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Sequence 60The Montessorian, in reading Socrates' Theaet,et:us, may begin to describe the Montessori vision with new vocabulary and… |
Sequence 61science, and as fu-st, universal. The aim of higher education is wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes.… |
Sequence 62This process is carried on at the elementary stage with reading and writing devoted to the child's research from many… |
Sequence 63Montessori and the Humanities means a clarification of goals. We have a saying in Montessori - "Montessori is an aid… |
Sequence 64The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of… |
Sequence 65THE ACTIVITY AND ART OF READING by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren Dr. Adler's cw.ssicrendering of the thinking… |
Sequence 66modems are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding. One of the reasons for this situation is that the very… |
Sequence 67more like the catcher in a game of baseball. Catching the ball is just as much an activity as pitching or hitting it. The… |
Sequence 68The G-08.ls of Reading: Reading for Information and Reading for Understanding You have a mind. Now let us suppose that you… |
Sequence 69cause this to happen are the various acts that constitute the art of reading. To pass from understanding less to… |
Sequence 70greater understanding available here than he possessed before he started to read. If he can manage to acquire that greater… |
Sequence 71about the world. But whether it is a fact about the book or a fact about the world that you have learned, you have gained… |
Sequence 72who must get well - grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis it is… |
Sequence 73that though a poet must use his imagination in writing a poem, they do not have to use their imagination in reading it. The… |
Sequence 74New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two… |
Sequence 75Montessori found the subject of great interest and referred to it often. Since she was describing mental processes which could… |
Sequence 76basis with a large number of infants show a definite pattern of develop- ment, with vowel sounds appearing first and then… |
Sequence 77mar is similar to Montessori 's nebula in that it is biologically based. The child learns language, he says, in the same… |
Sequence 78taneous differentiation and integration that constitutes the evolution of the noun phrase is more reminiscent of the… |
Sequence 79child during the preverbal period, he does not grow up in an impoverished verbal environment. From the beginning, the babies… |
Sequence 80rational behaviorist thought that the small child could hide within him "spiritual germs" or "… |
Sequence 81Lieberman, Philip. (1984). The Biology and Evolution of Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Moerk,… |
Sequence 82The Meaning of Ritual and the Child by Connie Blair As educators we speak of the infant as entering the "society… |
Sequence 83society. "Rituals are considered to represent only a negative dead- weight from the past." Margaret Mead… |
Sequence 84conscious renewal of ritual and celebration as a family is a way to return to the sacred from the clam or of the world. We… |
Sequence 85the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 86NAMTANEWS Public School Study and Media Products NAM'D\ is continuing it.s investigation of Montessori in the public… |
Sequence 87Key Library Promotion of NAM'D\ Media Expands Montessori Outreach NAMTh will promote its videos and publications with a… |
Sequence 88FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NORTH AMERICAN MONTESSORI TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION STATEMENT OF REVENUES, EXPENSES AND CHANGES IN… |
Sequence 89NORTH AMERICAN MONTESSORI TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEETS JUIX 31, 1988 AND 1987 Assets: Cash… |
Sequence 90r----------------------7 MARKET SURVEY WASHINGTON MONTESSORI INSTITUTE CONSIDERS NEW ELEMENTARY COURSE CYCLES FOR SUMMERS… |
Sequence 91Announcements A.M.I. Training Center Releases The Montessori Institute of A tlant,a has been reopened after a tempo- rary… |
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Sequence 93Personals Positi.cnis Available ALASKA Seeking Montessori Teacher, primary (3-5), AM/PM SY 88-89/89-90. Salary $17,600-24,… |
Sequence 94CONNECTICUT Well established AMI school in New Eng- land is seeking a certified AMI primary t.eacher for an established,… |
Sequence 95West Suburban Montesoori School seeks an effective, loving AMI pre-primary directress for January/September, 1989. West… |
Sequence 96teaching experience (administrative background preferred). Ability to pro- vide for professional development of fac- ulty… |
Sequence 97ENGLAND El.ementary in England. The first 3 Ele- mentary Schools in England are opening in autumn 1989. Unique opportunity… |
Sequence 98Cleveland State UniversitY, incor\junction with NAMTA and Nienhuis U.S.A., has formed a Montessori Public School Consortium… |
Sequence 99ADA PIERSON MONTESSORI - A FRIEND TO ALL On Saturday, October 1, 1988, the Association Momessori Inter- national,e General… |
Sequence 100A MONTESSORI OPERATIONS HANDBOOK FOR Tll!IC8fRS AND ADIIINISTRA10RS by David Kahn _ .... -- SPECIAL TO NAMTA MEMBERS… |
Sequence 101KAYBEE MONTESSORI, INC. APPROVED MONTESSORI APPARATUS • Infant-Toddler Material • Books • Furniture • Glass Bead Material… |
Sequence 102NOTES |
Sequence 103MONTESSORI Education for life. NIENHUIS MONTESSORI USA 320 PIONEER WAY. MT VIEW, CA 94041 (415) 964-2735 |
Sequence 1m VOL. 14, NO. 2 WINTER-SPRING 1989 in affiliation with the Aaaoc:iation Monteeaori Internationale |
Sequence 2F north american~ 111 .j i.!!! 8 • • II ... teacher•• ..,; WHAT IS NAMTA? The North American Montessori Teachers… |
Sequence 3The Mainstreaming of Montessori in America The Humanities, Research, and the Modern Sciences Editorial Mainstreaming of… |
Sequence 4As we make our critical debut with the educational com- munity, Montessorians must.find a balance between Mon- tessori which… |
Sequence 5THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled… |
Sequence 6curriculum spiral with a system of indirect preparation which is part of its philosophy of education. In the process of coming… |
Sequence 7implementation and teacher training approaches. Lastly, this Journal introduces still another problem of Montessori… |
Sequence 8Children ... are quite naturally inquirers, and for this reason the humanities as one of the domains of inquiry are quite… |
Sequence 9Humanities HUMAMITIES AND THE ART OF INQUIRY by Edwin J. Delattre Dr. Delattre's incisive summary of the role of… |
Sequence 10we have discovered ourselves, over generations, to be. As Maria Montessori-and earlier, Aristotle-understood, the natu- ral… |
Sequence 11for human beings," "the studies that make people fully human," and so on. Beware of such… |
Sequence 12His work brings to life the idea of inquiry as dialogue-the shared and cooperative pursuit of truth among people of knowledge… |
Sequence 13What holds for listening and speaking holds, too, for reading and writ- ing. For those who have difficulty engaging in… |
Sequence 14students were taught confusions. At times, assignments were framed so that "culture" was a sort of umbrella… |
Sequence 15in the l:,ook changed. How did circumstances lead them to alter their beliefs, attitudes, or behavior? Lee wrote a paper… |
Sequence 16government should be constituted-as seriously as anyone I have read or met. His many volumes of correspondence are laced with… |
Sequence 17questions in the inquiry of political theory makes that inquiry durable and permanent. It is grist for the intelligence of all… |
Sequence 18Eugene "Bull" O'Connor, a notoriously brutish man and a segregation- ist to the core. When efforts to… |
Sequence 19fifteen years earlier, as King knew, when Henry David Thoreau was in jail for. refusing to pay a poll tax because he believed… |
Sequence 20violence. They understand nothing of the nature of dignity that is a rightful part of their heritage, and they live in a… |
Sequence 21Lupus is an exhausting disease, but Flannery O'Connor was none- theless to make herself into one of the great writers of… |
Sequence 22passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it." She was deceived by very little; she was… |
Sequence 23to bits in the depravity of urban streets. And if you help your students to practice the art of inquiry by hard, detailed… |
Sequence 24LEARNING BY CLASS DISCUSSION 1 by J ournet Kahn The following transcript of Dr. Kahn's presentation in Minneapolis… |
Sequence 25our way of life possible, and produce a citizenry capable of solving its problems in a way that maximizes human development… |
Sequence 26friendship that results from sharing a noble human good. From this social learning community (referred to by Robert M.… |
Sequence 27Once this essential connection (between definition and result) is estab- lished, we can view some prescriptive techniques that… |
Sequence 28The great works of the human mind in the western intellectual tradi- tion fulfill this requirement in a preeminent way. The… |
Sequence 29clarity, consistency and persuasion than from the leader who guides them authoritatively from above, even where that authority… |
Sequence 304-A,C,D. To facilitate as leader is not to make difficult subjects easy but to make it easier for participants to initially… |
Sequence 31Let me however choose just a few that I think you would agree would be helpful in any view of class discussion. They may apply… |
Sequence 32proposes. The continuous movement between one's own ideas and text is the normal "work flow" for the… |
Sequence 33Elements of the Definition of Class Discussion I. An interchange between students, not primarily between stu- dents and… |
Sequence 34Teaching, like farming and healing, is a cooperative art. Understanding this, Comenius, in The Great Didactic, again and… |
Sequence 35Teaching, Learning, and Their Counterfeits (1976; 1987) by Mortimer Adler In "Teaching, Learning, and Their… |
Sequence 36learn is not enough; stimulation is not teaching. Since whatever can be learned by instruction must necessarily have been… |
Sequence 37transformed, and may even supply models to imitate, but without the intervention of the artist's slrill and causal… |
Sequence 38learning; nor can his superior skill in learning provide the learner with the help he needs in the process of discovery. The… |
Sequence 39Lecturing is that form of teaching which is analogous to the use of drugs and medication in the practice of medicine. No… |
Sequence 40hold, especially those acquired in the course of schooling? They have adopted them on the naked authority of teachers who… |
Sequence 41verbal; memory of mere opinions adopted on the naked authority assumed by indoctrinating teachers. The conception of the… |
Sequence 424. Most important of all, they should be so prepared for the profession of teaching that they understand their own primary… |
Sequence 43Montessori: The Humanities Connection Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal by David Kahn Montessori education may be a… |
Sequence 44There is a broad spectrum of interest in the six year old, and Mont- essori suggests accordingly that we must sow as many… |
Sequence 45Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is… |
Sequence 4642 He existed, Taaroa was his name, In the immensity. There was no earth, there was no sky, There was no sea, there was no… |
Sequence 47What is powerful-the most powerful link in Montessori work-is the integration of science and myth-for here within the story of… |
Sequence 48The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 49The sophists took the body of knowledge diffused thoughout the great mythologies and tried to classify it into areas of study… |
Sequence 50The generalist perspective has been cited by many a pedagogist and humanist. Werner Yaeger, in Paideia, describes the… |
Sequence 51MYTHOS LOGOS From Mythos to Logos - Comparison MONTESSORI PEDAGOGY ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE I SfORY OF LIFE ON EARTH l… |
Sequence 52not only connect with Montessori education-they may be indispensi- ble to the preservation and application of the Montessori… |
Sequence 53The humanities also deal with the interpersonal. The child learns to discuss, to interpret, to act out what he knows,… |
Sequence 54all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 55which integrates myth and science. The test of validity is the response of the child. How does the child make his own… |
Sequence 56Extending the Montessori Classroom Into the Library by Paul Clement Czaja When I reflect upon my growing years, I recall… |