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 02 Respect This House

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Barcelona, Spain RESPECT THIS HOUSE by Mario M. Montessori Recently Dr. Montessori gave a series of lectures at the All…

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 02 World Odyssey: Revelations of the Possible

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THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have…

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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REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 15 Story Upon Story

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the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They…

NAMTA Journal 24/2 01 The Spiritual Development of the Child: Keeping the Balance

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It is no doubt that Maria Montessori saw a divine presence in young children which made them" all-powerful,&quot…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 06 The Genius of Montessori History

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We must present the human story, and this goal is the central and overarching history theme of any Montessori adolescent…
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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 25/2 10 "In a Beginning…": Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah

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If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would…
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Kabbalah is an example of a cosmology resembling our own that successfully penetrated and enriched the lives of a society. In…

NAMTA Journal 25/2 13 Innovation within Limits: How Is It Possible? – A Summary of the Proceedings

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Renilde Montessori then presented her vision of origins and innovation. Inspired by the Taliesin community, she began with a…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 02 The Human Tendencies

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But as well as this material territory to be exposed to the child, with the ways in which man has come into contact with other…

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 27/3 05 God Who Has No Hands

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Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," &quot…

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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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 14 A Montessori Community for Adolescents

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is a translation by the Montessori Educational Research Center from the French De /'En/ant a I' Adolescent (Desclee…

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 22 Camillo 26-01-04

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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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is a translation by the Montessori Educational Research Center from the French De /'En/ant a I' Adolescent (Desclee…
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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 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 30/1 15 Educateurs sans Frontières: Living out the Vision

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Burgos Cathedral, Spain Charlene S. Trochta 188 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 30, No. J • Winter 2005

NAMTA Journal 30/2 12 Montessori Without Borders

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Here are some of the speakers and topics from the assembly in Burgos, Spain: • Winfried Bohm, "The Idea of Education…
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•Weare fulfilling a cosmic task. Montessori asks us to seek universality and to be conscious of the mission humanity has in…
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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 06 Liberty: Spiritual Freedom and Moral Responsibility

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LIBERTY: SPIRITUAL FREEDOM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY by Eduardo J. Cuevas Mr. Cuevas' universal article about freedom,…

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 32/1 05 The Original Principles of The Silent Journey

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COSMIC EDUCATION by Annette Haines Annette Haines makes a clear and well-doc11me11ted presentatio11 of Cosmic Education,…
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Montessori, Maria. The Secret oJC!,i/dlwod. 1936. Trans. M. Joseph Costelloe. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Montessori, Maria.…

NAMTA Journal 32/3 01 The NAMTA Centenary Exhibit

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education of children. She prepared a children's chapel, called an Atrium, so children could have a living experience…
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Outdoor class, Esco/a Nocionol Montessori, Barcelona, I930s Cntatan folk dancing, 1930s Spain, continued lnstitucio…
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An Auspicious Beginning Small images from top to bottom: Dr. Montessori meeting children in Kotohena with the first…
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Movement and Silence, continued Children love silence and immobility and practice it spontaneously. One day [in Sevres,…
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Religious Education Such things, therefore, must appeal to their tender minds as the end of effort patiently sustained,…
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Sowing the Seeds of the Sciences "The eye that sees and the hand that obeys:• South Africa, 2006 Dramar:ic…
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Far Journey to the Southlands (Australia and New Zealand) We are indebted to Debbie Senoff-Langford of Chicago for graciously…
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Discovering the Universal Child (India) Adding to what has been mentioned on the Indian panel, the famed Gujarati educator…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 01 Montessori: Pathways to Education Reform, 1907-2007

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Dr. Maria Montessori's first work, Tlte Mo11/essori Method, was published in English in New York in 1912. It was an…
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short, Montessori's emerging spiritual identity in her work is the fervor of the reform movement. Sofia Cavalletti, co-…

NAMTA Journal 33/1 07 A Brief Historical Preface to the Task of Curriculum Reform: A Personal and Therefore a Limited Report

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it has never been tried (37). Why not? But what does succeed in the character education of a human being, indeed, if &quot…

NAMTA Journal 33/2 08 Support and Engagement for All Students

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"See," T said, "lww wise and strong somebody is, nnd l10wbrnve. See !tow 111ucft fte cared about…

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