| THE
N.A.M.T.A.
QUARTERLY
volume nine
number three ---------
MONTESSORI HERITAGE:
A TRIBUTE TO LILI PELLER
Lili Peller… |
| EDITOR
DAVID KAHN
Assis1an1 Edi1ors
Kathy long
John Long
Artist
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| MONTESSORI HERITAGE:
A TRIBUTE TO LILI PELLER
volume nine
number three
Lili Peller and Me
Waltuch and Kahn… |
| Maria Montessori visits Lili Peller
These are changing times for Montessori in the United States.
NAMTA has recognized thqt… |
| Lili Peller and Me
an interview with Margot Waltuch
Kahn: Margot, tell us about your first contact with Lili Peller.
Waltuch… |
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Mrs. Pelter's Special Class with Seniors
John Dewey: "Experiences in Education," 1938
Quote what… |
| McGraw et. al. the article presents classical Montessori Principles. Let me find some
lines. "Development cannot be… |
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Kahn: What are some of Peller's views on day care?
Waltuch: Look at her "fourteen points." She gets… |
| 1 Exploring the Environment. There should be materials to manipulate, to explore.
Touching, pounding, squeezing, pouring,… |
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1 Personal Belongings are particularly essential when his school day is long.
1 Behavior Deviations. The child with special… |
| Montessori, Freud and Lili Peller
by Emma Plank
Emma Plank's brilliant introduction to Peller denotes not only Ms. Plank… |
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forging links between psychoanalysis and education. At that time Lili Peller had
already built up a model nursery school… |
| Lili Peller in 1966
independent. Following the pattern of their time and class, the real care of the child
was given to a… |
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In her university years her interest in the exploration of life became more specific:
She turned to the study of the child… |
| especially Italian so we would be prepared to understand her lectures when our turn
came to go to one of the international… |
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College. Her eagerness to bring insights of analytic psychology to teachers in practice
had found an outlet.
She had… |
| Notes:
'Freud, Ernst L., ed. The Leners of Sigmund Freud. New York: Basic Books, 1960. p. 319.
'The Reiss-Davis… |
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1946 "Incentives to Development and Means of Early Education," The
Psychoanalytic Study of rhe Child. II… |
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Lih Peller in 1he I 920's
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Incentives To Development and
Means of Early Education
by Lili E. Peller
Ms. Peller brilliamfy co111ras1s de11efopmentaf… |
| trauma has today been replaced by a patient and undramatic unravelling of early
tensions and unbearable deprivations. Other… |
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after a short time he no longer feels hunger, except at the precise time when his
training has taught him to expect his… |
| arbitrary. Accordingly, the educalor cannot sit back and wait for social compliance to
come. It is nol a natural development;… |
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efforts, and thus strictness is the key to successful education, according to Gesell "It is
better to do nothing… |
| and inches by which they pushed the child nearer to this goal.2
Gesell emphasizes that not every trait that appears in the… |
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Gesell has a highly discerning and also a loving eye for the physical development of
the child and some of its border… |
| developmental trends. A recent attempt to do so concerns the skin of the neonate;
since the days of antiquity midwives have… |
| myth Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx, but the child can neither solve nor by-
pass it.
At the climax of the oedipal… |
| widespread, by educators such as Pestalozzi, Froebel, and Dewey. Permissiveness
should be the keynote of early education, not… |
| Watering (Lauren, 1938) - Waltuch Collection
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| concepts overboard, although for the lime being there are no observational data
supporting the new concept.
In the genesis of… |
| Eating In Groups In War Time
Lili E. Peller
Ms. Peffers sociological and personal treatment of eating and institutions gives… |
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in an understanding and affectionate way. For the two- or three-year-old, the equation
of food and love still holds true;… |
| procedure is this: After the children have waited for one another to get washed and
combed, they have to wait at the door of… |
| of white aprons awaits the prospective "helpers."
Preparing food can be used for another purpose also. We… |
| shown before the child has even tasted the food. The more a child has experienced
severe oral or anal deprivations in infancy… |
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exceptions. Picnics have already been mentioned. They can be held not only in the
park or the zoo, but also on the roof of… |
| they may find it difficult to maintain the standards set, and if they resort to methods
that must be called brutal, the… |
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Preface to Vital Needs of Young Children
by Emma Plank
Lili Pe/ler's interest in creating the right environment as a… |
| illustrated monograph, wriuen by him and Lili Peller. on the plan for the building (see
illustration) and its utilization, was… |
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The Vital Needs of the Young Child
by Lili Peller
If the young child is to live and to develop into a normal adult, that… |
| Are we speaking of work in talking about small children? First of all, the concept of
work as used here is a biological, not a… |
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etc. These improvements are most welcome, but it is a cause for regret that this is
considered sufficient and that the… |
| have long been used in nurseries we have selected those which serve as raw material.
They give the child a wealth of the most… |
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the adult is needed throughout the activity.
Also, the child can more easily see the connection between his efforts and… |
| The Children's House
by Lili E. Peller
"We need in every part of the city units in which intelligent and co-… |
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would help tremendously toward improving standards without choking personal
leadership. This plan is not revolutionary or… |
| directly connected with the play room. French or sliding doors connect the play room
with the play space outside (be it yard… |
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| the youngsters, but we might mention the skill they acquire and point to the clever
principle of making legitimate a pleasure… |
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how much learning goes on in relation to "open" and "closed," or "connected… |
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for meals. They take up more space but the number of children seated at one table is
more flexible. One table may be a… |
| Child working - Plank Collection
and unobtrusive in order not to distract attention from the bright colored toys.
Too many… |
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child who has no chance of handling a key is deprived of an essential experience. Yet
he does miss something. The more all… |
| blocks. When blocks are stored in two distant parts of the room, groups of children
playing independently will be less… |
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Margot Waltuch - Heritage Maker
Margot Waltuch and NAMTA have produced an exciting new slide show
presentation of over I… |
| NAMTA News
Summer Institute - Splendor in the Grass
The NAMTA/AMI-USA
Summer Institute was a smashing event housed by the… |
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NAMTA Conferences
The Regional Conferences - Complete First Half
Three strong conferences in Washington. Minneapoli,. and… |
| Las, Chance a1 introductory price! First Issue 10 be released in la1e December.
NEW PUBLICATION: In THE BEGINNING
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NAMT A Presents a Practical Publication
for Parents
MONTESSORI
TALKS TO PA RENTS
NEWSLETTER
In parent discussions.… |
| Montessori is not just a school
It is a Way of life!
The following publications are dedicated to the Parent Contribution… |
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A PARENT'S GUIDE TO MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY is a school catalogue designed to
give parents convincing criteria for… |
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rooms. tO give the… |
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