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Sequence 7EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 93LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR by Mrs. Francesca Claremont Transcribed and Edited by Jim and Frances Fitzpatrick Here follow two… |
Sequence 120the 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… |
Sequence 117children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 169REFERENCES Coles, G. (1987). The learning mystique: A critical look at learning disabilities. New York: Pantheon Books.… |
Sequence 17and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 61tory, the teaching of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the teaching of a common language. That education ought to be… |
Sequence 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 50is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 51For the second quote, we find: "The child's intelligence ... a fertile field in which seeds may be sown"… |
Sequence 351organization of story, logic, and truth, which comes to the inevitable realization that to serve is to balance one's… |
Sequence 1THE Vol. 23, No. 2 Spring 1998 NAMTA Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom Introduction by David Kahn Respect… |
Sequence 6Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When… |
Sequence 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 8universe; for one must encounter the facts of nature so that the imagination can build its vision of the whole based in the… |
Sequence 12Barcelona, Spain RESPECT THIS HOUSE by Mario M. Montessori Recently Dr. Montessori gave a series of lectures at the All… |
Sequence 32Kodaikanal, India THE IMPACT OF INDIA by Mario M. Montessori Looking back on the checkered life of Dr. Montessori in this… |
Sequence 40Kodaikanal, India THE KooAIKANAL EXPERIENCE: KAHN-MONTESSORI INTERVIEW by David Kahn David Kahn: You once alluded to… |
Sequence 41of 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… |
Sequence 45had its cosmic task. And some of these tasks were not pleasant for human beings. The children might consider the task horrible… |
Sequence 46contained by a cylinder, it pushes together. When you take the sides of the cylinder off, it pushes together. Then you… |
Sequence 47Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children… |
Sequence 50Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &… |
Sequence 17THE INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTRE Since Maria Montessori inaugurated the first Casa dei Bambini in 1907, Montessori schools have… |
Sequence 61ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 168REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:… |
Sequence 235the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
Sequence 6It is no doubt that Maria Montessori saw a divine presence in young children which made them" all-powerful,"… |
Sequence 84We must present the human story, and this goal is the central and overarching history theme of any Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 85In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 86The Greek word cosmic has four complementary and interwoven meanings. On its basic level, it means order and harmony; then… |
Sequence 87The third thing we should understand is that elementary children were full partners in the creation of cosmic education. The… |
Sequence 153If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 155Kabbalah is an example of a cosmology resembling our own that successfully penetrated and enriched the lives of a society. In… |
Sequence 221Renilde Montessori then presented her vision of origins and innovation. Inspired by the Taliesin community, she began with a… |
Sequence 25But as well as this material territory to be exposed to the child, with the ways in which man has come into contact with other… |
Sequence 91ment. Knowledge is what the human mind strives to acquire and what gives the child a rewarding life. MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE… |
Sequence 98REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
Sequence 319ideas of Erdkinder out of this milieu is the thesis that the documenta- tion in this paper seeks to demonstrate. She as much… |
Sequence 321road to achieving economic independence." A big difference, perhaps the largest difference, of the Erdkinder when… |
Sequence 322from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on… |
Sequence 326really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire… |
Sequence 38Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
Sequence 143trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of… |
Sequence 153Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 23context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 210is a translation by the Montessori Educational Research Center from the French De /'En/ant a I' Adolescent (Desclee… |
Sequence 226with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen… |
Sequence 160THE GREAT RIVER by Baiba Krumins Grazzini The Great River is sometimes referred to as a metaphor for human unity, which has… |
Sequence 193Burgos Cathedral, Spain Charlene S. Trochta 188 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 30, No. J • Winter 2005 |
Sequence 182MONTESSORI WITHOUT BORDERS by Silvia C. Dubovoy Based on her contact with the United Nations and Educateurs sans Frontieres… |
Sequence 192Here are some of the speakers and topics from the assembly in Burgos, Spain: • Winfried Bohm, "The Idea of Education… |
Sequence 195•Weare fulfilling a cosmic task. Montessori asks us to seek universality and to be conscious of the mission humanity has in… |
Sequence 198CONCRETIZING COSMIC EDUCATION IN INDIA: A MONTESSORI HISTORICAL ACCOUNT by Ela Eckert Ela Eckert's detailed account of… |
Sequence 205House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational… |
Sequence 207classes existed for students from the ages of six to twelve, but in Kodaikanal Maria Montessori developed cosmic education as… |
Sequence 208about this: " ... when coming to Kodaikanal, a whole new world opened up for Mario. He was mostly experimenting and… |
Sequence 209Because of its seclusion, the population of Kodai grew slowly despite the favorable climate, and always there were many more… |
Sequence 210and finally abandoned. Remaining are unique archives with histori- cal documents about the Jesuit missionaries in southern… |
Sequence 211children, the Swedish and the Jewish school, as well as a few Catholic schools for the children of Tamil families. How was… |
Sequence 212opened a small school, where she began working with four children and eventually, together with other Indian women, cared for… |
Sequence 213Maria Montessori probably was notable to appreciate the unusual diversity of nature with the same open-mindedness with which… |
Sequence 214Museum of the Sacred Heart College, founded by two priests between 1920 and 1940, was frequently visited by both Montessoris… |
Sequence 215attempts I made to dig out information about Maria Montessori's stay and work in Koda i. My inquiries were frequent! y… |
Sequence 216found herself for a time in a frustrating professional isolation: no official notice or acknowledgement of her work, no… |
Sequence 218switched to the KIS, where her parents worked) responsible for her lifelong interest in learning and education is quite… |
Sequence 224between human beings and the cosmos comes up over and over again. For that reason, Maria Montessori, with her discourses about… |
Sequence 225-------------------------------- ---- and Hindu religion deepened, the cosmic idea came to the fore. Shankar Dutta Panday, a… |
Sequence 226On the other hand: The gradually concretized splendid vision of a cosmic education developing into a comprehensive didactic… |
Sequence 228Millier, F. Max. Einleitung in die Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft-Vier Vorlesungen und zwei Essays, gehalten an der… |
Sequence 68LIBERTY: SPIRITUAL FREEDOM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY by Eduardo J. Cuevas Mr. Cuevas' universal article about freedom,… |
Sequence 128understanding of the complex planetary systems. In 2004, the world scientific community completed an extraordinary decade-long… |
Sequence 108COSMIC EDUCATION by Annette Haines Annette Haines makes a clear and well-doc11me11ted presentatio11 of Cosmic Education,… |
Sequence 117Montessori, Maria. The Secret oJC!,i/dlwod. 1936. Trans. M. Joseph Costelloe. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 35education of children. She prepared a children's chapel, called an Atrium, so children could have a living experience… |
Sequence 36Outdoor class, Esco/a Nocionol Montessori, Barcelona, I930s Cntatan folk dancing, 1930s Spain, continued lnstitucio… |
Sequence 98An Auspicious Beginning Small images from top to bottom: Dr. Montessori meeting children in Kotohena with the first… |
Sequence 128Movement and Silence, continued Children love silence and immobility and practice it spontaneously. One day [in Sevres,… |
Sequence 134Religious Education Such things, therefore, must appeal to their tender minds as the end of effort patiently sustained,… |
Sequence 142Sowing the Seeds of the Sciences "The eye that sees and the hand that obeys:• South Africa, 2006 Dramar:ic… |
Sequence 187Far Journey to the Southlands (Australia and New Zealand) We are indebted to Debbie Senoff-Langford of Chicago for graciously… |
Sequence 191Discovering the Universal Child (India) Adding to what has been mentioned on the Indian panel, the famed Gujarati educator… |
Sequence 11Dr. Maria Montessori's first work, Tlte Mo11/essori Method, was published in English in New York in 1912. It was an… |
Sequence 13short, Montessori's emerging spiritual identity in her work is the fervor of the reform movement. Sofia Cavalletti, co-… |
Sequence 162it has never been tried (37). Why not? But what does succeed in the character education of a human being, indeed, if "… |
Sequence 375The environment is fuUy equipped with Montessori materials and handcrafted furnishjngs made by Balinese craftsmen. The… |
Sequence 146"See," T said, "lww wise and strong somebody is, nnd l10wbrnve. See !tow 111ucft fte cared about… |
Sequence 260K\.1', is a , ibrant learning l'm·iron- ment and weltomes ;ipplication-, from qualif1l'CI \.1onte--"… |
Sequence 37to the Montessori-Pierson Estates, that gave me the possibility to do this very interesting (at least for me!) work. Let me… |
Sequence 100book of Nnture Study (1911) is still in print today and is a great resource for teachers. 4 Both Professor Bailey's and… |
Sequence 220It was home to a center of learning-the "House of Wis- dom"-that was dedicated to the translation and… |
Sequence 221Possible student explorations: • Why do cities fail? • Why are some cities marginalized in history? How can we determine… |
Sequence 228Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. More Dutch came, not to New York, but to Pennsylvania. The French came and settled in South… |
Sequence 20GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT: MONTESSORI EDUCATION AND PEACE by Lynne Lawrence and Megan Tyne Lynne Lawrence and Mega,1 Tyne… |
Sequence 86The question was raised earlier, What did nomadic tribes do with the old or disabled? In many tribes, there is evidence that… |
Sequence 206able and efficient way of life. Through this endless work, human beings have become the creators of a supernature, that whi.ch… |
Sequence 98SPANNING SPACE by Claude A. Claremont Claude Claremont's little treasure book Spanning Space is a11 imagina- tive… |
Sequence 234to go home and defend her borders, she left behind a rich reposi- tory of artistic, political, and architectural artifacts.… |
Sequence 122108 Part Two - For a Science of the Formation of Ma11 was white with snow! He made friends with Mario who as far back as then… |
Sequence 133School, Family and Society 119 committee included Ernesto Nathan. The trip also had the patronage of the National Education… |