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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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answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason…

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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answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 03 An Overview of Adolescence

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Erikson, E. Identity. Youth and Crisis. (New York: Norton Press, 1968). Erikson, E. The Problem of Ego Identity, Journal of…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 03 Low Income Families: A Reality of Urban Education

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With the move into the low income populations Montesserians will be able to address an oft voiced criticism of our work. Many…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 10 Montessori Education and Children Placed at Risk of School Failure

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third of all American children. Several states already have school populations where minority children are in the majority.…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 01 The Contribution of Maria Montessori

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10. Jerome S. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Universiry Press, 1966). I l. Alexis Carrel,…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 02 Discovery of the Child

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DISCOVERY OF THE CHILD by HiJdegard Solzbacher D,: Montessori, who was a scientist and physician and not a trained educa-…

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 01 The Importance of Montessori 2000

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THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar…

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…
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MONTESSORI 2000 New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC) was founded in 199 l by Lamar…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 03 Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education

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ground. New York: Oxford University Press. Opie, I., & Opie, P. (1985). The singing game. New York: Oxford University…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 08 What Are the Language Arts For?

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WHAT ARE TIIE LANGUAGE ARTS FoR? by Maxine Greene, Ph.D. In this passionate essay, Maxine Greene depicts the isolation- &…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 11 Philosophy and Practice: Primary Considerations for the Implementation of an All-Day Montessori Program

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Montessori talked a good deal about the "spiritual preparation" of the teacher(1936, pp. 115-123), and it…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 06 The Child and the Adult

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References Albe rich, E. 0972). Natura e compiU di u.rza catechesi modenza. Torino-Leumann: LDC. Aquinas, St. T. (tr. 1941…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 03 Nurturing the Creative Personality

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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…

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

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concrete, real, and relevant to the lives of young children; (5) provid- ing experiences for children that are outside of the…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 06 Education in Relation to the Imagination of the Little Child

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Greek art has survived all other arts as though it were immortal and superior to them all. Truth positively sought for is…

NAMTA Journal 21/1 03 Slide Show to Introduce What is Montessori Preschool?

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SLIDE SHOW TO INTRODUCE WHAT Is MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL? Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in Italy…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 09 What It Means to Follow the Child

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We might now continue our conversation with Montessori: "Now that you have returned to your studies, what are you…
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each plane, is where children have opportunities to engage in and implement their expanding humanness, this hierarchical…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 12 The Normalized School: Montessori as a Way of Life

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THE NORMALIZED SCHOOL: MONTESSORI AS A WAY OF LIFE by Mary Zeman Mary Zeman offers a definition of the "nonnalized…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 01 All-Day Montessori: Notes on the History of the Experiment

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ALL-DAY MONTESSORI: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT by David Kahn The catch phrase "all-day Montessori&…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 03 Theories of Play

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Bornstein, B. (1935). Phobia in a two-and-a-half-year-old child. Psa. Quart., 4. Erikson, E. H. (1937). Configurations in…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 04 The Casa of Sèvres, France

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The silence game outdoors. One day we had a special visitor on the lawnduringour silence-it was Mahatma Gandhi. He was…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 05 All-Day Montessori: Making It Work

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matters like eating and resting during the course of the day must be addressed. Should lunch be prepared by the children on…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 03 Evaluating Experiences in Adolescent Programs

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When Maria Montessori set up her first class environment in San Lorenzo in 1907, there were many educational scholars who…

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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answers or ideological solutions to the problems facing humanity. Furthermore, on the personal level, Montessori had no reason…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 07 Transforming Children into Storytellers

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in character as you switch from person to person. Many storytellers find that if they can put themselves into each character…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 01 Finding Flow in Montessori

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FOREWORD: FINDING FLOW IN MONTESSORI Imagine a river in time, a time span of one hundred years. On the one side there is…

NAMTA Journal 22/2 04 Flow and Creativity

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As they grew up in adolescence, almost all of these people felt, of course, marginal, because they did not conform to the…
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Every one of the people we interviewed has the same rhythm. It may be a daily rhythm, that is, they work alone from 7 in the…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 05 The Montessori Family and Me

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She was a teacher, a leader, and a charismatic personality, but she was full of humanity and fun. She felt you could not live…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 06 Montessori in South Africa: The Challenge, The Dream, and The Promise

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Prepare teachers through prolonged practice with observation of nature .... (Discovery 66-77) And when I talk about freedom…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 08 Revisiting the Process of Normalization

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Why is that? Why is that-especially in the face of the importance that Dr. Montessori gave to normalization? Is it that we…
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NORMALIZATION AS OUR PRIMARY WORK Perhaps this conference marks the next step in our development of Montessori's ideas.…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 09 Evolution of Adolescent Behavior

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Ever since the "agricultural revolution," cultural evolution has tended to reduce the opportunities for…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 13 Children's Participation: Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care

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Orr, D. W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY, 1992. Piaget,J. TheGtild…

NAMTA Journal 24/1 15 Story Upon Story

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follow the interests of the children and our own interests, too. We must be readers, scholars, "storytellers of the…
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woman in Europe. Eleanor looked to King Louis for help and he offered his sixteen-year-old son, also Louis, to become her…

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

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the child from scholastic slavery nor, even more, from annoy- ing results. The same Froebe I, whose education of children was…

NAMTA Journal 24/3 02 Artistic Expression and the Unfolding Self: Expressive Adults, Expressive Children

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credit cards, lasers and the ball point pen. We lived before pan tyhose, dishwashers, dryers, electric blankets, air con-…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 01 The Casa Dei Bambini: Primary Perspectives Through Time and Space

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THE CASADEI BAMBINI: PRIMARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE by David Kahn The vision of San Lorenzo, the Casadei…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 02 The Casa Dei Bambini: A Century Concept

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Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000
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THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 03 Foreword to The Secret of Childhood

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The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew…

NAMTA Journal 25/1 15 Obituary Maria Christlieb Robles

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The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew…
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THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from…
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Casa dei Bambini, San Lorenzo, Rome 4 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000
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THE CASADEI BAMBINI: PRIMARY PERSPECTIVES THROUGH TIME AND SPACE by David Kahn The vision of San Lorenzo, the Casadei…

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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A man whose mind is stored with the knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations…
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varies from stage to stage because of the way a child learns at each period of his growth and development. The adult, instead…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 03 The First Plane of Development

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his time, place and culture." 1 Within all life the germinal cell is endowed with a plan to bring the particular life…

NAMTA Journal 25/3 06 Cosmic Education

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impulse towards work." 1 She had noticed that impulse in the work of that first group of children she was asked to…

NAMTA Journal 26/3 22 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL by H.J. Jordan Dr. Jordan, a collaborator with Maria Montessori, speaks of his conceptual framework…

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

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ciphers; and as many excellent pupils are produced by traditional schools, we must be careful not to equivocate and do…

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

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INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXTS CONCERNING ERDKINDER Excerpted from Winfried Bohm. International Montessori Bibliogra…

NAMTA Journal 27/3 10 Cosmic Education: Linking the Human to the Universe

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You will notice that I talk about contents. Cosmic education, among other things, is about what to put before the children.…

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

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Annan, K. We the Peoples. New York: United Nations Publications, 2000. BBC. Soul. Three part video series. London: BBC-TV,…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 05 The Whole Elementary Experience: Ages Six to Twelve

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as a model for the "Children's House" of San Lorenzo. Montessori gave the name "Erdkinder,…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 06 The Six-toTwelve Working Model

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The fundamentals of freedom and responsibility are paramount in the healthy functioning of such a class. The two must be kept…

NAMTA Journal 28/1 10 Bonding with the Natural World: The Roots of Environmental Awareness

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We also know children have a special attraction to the natural world because when you involve them in design projects they…
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Chawla, Louise. "Significant Life Experiences Revisited." Journal of Environmental Education 29.1 (1998,…

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

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of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering!" Once this…

NAMTA Journal 29/1 09 Question and Answer: The Environment for the Six to Twelve Year Old Child

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Baiba Krumins and Camillo Grazzini, 2002, Paris, France l06 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004

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 13 Maria Montessori's Cosmic Vision, Cosmic Plan, and Cosmic Education

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MARIA MONTESSORI'S COSMIC VISION, COSMIC PLAN, AND COSMIC EDUCATION by Camillo Grazzini INTRODUCTION Some time ago I…
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And also: "This solidarity between human beings, which projects itself into the future and is sunk in the remotest…

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 22 Camillo 26-01-04

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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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And also: "This solidarity between human beings, which projects itself into the future and is sunk in the remotest…
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MARIA MONTESSORI'S COSMIC VISION, COSMIC PLAN, AND COSMIC EDUCATION by Camillo Grazzini INTRODUCTION Some time ago I…
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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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Baiba Krumins and Camillo Grazzini, 2002, Paris, France l06 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004

NAMTA Journal 29/3 01 Muriel Dwyer: A Lifelong Explorer of a Montessori Kind

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There are two groups of children, two "Case" that I can never forget (there are pictures of them in the hall…
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Dwyer, Muriel. "Opening of the 52nd Montessori Interna- tional Course in Child Development." Montessori…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 05 Creating the All-Day Montessori Place: A Construct

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3. with large amounts of open, uninterrupted time for free choice. So even in the face of changing times we must hold to…

NAMTA Journal 30/1 11 Project 2012: History Whither Bound from Childhood to Adolescence?

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Bruner, Jerome. "Man: A Course of Study." Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1966…

NAMTA Journal 30/2 12 Montessori Without Borders

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life, and I have had several opportunities throughout these years to work in this area. In one occasion, during the time that…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 05 Envisioning the Whole Third Plane: Montessori Erdkinder and Urban Adolescent Programs Help Each Other

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ENVISIONING THE WHOLE THIRD PLANE: MONTESSORI ERDKINDER AND URBAN ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS HELP EACH OTHER by David Kahn David…

NAMTA Journal 31/1 27 The Montessori Potential at the Grove School

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dable task. The need for facilities, general funding, staffing, and the increasing demands of the post-secondary community all…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 07 The Sensorial Awakening: The Child under Six Immersed in the Natural World

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pages. Uniquely, the main character describes the world completely through his olfactory experiences. Suskind is so skilled…

NAMTA Journal 31/2 12 The Adolescent: Taking on the Task of Humanity – Conducting the Dialogue Between Nature and Supranature

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work together, move forward in history. This is what the adolescent must experience and absorb: division of labor, the…

NAMTA Journal 31/3 04 A Brief Theoretical Note and Exempla Drawings Toward a Montessori Architecture

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tempt a mind/body to think, to discover order in phenomena, to gain an intense pleasure in the process, and to become…
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the structure itself should function for contemporary children as an essential part of the prepared Montessori environment.…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 02 Of Heroes and the Heroic: Reflections on the Early Life and Achievements of Maria Montessori

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declared that she would dedicate herself to pedagogy. Then she began her studies of the learning problems of normal children…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 03 The Light of the Child

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THE LIGHT OF THE CHILD by Dr. Maria Montessori First published in 1957 by AMT inn special booklet com111e111orating fifty…

NAMTA Journal 32/1 09 Montessori Education in Exiled Tibetan Children's Villages

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Englishwoman Annie Besant in Paris, who was at that time president of the International Theosophical Society. Besant had lived…

NAMTA Journal 32/3 01 The NAMTA Centenary Exhibit

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contacted Dr. Montessori to help with an urban renewal project in the San Lorenzo District of Rome. The press referred to…
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What They Showed Us One day, in great emotion, I took my heart in my two hands as though to encourage it to rise to the…
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A History of War and Peace "Enchance. Mademoiselle." An exercise in grace and courtesy, Paris, 1918…
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There was not a separation between indoors and outdoors.. . . Laughingly, we used to say, "There is never any bad…
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Factory where handicapped war veterans manufactured furniture and materials for Montessori classes, Paris, I 9 I 8 France,…
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Display Case Practical life and language materials from La Maison des Enfants, Sevres (Paris), France, I 930s This case…
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Practical Life and Language Materials, continued From 1933 to 1938, Margot Waltuch was a directress at La Maison des Enfants…

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