| history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and
enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
| 9. Ehrlich, Paul R. The Mcu;kin.ery of Nature: The Living World Around Us - And How It Works
(New York: Simon and Schuster,… |
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"Conducting a class discussion thus requires a greater
and more subtle talent… |
| CLASS DISCUSSION
A Scenario For The Trivium
by Journet Kahn
Dr. Kahn looks at the liberal arts of logic, grammm; and… |
| themselves into philosophy, theology and the Scriptures.2 Especially
the trivium, these arts called for a sharpening of the… |
| immediately oversee the development of these arts in the relations
between the student discussants, while simultaneously… |
| if he establishes this alleged superiority by making evident that those
who claim wisdom (politicians, poets and artisans)… |
| to discourse daily about virtue and self-examination. But he finally
proposes a small money offering· guaranteed by his… |
| perfectly normal thing to do.
Ms. A: Yes, I think that's what I mean.
Mr. B: Well, aren't some strange behaviors… |
| feelings of others. Why couldn't he pursue his mission and still be
accepted by others? Seems to me he'd have a… |
| Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money,
power and fame are evils, as Socrates says.
Mr. B: I… |
| Ms. A: Yes, that's why oratory would fail too. Even a speech in a
grand style would fail where experience and feelings… |
| Ms. A: Well, man does some things that don't require a body.
Leader: Such as ...
Ms. A: We think. And therefore thinking… |
| Mr. B: But conscience urges us to do right, not just to keep from
doing wrong.
Mr. C: Well, maybe we really don't need… |
| Passive listening to an external authority is replaced by an active search for
the best means of expression and communication… |
| 14. A tight logical argument is implied here. Socrates could convince only a
person of virtue. But the jurors were not… |
| seeking martyrdom by not saving himself? Or is there a real opposition
between surviving in Athens and obeying the gods? In… |
| 3. Follow up each answer with a further question which itself has more than one
answer.
4. A class discussion ideally has a… |
| WHOLE BOOKS AND BEGINNING READING
by Mary Maher Boehnlein
Dr. Boehnlein discusses the use of good literature in developing… |
| would not help the child discover the essential understanding of the rela-
tionship of language and print, of meaning and… |
| some basal reader stories backwards and not know that you have done
so. But you can't read quality literature backwards… |
| process, rather than a grunt and groan process, the task becomes
doubly hard. The first reading book we give children should… |
| "The readings we used were numerous and of great variety: fairy tales,
short stories, anecdotes, novels, historical… |
| to the discovery of the value of motifs and symbols in intensifying
the meaning of that remarkable story. The story fits… |
| topographical features mentioned in each tale or look at beginnings
and endings.
Children can write further adventures of a… |
| - the syntax or predictable structure of the language.
For example, at the simplest level beyond pictures and labels, a book… |
| language approach in which all aspects of language study support the
acquisition of meaning from print and from oral… |
| Useful Sources of Professional and Children's Books
American Library Association
60 East Huron Street
Chicago, Illinois… |
| OFT-TOLD TALES
by David H. Millstone
With Homer as thefr guide, Vermont elementary students spend six
months in a voyage to… |
| this process has helped create strong friendships across grade levels.
Pictures in Your Mind
THE
CHILDREN'S
HOMER… |
| ness or sneakiness;' "love" and "bravery" are among the many ideas
that appear on… |
| the reading. Our older children are trained in writing process confer-
ences; they begin with positive comments, and only… |
| my students how they found a practice audience:
*"My little brother and sister."
*"My morn when… |
| projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an
animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
| THE EVOLUTION OF A
CHILD-CENTERED CURRICULUM
by Leelavati M'Rao
In the history of education, educationists had in their… |
| present, the oriental peoples were tied to the past and it was therefore
called "education by recapitulation.&… |
| tell the young because anything that he receives into his mind at that
age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and… |
| Plato's educational proposals also arouse distrust because to preserve
the unity of the State, he destroys the family as… |
| given to childhood.
Quintilian divides the training of an orator into three stages: (a) the
early stage of home education up… |
| women, though from his saying that both the parents should be cultured
we may draw the conclusion that girls also were to be… |
| education to the sixth year, he formulates certain principles for the
education of children at home by the mothers who ought… |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau
More than proclaiming the rights of man, Rousseau was the champion
of the rights of childhood. Before… |
| place in the sequence of human life, the man must be treated as a man,
and the child as a child. Give each his place;'… |
| Negative Education
Rousseau says, "let him be disposed to respect the individual, butl to
despise the multitude&… |
| abilities, that were entirely absent from the schoolroom in the previous
ages. Consequently, attention of educationists was… |
| the whole man completely for manhood. Manliness implied the training
of hand, head and heart. The pw-pose of education is not… |
| importance of this principle is fully recognized in modern methods of
Nursery Education.
Pestalozzi deserves the credit for… |
| "apperception-masses." The aim of education is to present the new
material in such a way that it can be… |
| stages, namely (a) preparation; (b) presentation; (c) comparison and
abstraction; (d) generalization; and (e) application.… |
| the work of the classroom. His principles of correlation and concentra-
tion are adopted in modern educational practice.… |
| forming of the given material. For example, the first gift is a box
containing six woollen balls of different colors. The… |
| THE THREAD OF LIFE
Children Who Have Cancer
by Monique Baudet
Preface by Dr. R. Calle
Epilogue by Dr. J.M. Zucker… |
| 96 |
| THE THREAD OF LIFE
by Monique Baudet
PREFACE
by Dr. R. Callee
The thread of life: if it holds, it takes on a shape of its… |
| The sick body draws itself, the "body without organs" of the philoso-
phers illustrates itself, evicted,… |
| Children, Art And Illness
A few moments after the opening of the play room at the Curie Insti-
tute, where children who have… |
| David (age 5, drawing No. 1) the day before he left the hospital, with a
nasal tube still in place, draws a picture for the… |
| Georges (age 3½, drawing No. 2) a little blond, tanned boy, speaks
only Portuguese. In the evenings, when he leaves, his… |
| Abdallah (age 6, drawing No. 3) draws a picture of himself but because
his hips and one leg are in a cast and he is unable to… |
| No.5
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P. (age 8, drawing No. 6) draws
an 18-month-old child to whom he
has grown very close and who has
had an eye… |
| No.7
"I can't seem to get well again; I
want to, but I can't .... " Shortly
thereafter, I… |
| Nadaine (age 16, drawing No. 8), who was under treatment, drew a
magnificent, well-proportioned tree in a setting full of… |
| No. 10
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Boumlod (age 5, drawings Nos. 10, 11… |
| Then, as he recovers and returns for regular check-ups, he mainly
draws Spiderman or Superman "who fight and win;… |
| Jean-Etienne (age 7, drawing No. 13), after several months' treat-
ment, brings us this drawing in which "even… |
| No.14
Serena (age 8, drawing No. 14). In the playroom where she sits, four
children, two of them teenagers, a boy and a girl… |
| RADIOTHERAPY
I would also like to illustrate through graphic art the impact of radio-
therapy treatment on children.
These… |
| No.15
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Natalie (age 7, drawing No. 15), begins to specify what surrounds her.
However, the face has no features. The lead… |
| No.17
Olivier (age 5, drawing No. 17) feels he is very tiny on the table.
No.18
Ali (age 6, drawing No. 18) seems strongly… |
| No. 19
Geraldine (age 7, drawing No. 19) drew the sun to represent the
machine. She's smiling. She was one of the few… |
| No.21
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Daniel (age 8, drawing No. 21) drew himself from the back, seen from
above, because he was receiving radiation on… |
| No.23
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Jerome (age 9, drawing No. 23) drew all the machine's technical details
as… |
| No.25
Laurent (age 7, drawing No. 25) shows the apparatus as if it were
about to crush him, small and weak in the face of a… |
| Patrice(age 10, drawing No. 27) does a very neutral, "aseptic;' precise
drawing, without any color when the… |
| Emmanuel (age 9, drawing No. 28) is a child who does not like to
discuss his illness, at least most of the time. He needed to… |
| No.29
Nathalie (age 12, drawing No. 29), who has her leg in a cast for the
moment to avoid possible fractm·e, included her… |
| Jean-Alain (age 13, drawing No. 31) had only one wish all through his
treatment-to go back home. He draws no enclosures,… |
| No.
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Franck (age 13, drawing No. 32) draws an overall view of the room. All
through his treatment he refuses to be… |
| No.34
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Philippe (age 15, drawing No. 34) did a very colorful and… |
| Christophe (age 12, drawing No. 36) resumed in comic strip form what
radiotherapy is like. The last picture shows his return… |
| EPILOGUE
by Dr. J.M. Zucker
The variety and richness of the drawings proposed in this collection
give evidence not just of… |
| NAMTANEWS
PRACTICAL LIFE WORKSHOP:
A CROWN JEWEL
In Washington, D.C., October 20, 21, 22, 1989, the NAMTA Practical
L~fe… |
| North America than Margaret Stephenson. Her thirty years here have
been singlemindedly given to building teacher education.… |
| Delattre presented his comprehensive view on "Generous Understand-
ing." His eloquence and moral urgency… |
| intended to broaden the perspective of the participants, thereby lending
greater sensitivity to the variety of peoples served… |
| Audrey Sillick, a Montessori trained naturalist, directs the program
which focuses on the Montessori classroom both indoors… |
| charge as the last journal for that membership year.
For more information, contact David Kahn at (216) 371-1566.
ANNOUNCING… |
| grated part of the intellectual lives of teachers, children, and their ways
of making sense of the world."
For… |
| NAMTANEWS
NORTH AMERICAN MONTESSORI TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT OF REVENUES, EXPENSES
AND CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE… |
| NORTH AMERICAN MONTESSORI TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
BALANCE SHEET
JULY 31, 1989 AND 1988
1989
Assets:
Cash… |
| Personals:
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CALIFORNIA
RRIGHT STAR MONTESSORI SCHOOL is
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| possess humor and wide-ranging interests. They
respond well t.o an adult of similar mind. Our
area is rural yet close to… |
| MICHIGAN
9-12 TEACHER. Excellent, well-established
school seeks experienced 9-12 teacher. Located
in beautiful new 11,000 sq… |
| TENNESSEE
Administrator for established Montessori school
with 3-6 and 6-9 dasses; adding 9-12, fall, 1990.
New facility on… |
| Lovely country setting located 1 hour from
Jersey seashore and within easy commute of
Philadelphia with its fine educational… |
| Richard Salzmann
Died December 2, 1989
Richard Salzmann was an inspiration to the Montessori movement.
He had the fire of a… |
| THE MONTESSORI
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an affiliate of the
e
Association Montessori lnternationale
announces
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