| The
NAMTA
Journal
Montessori History:
Searching for Evolutionary Scientific Truth
Volume 43, Number 3
Summer 2018 |
| The NAMTA JourNAl
Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Montessori History:
searcHing for evolutionary scientific trutH
What Is… |
| The NAMTA JourNAl
Montessori History:
Searching for Evolutionary Scientific Truth
Montessori History: Searching for Truth… |
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Kahn • Preface
David Kahn introduces Baiba Krumins Grazzini at NAMTA’s
2018 Cleveland conference.
PreFACe
Photo by… |
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MoNTessori hisTory: seArChiNg For TruTh
hisTory MAkes A JoyFul Noise
by… |
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Kahn • Preface
The Cleveland conference was presented in the perfect venue for its message: within the walls of the… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Louise Chawla is professor emerita in
the program in environmental design… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
PlACe-BAseD eDuCATioN AND CiTiZeN sCieNCe:
resourCes For… |
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PlACe-BAseD eDuCATioN
The heart of this approach is connecting people to… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
outdoor education, forest kindergartens, schoolyard greening,… |
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Demarest, Amy B. Place-Based Curriculum Design: Exceeding Standards… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
Krishnaswami, Uma. Beyond the Field Trip: Teaching and… |
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Sobel, David. Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
Children, Youth and Environments – special issue on “Place-… |
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oNliNe rePorTs
Clark, Delia. Learning to Make Choices for the Future:… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
Schools that Change Communities, 2013 (58 mins.)
Features… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Getting Smart – www.gettingsmart.com/categories/series/place-based-… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
for its success at such a large scale is the use of… |
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NestWatch – www.nestwatch.org
The goal of this project is to track the… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
closely with children, teachers, schools, and nature centers… |
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for tracking bumble bees, dragonflies, and Monarch butterflies. It also… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
that allow you to pool your observations with others. “Herps… |
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which point you will receive an email with the results. The GLOBE website… |
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Chawla and White • Place-Based Education and Citizen Science
Dickinson, Janis L. and Rick Bonney, editors. Citizen Science… |
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Shah, Harsh R. and Luis R. Martinez. “Current Approaches in Implementing… |
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Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education
David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
“It’s very hard to see us fixing the climate until we fix our democracy… |
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Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education
i
One answer is that we were not paying… |
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are more likely to live in cities and work in professions. We talk at… |
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Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education
straightforward: Politics, policy, and… |
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In 1977, political scientist William Ophuls argued, as did the authors of… |
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Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education
and in ways that we will not comprehend.… |
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Further, like those of Germany in the 1930s, schools, col-
leges, and… |
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Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education
Sengupta, Somini. “The Year Global Warming… |
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Gerard Leonard is an AMI trainer. He currently trains elementary teachers… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
This talk was presented at the NAMTA conference titled Montessori… |
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on human habitation, energy sources, and food production, and
on the… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
square kilometers at this time of year. They are the “grass” of the… |
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In her book From Childhood to Adolescence, Maria Montessori noted that… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
Look at the globe and observe how much of the surface area of our planet… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
on the coral, and of the many little shoals of fish they provide a home… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
One example of these keys are models for the elements hydrogen, oxygen,… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Lynn Margulis wrote in her seminal book Microcosmos: “These six elements… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
considered also a biosphere’s component, and so should products of human… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
the Earth’s body, like an animal’s fur, is essentially one with it, its… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
and most relevant insights from these great branches of learning to give… |
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Maria Montessori was well aware of the amazing work of the microbes (… |
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Leonard • Cosmic Stories and Contemporary Science
Marsh, George P. The Earth as Modified by Human Action: Man and Nature.… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Kathleen Allen, now retired from teaching, taught in Montessori… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
This chapter is based on a talk presented at the NAMTA conference titled Montessori History:… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Museums are an incredible source of knowledge and wonder, and it is our… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
NATure sTuDy
I have been rather immersed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries… |
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Anna lived what she taught. She was a gardener, a beekeeper, and a keen… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
Anna developed the nature study program at Cornell and trained many teachers in her long career… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) Swiss-German
Maria Sibylla Merian has a… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
of Amsterdam, and the rest from a sale of her artwork. Maria Sibylla was 52 and Dorothea was 21… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Emilie’s best known contribution to knowledge is her translation of Isaac… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
million years a mere episode of world-history. Such studies as geology and astronomy
help us… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
any kind of symbol, from words to musical notes. Ada imagined the… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
a gathering of the most illustrious figures in physics and chemistry. Marie Curie is the only… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
just waiting. Their waiting differs, however, in that the seed is waiting… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
When I was looking for a parallel quote from Montes-
sori’s writings, this one stood out to me… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Second, these words from Teilhard de Chardin:
The day will come, when… |
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Allen • Of Natural Science
Torrens, Hugh. “Presidential Address: Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme; ‘The Greatest
Fossilist… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
Lucy B. Laffitte teaches science in context from the big bang to the… |
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Laffitte • Big History
This chapter is based on a talk presented at the NAMTA conference titled Montessori History: Search… |
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plexity and by scale from largest to smallest. Let’s conduct this thought… |
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Laffitte • Big History
The fourth box would be overflowing with planets and moons, asteroids, and comets—the complex… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
So, what should be placed in the twelfth box in the very center of the… |
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Laffitte • Big History
Big Histories. We look at the narrative through different lenses—by asking how Big History informs… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
San Rafael, California, uses Big History as a first-year experience for… |
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Laffitte • Big History
q
Artist's logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe with the solar system at… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
David Christian is a distinguished professor of history at Macquarie… |
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Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
Reprinted from Origin Story: A Big History of Everything. London: Allen Lane/… |
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gunship, with its seventeen cannons and its ability to sail fast in… |
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Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
twenty nations signed the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which… |
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The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 43, No. 3 • Summer 2018
This research, combined with the invention of the transistor in the late… |
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Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
of modern statistical analysis, computers allowed governments, banks,… |
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problems most traditional governments had been able to ignore. The… |
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Christian • The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
thanks to the productivity of modern agriculture and modern advances in medicine… |
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TrANsForMiNg The BiosPhere
The fossil-fuel revolution and the Great… |