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Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 6In designing the curriculum we took into consideration four main areas: the school's expressed purpose, our view of… |
Sequence 7are to be expected and even desired for they contain information essential for further learning. For students to discover and… |
Sequence 8tons of assignments, how is he or she going to do his or her best. Not only does the student feel frustrated, the student will… |
Sequence 9interest, not to teach or to explain something. Again less is more - present too little, not too much. It is the student'… |
Sequence 1The Humanities MONTESSORI: THE HUMANITIES CONNECTION Minneapolis, March 2, 3, 4, 1989 by David Kahn Minneapolis marks a… |
Sequence 2Maria Montessori was well versed in philosophy. Her footnotes include allusions to Sequin, Tolstoi, Froebal, Pascal, Poincare… |
Sequence 3The Montessorian, in reading Socrates' Theaet,et:us, may begin to describe the Montessori vision with new vocabulary and… |
Sequence 4science, and as fu-st, universal. The aim of higher education is wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge of principles and causes.… |
Sequence 5This process is carried on at the elementary stage with reading and writing devoted to the child's research from many… |
Sequence 6Montessori and the Humanities means a clarification of goals. We have a saying in Montessori - "Montessori is an aid… |
Sequence 1THE ACTIVITY AND ART OF READING by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren Dr. Adler's cw.ssicrendering of the thinking… |
Sequence 2modems are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding. One of the reasons for this situation is that the very… |
Sequence 3more like the catcher in a game of baseball. Catching the ball is just as much an activity as pitching or hitting it. The… |
Sequence 4The G-08.ls of Reading: Reading for Information and Reading for Understanding You have a mind. Now let us suppose that you… |
Sequence 5cause this to happen are the various acts that constitute the art of reading. To pass from understanding less to… |
Sequence 6greater understanding available here than he possessed before he started to read. If he can manage to acquire that greater… |
Sequence 7about the world. But whether it is a fact about the book or a fact about the world that you have learned, you have gained… |
Sequence 8who must get well - grow in health. The farmer does many things for his plants or animals, but in the final analysis it is… |
Sequence 1New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two… |
Sequence 2Montessori found the subject of great interest and referred to it often. Since she was describing mental processes which could… |
Sequence 3basis with a large number of infants show a definite pattern of develop- ment, with vowel sounds appearing first and then… |
Sequence 4mar is similar to Montessori 's nebula in that it is biologically based. The child learns language, he says, in the same… |
Sequence 5taneous differentiation and integration that constitutes the evolution of the noun phrase is more reminiscent of the… |
Sequence 6child during the preverbal period, he does not grow up in an impoverished verbal environment. From the beginning, the babies… |
Sequence 7rational behaviorist thought that the small child could hide within him "spiritual germs" or "… |
Sequence 8Lieberman, Philip. (1984). The Biology and Evolution of Language. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Moerk,… |
Sequence 1The Meaning of Ritual and the Child by Connie Blair As educators we speak of the infant as entering the "society… |
Sequence 2society. "Rituals are considered to represent only a negative dead- weight from the past." Margaret Mead… |
Sequence 3conscious renewal of ritual and celebration as a family is a way to return to the sacred from the clam or of the world. We… |
Sequence 4the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 1THE MAINSTREAMING OF MONTESSORI IN AMERICA by David Kahn, Editor On April 17, 1989 Newsweek published a cover story entitled… |
Sequence 2curriculum spiral with a system of indirect preparation which is part of its philosophy of education. In the process of coming… |
Sequence 3implementation and teacher training approaches. Lastly, this Journal introduces still another problem of Montessori… |
Sequence 1Humanities HUMAMITIES AND THE ART OF INQUIRY by Edwin J. Delattre Dr. Delattre's incisive summary of the role of… |
Sequence 2we have discovered ourselves, over generations, to be. As Maria Montessori-and earlier, Aristotle-understood, the natu- ral… |
Sequence 3for human beings," "the studies that make people fully human," and so on. Beware of such… |
Sequence 4His work brings to life the idea of inquiry as dialogue-the shared and cooperative pursuit of truth among people of knowledge… |
Sequence 5What holds for listening and speaking holds, too, for reading and writ- ing. For those who have difficulty engaging in… |
Sequence 6students were taught confusions. At times, assignments were framed so that "culture" was a sort of umbrella… |
Sequence 7in the l:,ook changed. How did circumstances lead them to alter their beliefs, attitudes, or behavior? Lee wrote a paper… |
Sequence 8government should be constituted-as seriously as anyone I have read or met. His many volumes of correspondence are laced with… |
Sequence 9questions in the inquiry of political theory makes that inquiry durable and permanent. It is grist for the intelligence of all… |
Sequence 10Eugene "Bull" O'Connor, a notoriously brutish man and a segregation- ist to the core. When efforts to… |
Sequence 11fifteen years earlier, as King knew, when Henry David Thoreau was in jail for. refusing to pay a poll tax because he believed… |
Sequence 12violence. They understand nothing of the nature of dignity that is a rightful part of their heritage, and they live in a… |
Sequence 13Lupus is an exhausting disease, but Flannery O'Connor was none- theless to make herself into one of the great writers of… |
Sequence 14passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it." She was deceived by very little; she was… |
Sequence 15to bits in the depravity of urban streets. And if you help your students to practice the art of inquiry by hard, detailed… |
Sequence 1LEARNING BY CLASS DISCUSSION 1 by J ournet Kahn The following transcript of Dr. Kahn's presentation in Minneapolis… |
Sequence 2our way of life possible, and produce a citizenry capable of solving its problems in a way that maximizes human development… |
Sequence 3friendship that results from sharing a noble human good. From this social learning community (referred to by Robert M.… |
Sequence 4Once this essential connection (between definition and result) is estab- lished, we can view some prescriptive techniques that… |
Sequence 5The great works of the human mind in the western intellectual tradi- tion fulfill this requirement in a preeminent way. The… |
Sequence 6clarity, consistency and persuasion than from the leader who guides them authoritatively from above, even where that authority… |
Sequence 74-A,C,D. To facilitate as leader is not to make difficult subjects easy but to make it easier for participants to initially… |
Sequence 8Let me however choose just a few that I think you would agree would be helpful in any view of class discussion. They may apply… |
Sequence 9proposes. The continuous movement between one's own ideas and text is the normal "work flow" for the… |
Sequence 10Elements of the Definition of Class Discussion I. An interchange between students, not primarily between stu- dents and… |
Sequence 1Teaching, Learning, and Their Counterfeits (1976; 1987) by Mortimer Adler In "Teaching, Learning, and Their… |
Sequence 2learn is not enough; stimulation is not teaching. Since whatever can be learned by instruction must necessarily have been… |
Sequence 3transformed, and may even supply models to imitate, but without the intervention of the artist's slrill and causal… |
Sequence 4learning; nor can his superior skill in learning provide the learner with the help he needs in the process of discovery. The… |
Sequence 5Lecturing is that form of teaching which is analogous to the use of drugs and medication in the practice of medicine. No… |
Sequence 6hold, especially those acquired in the course of schooling? They have adopted them on the naked authority of teachers who… |
Sequence 7verbal; memory of mere opinions adopted on the naked authority assumed by indoctrinating teachers. The conception of the… |
Sequence 84. Most important of all, they should be so prepared for the profession of teaching that they understand their own primary… |
Sequence 1Montessori: The Humanities Connection Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal by David Kahn Montessori education may be a… |
Sequence 2There is a broad spectrum of interest in the six year old, and Mont- essori suggests accordingly that we must sow as many… |
Sequence 3Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is… |
Sequence 442 He existed, Taaroa was his name, In the immensity. There was no earth, there was no sky, There was no sea, there was no… |
Sequence 5What is powerful-the most powerful link in Montessori work-is the integration of science and myth-for here within the story of… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 7The sophists took the body of knowledge diffused thoughout the great mythologies and tried to classify it into areas of study… |
Sequence 8The generalist perspective has been cited by many a pedagogist and humanist. Werner Yaeger, in Paideia, describes the… |
Sequence 9MYTHOS LOGOS From Mythos to Logos - Comparison MONTESSORI PEDAGOGY ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE I SfORY OF LIFE ON EARTH l… |
Sequence 10not only connect with Montessori education-they may be indispensi- ble to the preservation and application of the Montessori… |
Sequence 11The humanities also deal with the interpersonal. The child learns to discuss, to interpret, to act out what he knows,… |
Sequence 12all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 13which integrates myth and science. The test of validity is the response of the child. How does the child make his own… |
Sequence 1Extending the Montessori Classroom Into the Library by Paul Clement Czaja When I reflect upon my growing years, I recall… |
Sequence 2families not enrolling their children in this otherwise Black/Hispanic neighborhood public school. The shift to Montessori… |
Sequence 3develop in their children a style of learning that is active and inter- grated, not passive and fragmented. Here at Mitchell… |
Sequence 4for them to notice that there need not be four walls around their learning environments. Likewise, the young learners of today… |
Sequence 1Research PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF A MONTESSORI SCHOOL IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR by Tim Duax Dr.… |
Sequence 2This assessment is based on data gathered from standardized achievement tests and on the opinions of traditional teachers… |
Sequence 3The current English, Math, Science and Social Studies teachers of these students were given surveys which contained twenty-… |
Sequence 4backgrounds and hold teaching licenses in Wisconsin. Table 2 reproduces the survey and shows the mean and standard deviation… |
Sequence 5Table 2. ••• SURVEY RESULTS OF 27 MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS ••• In relation to this child's!:r:rs, how would you estimate… |
Sequence 6Middle School Survey The theoretical midpoint on the response line for each survey item was 5.5. The mean for every survey… |
Sequence 7research, along with replications and variations of this ex-post-facto research are needed before reliability or causality can… |
Sequence 1A COMPARISON OF LOWER AND UPPER ELEMENTARY MONTESSORI STUDENTS WITH A PUBLIC SCHOOL SAMPLE By Christopher M. Glenn, Ph. D.… |
Sequence 2Method of Instrumentation The sample consisted of 96 Montessori students and 48 school stu- dents, their parents and teachers… |
Sequence 3Competency Measure (Persistency and Eagerness to Continue) slightly favored the comparison group. Further, there were no… |
Sequence 4these impulses. The student may react by "holding him/herself in" and being more guarded in his/her… |
Sequence 5strength were related to age but not to number of Montessori educa- tion years, while social and task competency were related… |
Sequence 6References Banta, T.J. Tests for the evaluation of early childhood education: The Cincinnati Autonomy Test Battery (CATB). In… |
Sequence 1Sciences EXPOSING THE ELEMENTARY CHILD TO THE WORLD OF CHEMISTRY by Rajendra K. Gupta Raj Gupt,a 's pioneering work… |
Sequence 2ACTIVITIES 1. Have children make some mixtures of two solids. a. sand and flour b. talcum powder and garden soil c. salt… |
Sequence 32. After the children are familiar with the above elements, present their symbols. "Chemists use a symbol consisting… |