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| WHAT Is NAMTA?
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| THE NAMTA JOURNAL
VOL. 33, No. 3 • SUMMER 2008
THE FOURTH ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM
In aflilimion with the Association… |
| THE FOURTH ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM
THE FoURn--1 Mm,.rrESSORI ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM:
CONSOLIDATING THE WHOLE THIRD PLANE… |
| PEDAGOGY OF PLACE: DEEPENING ERDKINDER PRINCIPLES
WITHOUT THE FARM… |
| THE FOURTH MONTESSORI
ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM:
CONSOLIDATING THE WHOLE THIRD PLANE
by David Kahn
The goal of our inspired… |
| present in our society to emerge whole, recognizing that wholeness of
self also includes understanding the whole of reality.… |
| the Montessori principles originating on the farm, the full spectrum of
modified prepared environments cannot be seen for… |
| What is it? A mystery. Just as the newborn's mind is a
mystery, so is the social newborn a mystery. Each time we
find… |
| The NA~1TA Journal
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| Annette M. Haines
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The NAMTA Jo11nwl • Vol. 33. No. 3 • Summer 2008 |
| THE TODDLER AND THE TEENAGER:
A COMPARISON OF THE FIRST AND THIRD
PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT
by Annette M. Haines
A1111e/le… |
| develop or an actual exuberant overproduction of elements followed
by a selective weeding out.
After birth, the process… |
| the fact that full human consciousness does not present itself until
mid-adolescence.
As the adolescent becomes fully… |
| again, a period of great transformation and creation parallel to and (at
times) equaling the intensity of the first period.… |
| baby and young child is
"egocentric": He is selfish.
Everything centers around
him. It must. As Margaret… |
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A NEW "HORME"
Hor111e is the Greek goddess personifying energetic… |
| in early adolescence. Walking through autumn leaves, smelling them
burning, a certain kind of corduroy, certain colors of… |
| DEVIATIONS
SEEN AS NORMAL;
A SECOND POSSIBILITY FOR NORMALIZATJO
The teen years are dreaded by many parents, teachers,… |
| Montessori talked of the young child as being a "spiritual em-
bryo." In a sense, the adolescent is… |
| artificially designed), but more expansive than, the Casadei Ba111bi11i of
the earlier period. It meets Montessori's two… |
| The NAMTA Joumal
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| Linda Davis
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The NAMTA Joumal • Vol. 33, No. 3 • Summer 2008 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD PRINCIPLES:
AN Aro To ADOLESCENT PRACTICE
by Linda Davis
W/ien Lindn Davis noticed striki11g parallels… |
| Two-year-olds are sometimes called "the terrible twos." But in an
environment that meets their needs, they… |
| Of course, ultimately, we all have the words of Maria Montessori
to turn to in our quest for understanding.
To start, I… |
| sence of social existence. ft is a production and exchange,
which does not only bring in the people living near to one,
but… |
| to eat and drink to stay alive. Working up the triangle that Maslow
created, thenextmost fundamental need is physical safety,… |
| act of a mother breast-
feeding her baby. It
provides "the possi-
bility of a repeated
daily experience of a… |
| And, following from that, with language comes the ability to
develop and express complex thought.
How does this relate to… |
| period of life to have the possibility of fixing his relation
with social life, because in this sensitive period he is… |
| You are there but in such a way that they feel they are doing it on
their own. And in fact they are. We prepare the… |
| 4. The fourth thing to include is reflection. We have filled
the need for the distant world and local relationships; now… |
| hear a baby's cries in the next room and ignore it, saying, "Oh, babies
cry. They'll outgrow it."… |
| Benedetto Scoppola
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| Ps1co-AruTMtr1cA AND Ps1co-GEOMETRiA
by Benedetto Scoppola
Tlie introduction of the psycho-disciplines tlirougli Professor… |
| to the Montessori-Pierson Estates, that gave me the possibility to do
this very interesting (at least for me!) work.
Let me… |
| shall see and as we already saw in other talks of this conference (where
we faced the fact that in Montessori's mind the… |
| Details and correspondences thc1t passed unobserved for
a long time, suddenly become clear, like a revelation,
sending a… |
| Another very important and very nice general comment on the
"psico-" part of the books is the following:… |
| • Hierarchies (positional notation or place value) are presented
in a geometrical way.
Product, the distributive property,… |
| Figure 3
Figure 4
decomposing and recomposing actual geometrica I objects. This starts
in the Children's House, where… |
| Figure 5
Figure 6
the edge equal to the diameter of the circumference.
The in-
scribed hexagon can be materially… |
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Figure 7
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corresponding rhomboids, and doing the same with the red one, it
is clear that the sguare built on the… |
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[even] unlimited.[ ... ] and numbers, as T have said, constitute the
whole universe" (… |
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I would like now to list some further investigations of modern
pedagogy… |
| I made some experiments, in cooperation with Annamaria Capitani,
and I checked that this is true. If you make two identical… |
| a pentagon to a decagon-takes
smaller and smaller steps
as it is moved round. Lastly, the circle can be turned right
round… |
| ants walk around the two squares. Which ant will finish first?" This
test is failed very often by children up to… |
| a Montessori approach, materials helping children to ac-
quire one-to-one correspondence?
From my talk one thing should be… |
| Greg MacDonald
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| THE UNITY OF COSMIC EDUCATION:
INTEGRATING THE SUBJECT AREAS
THROUGH A SYNTHETIC VIEW OF THE
NATURAL WORLD
by Greg… |
| Science has gradually formulated a picture of the human mind,
and at this time in history we are refining that picture and… |
| • Engine
· Landing gear
• Lights
Each of these components will probably need to be analyzed
further. The engine, for… |
| cartoon show to appear here. But, look carefully: Beany is wearing his
traditional "beanie," composed of the… |
| The right hemisphere reasoned holistically, recognized patterns, and
interpreted emotions and non-verbal expressions. Nowadays… |
| were younger, or perhaps you have observed children engaged in
a similar pastime.
First of all, l eliminated the "… |
| How does all of this relate to the idea that "our usual compartmen-
talization of knowledge into those branches of… |
| The Story of God W/10 Hns No Hn11ds is the first of what Montessori
elementary teachers know as the Crea t Stories-A
series… |
| • One category of living creatures that the universe contains is
the human being.
• Human beings have brought language and… |
| Maria Montessori considered this idea a keystone in the education
of children: "Here is an essential principle of… |
| • Atmospheric Physics
• Climatology
• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Meteorology
... Which brings us to a question that second-… |
| ... They would go on:
2. Tl,c Jn/ling of rai11 is related to the properties of a solid (e.g.,
solids absorb heat more quickly… |
| hold all of the water vapor that it contains. Some of it
precipitates, becoming a liquid.
And you did ask: "Why does… |
| . Another is composed of air.
• Another is solid.
• Beyond these spheres of the earth is the "celestial sphere,&… |