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Sequence 4He was almost alone in supporting us, and although it was never possible for him to visit the various training centers, he… |
Sequence 12Montessori is first about the whole development of the person-the spiritual, intellectual, and physical human being. Our… |
Sequence 5She was a teacher, a leader, and a charismatic personality, but she was full of humanity and fun. She felt you could not live… |
Sequence 7ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 2South Africa is the southern tip of the African continent. A country of contrasts-from the trees of the dinosaurs to the… |
Sequence 5Ever since the "agricultural revolution," cultural evolution has tended to reduce the opportunities for… |
Sequence 13REFERENCES Aries, P. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1962. Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal… |
Sequence 7Montessori also speaks of the environment in a more inclusive sense when she speaks of a trinity made up of the child, the… |
Sequence 30In other words, what is needed now is a single integrated plan, both for each component aspect of the Erdkinder community and… |
Sequence 25Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992. Piaget,J. TheGtild… |
Sequence 4follow the interests of the children and our own interests, too. We must be readers, scholars, "storytellers of the… |
Sequence 5woman in Europe. Eleanor looked to King Louis for help and he offered his sixteen-year-old son, also Louis, to become her… |
Sequence 4center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human… |
Sequence 1DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 2) by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro presents an intellectual view… |
Sequence 10Guardini, Romano. Sacred Signs. Trans. Elinor C. Briefs. Westminster, MO: Newman Press, 1955. Jung, C. G. The Symbolic Life.… |
Sequence 3the child from scholastic slavery nor, even more, from annoy- ing results. The same Froebe I, whose education of children was… |
Sequence 3credit cards, lasers and the ball point pen. We lived before pan tyhose, dishwashers, dryers, electric blankets, air con-… |
Sequence 14If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
Sequence 2MONTESSORI AND Music by Elise Braun Barnett With the sense of discovery characteristic of a first-generation Mon tessorian,… |
Sequence 3Children do not listen in the so-called "grown-up manner," sitting quietly. They like to move with music.… |
Sequence 5Research on animals indicates that when an animal is quiet after a period of exploration, many cells in the critical region… |
Sequence 7this afternoon. Montessori suggested that children concentrate when they focus their attention, their energies, on a single… |
Sequence 8Now this is a posi- tive idea. Montessori's psychology (unlike the prevailing paradigm based on disease, test- ing,… |
Sequence 9hearts (131). This was in 1949. It is just as true-perhaps truer-in 1999, fifty years later! Our job as educators is to aid… |
Sequence 10Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. S. J. Costelloe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. Montessori,… |
Sequence 16Light Expanding, Radiant Rushing, Giving, Receiving It burns in all of us, The Giver REFERENCES Cajete, Greg. Look to the… |
Sequence 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 19REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,… |
Sequence 3But turning the matter over in my mind, I realized that the magic that drew me first to Montessori almost forty years ago is… |
Sequence 6Watching a three-year-old repeating a difficult-for him or her- exercise over and over again, the student observer sees… |
Sequence 7essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 10something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 1NURTURING THE RESPECTFUL COMMUNITY THROUGH PRACTICAL LIFE by Joen Bettmann Joen Bettmann 's depiction of Practical Life… |
Sequence 25Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.… |
Sequence 22serviceable in other aspects. I have often found a remarkable improve- ment in children's performance from the moment… |
Sequence 25REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 50REFERENCES Montessori, Maria." Advice to Teachers." Montessori Notes [publication ofThe Montessori Society… |
Sequence 53serviceable in other aspects. I have often found a remarkable improve- ment in children's performance from the moment… |
Sequence 99Montessori, Maria. The Absorbent Mind. 1949. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1992. Montessori, Maria. The Child in the Family.… |
Sequence 141NURTURING THE RESPECTFUL COMMUNITY THROUGH PRACTICAL LIFE by Joen Bettmann Joen Bettmann 's depiction of Practical Life… |
Sequence 183something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 186essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 187Watching a three-year-old repeating a difficult-for him or her- exercise over and over again, the student observer sees… |
Sequence 190But turning the matter over in my mind, I realized that the magic that drew me first to Montessori almost forty years ago is… |
Sequence 194REFERENCES Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion,… |
Sequence 224The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 33Montessori, Maria. "Child's Instinct to Work [Lecture, London, 1939]." AMI Communications (1973, #4): 6… |
Sequence 6This documented history was so absorbing that the chil- dren became entirely possessed by the situations. They started… |
Sequence 9The Greek word cosmic has four complementary and interwoven meanings. On its basic level, it means order and harmony; then… |
Sequence 19[Interview with Donald Brownlee]. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune February 5, 2000. Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in… |
Sequence 18gence; it also shows us how society itself-culture-became part of the dynamic process of selection. HENRY PLOTKIN'S… |
Sequence 28Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 10in homes characterized by a rational rather than punitive approach to discipline. Their parents, compared with those of other… |
Sequence 21Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Landes, William M., & Richard… |
Sequence 1MARGARET E. STEPHENSON: FOLLOWING THE CHILD ACROSS THE PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by David Kahn Margaret E. Stephenson's… |
Sequence 2Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. Miss Stephenson now lives in England, where she is an AMI lecturer, examiner, and trainer… |
Sequence 1Mario M. Montessori, late 1960s 1957 Advanced (Elementary) Course, London. Mario Montessori is fourth from left in front row… |
Sequence 18materials and took their spiritual territory with them to the countries they visited for materials. Where these visitors went… |
Sequence 2REMINISCENCES AND THOUGHTS ABOUT MONTESSORI DAY CARE by Margaret E. Stephenson I'd like to start off by saying that I… |
Sequence 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 3impulse towards work." 1 She had noticed that impulse in the work of that first group of children she was asked to… |
Sequence 2THE ADOLESCENT AND THE FUTURE by Margaret E. Stephenson I have read just recently in a London newspaper the obituary of… |
Sequence 28stressed that education for adolescents should address the fact that this is the time when the child matures and becomes a… |
Sequence 30REFERENCES Gross, Michael. Montessori' s Concept of Personality. Diss. U of Nebraska, 1976. Livingstone, Richard.… |
Sequence 9Montessori, Maria. To Educate tile Humnn Potential. 1948. Adyar, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1986. Montessori, Maria.… |
Sequence 32Koch, S., & D. Leary, eds. A Century of Psychology as Scie11ce. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Lerner, R. 011 the… |
Sequence 26once those excess synapses are gone, the critical period is over and it must make do with its existing circuitry; there's… |
Sequence 2Then, perhaps, we would have children and teenagers and also adults able to use language intelligently in a culture of… |
Sequence 22Deacon, Terrence William. Symbolic Species. New York: Norton, 1997. Montessori, Maria. Unpublished lecture. Dr. Maria… |
Sequence 8some segment of Montessori consciousness. Another such crystalliza- tion point, for example, was Mario Montessori' s 1956… |
Sequence 17The parents have to accept that you cannot give guarantees for one year. We can guaran- tee that we will get the child to a… |
Sequence 3MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL by H.J. Jordan Dr. Jordan, a collaborator with Maria Montessori, speaks of his conceptual framework… |
Sequence 1ciphers; and as many excellent pupils are produced by traditional schools, we must be careful not to equivocate and do… |
Sequence 3really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire… |
Sequence 4INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXTS CONCERNING ERDKINDER Excerpted from Winfried Bohm. International Montessori Bibliogra… |
Sequence 10you had finished your work. And with most things, you didn't have to ask where they came from because you knew. You had… |
Sequence 17Timeline: Montessori Secondary Development 1907-Rome: Opening of tht Ctlsa dri Biim&mi, the flm MonleSiori e,iperiment… |
Sequence 1THE DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro discusses the stages of movement in… |
Sequence 4To sum things up in Dr. Montessori' swords, "A creature can be led astray by something that is in itself quite… |
Sequence 1THE ASSISTANT TO INFANCY: A SPECIAL EDUCATOR by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro introduces the origins of the… |
Sequence 5been tried out in the home and in Infant Communities. 1 For instance, a low, large bed is a great help for the sensory and… |
Sequence 18Annan, K. We the Peoples. New York: United Nations Publications, 2000. BBC. Soul. Three part video series. London: BBC-TV,… |
Sequence 7a skill, then she must consciously work to improve it. As guides of children under six, let us not be in a hurry to bring… |
Sequence 21children we love and work with. Thank you for your attention. It has been an honor to share these thoughts with you.… |
Sequence 14Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood. 1936. Trans. Barbara Barclay Carter. New York: Ballantine, 1966. Montessori,… |
Sequence 16care about the development of the child. In a lecture given in 1939 in London, Dr. Montessori said: The child is not only the… |
Sequence 9We also know children have a special attraction to the natural world because when you involve them in design projects they… |
Sequence 15LEARNING TO SEE AND NATURAL SYMPATHY Here again are the words of Rachel Carson, returning to the theme that, yes, facts are… |
Sequence 22Chawla, Louise. "Significant Life Experiences Revisited." Journal of Environmental Education 29.1 (1998,… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 1 by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro speaks of how Montessori… |
Sequence 1A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 2 by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer' s caution that the best-laid plans do not… |
Sequence 2individually, whether your entrance in to Montessori was intentional or accidental. Why did you come? Then I thought, and… |
Sequence 3As I have said, I had decided I did not want to study, but having come into teaching I have never stopped. In the course of… |
Sequence 6environment that has been prepared to encourage and allow explora- tion. Very seldom-occasionally, but very seldom-yet… |
Sequence 11"This," she said, "is our hope-a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an… |
Sequence 39Juvonen, J., & K. Wentzel, eds. Social Motivation: Under- standing Children's School Adjustment. New York: Cam-… |
Sequence 9context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 35Montessori, Maria. From Childhood to Adolescence. 1948. Trans. The Montessori Educational Research Center. New York: Schocken… |
Sequence 1Baiba Krumins and Camillo Grazzini, 2002, Paris, France l06 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 4An example that can help clarify this is one given by Maria Montessori herself when she writes: [In the first period, there]… |