| The
NAMTA
Journal
The
NAMTA
Journal
Practical Life—A Transforming
Realization from Birth to Adulthood
Volume 38 Number… |
| What Is NaMta?
The North American Montessori Teachers’ Association
provides a medium of study, interpretation, and im-… |
| In affiliation with the Association Montessori Internationale, The NAMTA
Journal is edited and published three times per year… |
| Practical life–a transforming
realization from Birth to adulthood
Preface: Practical life–a transforming
realization from… |
| Playful learning and montessori education ..............................
by Angeline S. Lillard
triBute to mother francine… |
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Kahn • Preface: Practical Life
Preface: Practical life–
a transforming realization from
Birth to adulthood
by David Kahn… |
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a
appreciation and community valorization for what they can produce,… |
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Kahn • Preface: Practical Life |
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A.M. Joosten |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
exercises of Practical life:
introduction and list
by A.M.… |
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One need not be a con-
scious and trained observer
to have noticed that… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
this understood and willed purpose they therefore give… |
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Looking After the Inanimate Environment
2.
(dusting, cleaning, washing,… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
practical life have to be carried out will have to be prepared… |
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to time. The children should be able to recognize the
material and its… |
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Multiple sets.
9.
It is characteristic of the material to… |
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in cloak-room, brass on window and door-handles
etc.). The former have… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
Which form of presentation is to be adopted de-
2.
pends on… |
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a group activity) can be given to an individual child, but not col-… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
under the guidance of his intelligence and spurred on by his… |
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The following chart gives a detailed survey of the various steps
in… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
continued on the following page
IV.
Fetchthematerialneeded… |
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continued on the following page
3. Shortverbalsummaryofoutstandingpoints… |
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continued on the following page… |
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The exercises of practical life then are means for an all-around
human… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
girls, they lay a foundation, or more correctly, help the… |
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How to talk softly, but audibly.
4.
To go near a person before… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
sharp edge turned leftwards): pencils, pens, cutlery,… |
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How to turn the pages of a book, photo-album etc.
27.
How to light and… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
Crushing with special tools for the preparation of
44.… |
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Use of dustpan and brush.
4.
Sweeping (a limited space should be… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
Laying and clearing a table and preparing the needful
20.… |
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Watering plants, flower-beds, lawns (watering-can,
7.
water-pots, hose… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
Bathing of the eyes. Applying eye-black, (Kajal).
4.
Care… |
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How to pleat (sari, dhoti)
3.
How to plait (first with 3 differently… |
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Joosten • Exercises of Practical Life: Introduction and List
How to touch the feet.
4.
How to perform religious gestures… |
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Courtesy while ascending and descending steps or
21.
stair-cases.
How… |
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To avoid touching others without real necessity.
35.
How to… |
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How to avoid waste of public utilities (close taps
12.
left open, etc… |
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Older child teaches a younger child the bow tying frame,
Sèvres, France… |
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Montessori • Movement and Character
movement and character
lecture, london, 1946
by Maria Montessori
Dr. Montessori’s… |
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Just a skeleton. Think of
this: The purpose of the
skeleton is to… |
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Montessori • Movement and Character
The body is like a very complicated mechanical machine that
can be studied. The mind… |
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behavior. Whichever way, each man must prepare for some purpose,… |
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Montessori • Movement and Character
done in his environment, which are natural exercises. When we of-
fer him the… |
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You cannot have effort without interest and purpose. There is
no… |
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Montessori • Movement and Character
nastics. It also develops ability, for this child had to be very careful
not to spoil… |
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viations are cured. The difficult child becomes a happy, nice child.… |
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Uma Ramani |
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Ramani • Practical Life: The Keystone of Life, Culture, and Community
Practical life: the Keystone of life,
culture, and… |
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a constant interaction between the individual and his environment.
The… |
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Ramani • Practical Life: The Keystone of Life, Culture, and Community
and art. These ways of doing things become part of… |
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time and human beings themselves have realized their potential in… |
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he do this? Any action is an expression of a thought… |
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Our culture changed as new ways of doing things became part of
our… |
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her use of the term exercises
of practical life… |
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The new education consists not only in supplying the
means of… |
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Polli Soholt |
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Soholt • Practical Life for the Older Children in the Casa
Practical life for the
older children in the casa
by Polli… |
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that it should be able to function by itself. In order to grow
and to… |