| something about the life and times of the people. Two examples from
the United States:
"Old Texas." This… |
| Whenever possible, music and poetry may be related to things
children say. For example, once at the beginning of June, three… |
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| ANIMAL ALLIES
by Brenda Peterson
In a brilliant suspension of disbelief, Ms. Peterson, in her storytelling class
with young… |
| After three days of stories set on an
earth besieged by disease and
barren of nature, I made a rule: No
more characters or… |
| ... and he blew her head off. A bullet grazed my skull, too, and I blacked
out. When I woke up, Katie was gone, dead forever.… |
| A fierce commander of this hunt was Rat, whose army of comput-
erized comrades could read brain waves and call down lightning… |
| deadness Sarah carried, the violence that had hollowed her out inside,
the friend who haunted her imagination. But now her… |
| These are animals they have only
seen in zoos or on television, yet
there is a profound identification, an
ease of… |
| tween our bodies and the planet. As we told our Amazon stories over
the next week of class, gathered in a circle of animal… |
| of a Jaguar have probably forgotten the wild, black cat that first ran
with them as children. Imagination is relegated to… |
| complete-with
animals as soul mirrors. We remembered who we
were, by allowing the animals inside us to survive.
The dance is… |
| 102 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 24, No. 3 • Summer 1999 |
| THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STORY OF THE UNIVERSE
by Brian Swimme
Edited by Connie Barlow
This article portrays the… |
| We do not have a fixed Epic of Evolution that
we now announce as any final truth. We
have, rather, a profound grasp of some… |
| ments of the human species, a crowning intellectual achievement of
the modern age.
I would like to begin with a series of… |
| Though the discovery of cosmic and terrestrial evolution has
involved humans from a diversity of cultural backgrounds and can… |
| in the year 1000, we find a series of settlements around the planet with
a smaller number of hunter-gatherer bands that are… |
| are starving to death each year; or the hundred million humans
murdered in one of our twentieth-century wars; or the billions… |
| assumption that resources were infinite." Animal" and "extinction"
are not categories in… |
| The only community that
exists is the life community,
the ecological community.
And within the new story it is
this… |
| This task certainly will occupy the great volume of human energy
and human genius for the next few centuries at least. All our… |
| elites of western civilization have shielded themselves from the task
of transformation that our time calls for.
But still it… |
| THE POWER OF MONTESSORI' s POSITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
by Annette Haines
A bird's-eyeviewofthe… |
| today, came to you through your own energy, through your own
activity as a baby and as a child. The activity of the young… |
| consistency, which yet slowly so-
lidify, and, transforming themselves,
become stars and planets" (59, italics… |
| growing or dying, or becoming stronger or weaker, depending on the
richness of the banquet" (Katulak 4).
The outer… |
| Research on animals indicates that when an animal is quiet after
a period of exploration, many cells in the critical region… |
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they focus their attention, their energies, on a single… |
| Now this is a posi-
tive idea. Montessori's
psychology (unlike the
prevailing
paradigm
based on disease, test-
ing,… |
| hearts (131). This was in 1949. It is just as true-perhaps
truer-in
1999, fifty years later!
Our job as educators is to aid… |
| Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans.
S. J. Costelloe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967.
Montessori,… |
| ART FROM THE UNIVERSE STORY:
NEW MEANING FOR THE CHILD
by John Fowler
An ardent devotee of Brian Swimme, Mr. Fowler… |
| are the questions raised by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry in their
landmark work, The Universe Story. Their epic portrayal… |
| thjg broader vision, this new
story, has deepened our po-
tential inquiry into meaning
through a host of new lessons… |
| words of Bob Samples, Sir Isaac Newton, and Jerome Bruner as cited
in Samples' The Metaphoric Mind:
The inventive… |
| Yourn: But why say it's a green dragon when obviously it
isn't?
THOMAS: For several reasons. I call the universe a… |
| THE FIRST LESSON
To depict the origins of the universe to the child, I begin in the time-
honored tradition of storytellers… |
| The story that the children hear next is my personal version of the
beginning of the universe, the primordial flaring forth… |
| way. I asked only that the children write down any feelings or thoughts
which they had at the time. All children's names… |
| The music created a feeling of life.
Picture # 2: This picture is of a particle that was left and
joining with a negative.… |
| The Primordial Flaring Forth, by Brandy.
Alondra' s opening comments recal I Montessori' swords wherein
she… |
| edge? It becomes doubtful whether even the universe will
suffice. How did it come into being, and how will it end? A
greater… |
| THOMAS: This mysterious attraction that we call "interest"
is as mysterious, as basic, as the allurement we… |
| The Primordial Flaring Forth, by Julio.
she felt"cold and heavy like the water of a swimming pool weighing
me down.… |
| Held by the Sun
We are held by the gravity of the Sun. Jf it were not so, we
would be without the pattern of the seasons and… |
| Held by the Sun: The loving embrace.
Implementing a curriculum founded upon new themes in cosmol-
ogy has been rich. It also… |
| Light
Expanding, Radiant
Rushing, Giving, Receiving
It burns in all of us,
The Giver
REFERENCES
Cajete, Greg. Look to the… |
| NAMTANEWS
ADOLESCENT
RETREAT Is F1LL1NC Ur
As of June 21, more than fifty participants had registered to attend
NAMTA'… |
| NAMTA-SUPPORTED
AAAS CONFERENCE MAKES NATIONAL
HEADLINES
Approximately 30 Montessorians, along with about 300 theolo-
gians… |
| gland, takes a stiletto, if not a sword to the idea of a godless
universe of random pain and fleeting pleasures.
"… |
| Now ANNOUNCING
NAMTA's
Conference Year
(ON FERENCE
SCHEDULE FOR
1999-2000 ...
MONTESSORI FOUNDATIONS: PRIMARY… |
| CLASSIFIEDS
Alaska
Island Montessori School in Ju-
neau, AK, is looking for an AMI cer-
tified primaryguideforthc 1999-2000… |
| out the world. MMS is housed in a
uniquely beautiful facility set on the
shore of San Francisco Bay. It serves
two hundred… |
| sion plan, professional development
fees, tuition discounts & more.Nelda
Nutter (805-683-9383, 805-683-9384
fax,… |
| Christinia Cheung,
Executive Director
Pacific Rim International School
454 Peninsula A venue
San Mateo, CA 94401
(650) 685… |
| Street, Cortez, CO 81321 or phone
Fred Blackburn at (970) 565-4747.
Connecticut
Hall Neighborhood House, a rec-
ognized… |
| and an Assistant to Infancy. The
school is AMI Recognized with a
very supportive staff consisting of 2
lnfant Communities, 2… |
| expanding. We are seeking an AMI
primary-trained directress to start a
third class. The ideal candidate
would have at least… |
| The
MONTESSORI INSTITUTE
OFATLANTA
Primary Teacher Training Course
Certified by the
ASSOCIATION MONTESSORI INTERNATIONALE… |
| CMA; Post Office Box 14, LaFox,
IL 60147
e-mail: CarrneIMont@aol.com
Phone: (630) 542-1589.
Chicago Suburb. AMI recognized… |
| Activeparent-educationand parent
involvement. Send resume to Key-
stone Montessori School, Educa-
tional Directors,7415W.… |
| Allentown Rd., Temple Hills, MD,
20748; phone, (301)449-4442; fax
(301)
449-6695;
e-mail,
mogomaas@aol.com.
The Julia… |
| maturity, a must. Our Teacher /
Director has 25 years Montessori
teaching experience and values true
Montessorians. Send… |
| We are two hours from Minneapo-
lis/St. Paul or the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness! Experience
with preschool or… |
| loyola college in maryland
was in ton
Master's of Education (M.Ed.) In
Montesson EalC:allon lncorpoialtlag
AMI… |
| This is a new school that expects
expansion through age 12.
We would like an enthusiastic,
independent, self-motivated indi… |
| Wooster, a progressive rural com-
munity of approx. 26,000 is the
county seat of Wayne County,
approx.105,000. The beautiful… |
| school is committed to maintaining
beautiful, fully equipped classrooms.
The building is architecturally strik-
ing and was… |
| Orcas Island
Teacher/ Director
Orcas Montessori School seeks a
talented head teacher/ director with
at least three years… |
| Tortola, B.V.I. Apply by e-mail to
Mrs. Patricia Morgan, Principal at
morgans@caribsurf.com or by fax to
1-284-495-9802… |
| dergone extensive renovations and
expansion.
Our staff is solidly entrenched in
the school. Most of them have been at… |
| THE ARTIST IN EACH OF Us
by Florence Cane
Now available again in reprinr is the paperback edition
of the classic book chat… |
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NEW THIS YEAR FROM NAMTA ...
THE NORMALIZED CHILD, BY KATHLEEN FUTRELL
Kit Futrell's… |
| RECOMMENDED MONTESSORI MATERIALS SUPPLIERS:
In Montessori schools the environment is the principal teacher, and the adult the… |
| The Children
Deserve The Best
Working with Montessorians for over 65 years, we support all
major national and international… |