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Moral
Development,
Character
Formation,
and World
Reconstruction |
| WHAT Is NAMTA?
The North American Montessori Teachers' Association
provides a medium of study, interpretation, and im-… |
| THE NAMTA JOURNAL
VOL. 30, No. 1 • WINTER 2005
MORAL DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTER
FORMATION, AND WORLD
RECONSTRUCTION
In… |
| MORAL FORMATION, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT,
AND WORLD RECONSTRUCTION
To WoRl< Is NOBLE, TO BEHOLD Is DIVINE… |
| THE ADOLESCENT ANO THE FAMILY: LOVE AND LIMITS .........................
by Linda Davis
PROJECT 2012:
HISTORY WHITHER BoUND… |
| To WoRK Is NoBLE, TO BEHOLD Is DIVINE
by David Kahn
When Montessori schools struggle with finances, admissions,
and finding… |
| the adolescent's concern with her destiny as "citizen of the world"-
it is all in this publication, put… |
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| PLACES FOR BELONGING: FROM WOMB TO
HOME TO MONTESSORI SCHOOL
by Judi Orion
Judi Orion chronicles,from a psychological and… |
| Montessori speaks about to occur, we must take the next step. We must
"give" this environment over to the… |
| dustpan." Returning to the area with the child, who was carrying the
broom, my attention was suddenly diverted by a… |
| cooking. This environment, though very poor, has created a new way
of life for these children, whose families, for at least… |
| A woman happy with her pregnancy, feeling support from her
partner, more likely will take care of her physical health than a… |
| become malnourished and dehydrated due to the inefficiency of the
placenta.
There is a basic environmental pattern… |
| these places remain consistent and unchanging. The baby is using
these established, consistent places as points of reference… |
| point of basic trust, is ready to turn away from the mother-world and
turn towards the larger world.
The father's role… |
| We become aware of the ending of the symbiotic period by the
baby's actions. Prior to this point, when nursing, the baby… |
| the newness, by all the stimuli that overwhelm our lives today. When
a baby is overstimulated there is generally one of two… |
| ties. Surely the establishment of a new family is more important-or
at least as important-as
organizing paper supplies, fall… |
| As a child is taken around and later walks around the school
environment, this environment becomes a "known"… |
| No parent is going to feel comfortable dropping their child off the first
day if they do not feel trusting of the adults in… |
| little ability to "put themselves on hold" until a space in the primary
is available. We can prolong their… |
| The primary teacher needs to observe the child in the infant
community to see them in their most normalized state. Most often… |
| Perhaps the child feels abandoned in the primary because the
adults there do not try to make a connection nor arrange for an… |
| Another personal story: My granddaughter was only seventeen
months old when her brother was born. Prior to the birth she was… |
| to is multi-cultured with children from a diversity of backgrounds and
having diverse physical and intellectual abilities.… |
| REFERENCE
Montessori, Maria. Manuale di Pedagogia Scientifica [Manual
of Scientific Pedagogy]. Napoli, 1935. Unpublished… |
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| MONTESSORI UNDER THREE: THE
FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN PERSONALITY
by Judi Orion
Looking at the roots of human personality, Ms.… |
| If we know that the foundation of personality
is created by age three, what can we do-
as parents and as adults working with… |
| It follows that the newborn child has to do a piece of
formative work which corresponds in the psychological
sphere to the… |
| 4. Adaptability to change: how long it takes a child to adapt to a
change-think
of children with transition challenges
5.… |
| viduality, their own unique set of characteristics, and to allow the
child to be who he or she truly is.
The imminent child… |
| more readily accept the differences expressed in others. The differ-
ences I am speaking of are those basic temperamental… |
| The attachment, which is created through early feeding (either
breast or bottle), forms a pattern of relationship that becomes… |
| refuse the food the mother is putting into the mouth. Eating becomes
a constant battle. Or a child who is less persistent will… |
| and two years and is tradition-
ally referred to as the "opposi-
tion crisis." The beginning of this… |
| If the adult does not see the value in limits and is not comfortable with
setting limits, then power struggles often will… |
| can't have what they want at the moment. Gradually, as impulse
control is gained, we see a reduction in temper tantrums… |
| We can have standards of behavior and
expectations about work, but the manner
in which we convey those expectations or
those… |
| ATTITUDES OF ADULTS
Another factor strongly affecting this emerging personality is
something very basic, something we refer… |
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of overprotection that originates in the genuine fears of the adult,
projected onto the… |
| Brazelton is a pediatrician, Dr. Greenspan an infant/ child psychia-
trist. Those six irreducible needs are as follows:
1.… |
| REFERENCES
Brazelton, T. Berry, & Stanley I. Greenspan. The Irreducible
Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have… |
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| SOCIAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT:
IMPORTANCE OF THE f AMILY
by John McNamara
This comprehensive view of social and moral… |
| of the reception the next day with these seven children, observing the
ones with spouses with their children as well as my… |
| time for independent investigation. The ability to make
my own decisions and manage my time gave me the
feeling of freedom,… |
| strength and character to live up to these beliefs throughout their lives.
We want our children to do the right things for the… |
| From an intimate and perceptive knowledge of parental a tti tu des
and values, children will form their own attitudes and… |
| but to love what is right and to have the integrity to act in a right way.
Cosmic education allows students not only to see… |
| Parents' greatest gift to their children is this gift of love. True love
requires a great expenditure of time and… |
| children because every moment is special, important, quality time.
Young children live in the moment; they are interested in… |
| oping into an adult human being. Parents also have to avoid putting
obstacles in the way of their children and avoid being an… |
| is reminding us that we have to focus on what needs to be done, on
what we can do, or want to do, and not be overly… |
| A few moments later, the young camel asks, "Mom, why have I got
these long eyelashes?"
The Mother replies… |
| Parents, with our help, need to develop a philosophy of parenting,
based on Montessori principles, that applies throughout… |
| for the church offered its young members clear param-
eters from which to choose their idols-idols that rose over
and above… |
| Morality is not just taking a stand on an issue. We can have all the
right ideas and still be a scoundrel in our personal life… |
| I would like to conclude with my daughter's speech to the 1998
Ruffing graduating class because it conveys very well, I… |
| treat your souls. So I will leave you with this: Be strong and
moral young men and women, and as you face the world
before… |
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| CREATING THE ALL-DAY MONTESSORI
PLACE: A CONSTRUCT
by Annette M. Haines
Annette Haines' well researched "… |
| HISTORY
The idea of a long Montessori day harks back to the first Children's
House and even before-when
Maria… |
| THE ENVIRONMENT
What kind of environment must we prepare for children who will
be spending most of their waking hours there?… |
| The dining room at Countryside Montessori
School, Chicago, Illinois.
could not gin up any real
interest while a very large… |
| In Montessori's original Children's House, there were no toys for
pretend play. Instead of dressing and undressing… |
| swimming pool for use in the summer. Computer Associates, at its
World Headquarters on Long Island, New York, has gone so far… |
| out and hang it on the line. Of course it freezes, but that's the way it's
always been done in Minnesota.
We can… |
| have to keep in mind the pictures of children long ago, walking
on a line in the grass and creating variations with the dimen… |
| so that the children ... can continue classroom work after the teacher
is gone."
At Countryside, says Annette Kulle… |
| Long ago, and in an all-day setting, Montessori felt that parents
should be able to "Go at any hour of the day to… |
| THE CHILD
According to Carol Alver, there are some observable behaviors by
the children who stay in the school programs all… |
| we had an after-school program, and on bad weather days we went to
the gym and the kids ran around like gerbils on a wheel,… |