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Dublin, Amsterdam, and Marseille – Spring 2017

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Speaking in Ireland, attending the Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam, sharing the Value of Concentration, and then Montessori in France

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Arriving in Dublin I was taken immediately to the tower, now the James Joyce Museum, where the beginning of the book “Ulysses” takes place. That experience has inspired me to give the book just one more chance and I am now on page 20 and enjoying it. Also in Dublin I saw the Book of Kells which has been on my “to do” list for many years, the National Museum, the Chester Beatty Library Collection, and had two shows of my own art. Continue reading →

Fischer and Matteo, Musical Montessori Babies

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Fischer and Matteo, Musical Babies

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Children from Birth to Three have an “absorbent mind”. They take in everything that is going on around them.

A child in his earliest years is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile.
— The Discovery of the Child, Maria Montessori

The role of the AMI Montessori Assistant to Infancy, guide or teacher for children from birth to three years, has always been first and foremost to support the parents, the child’s first teacher, at home. Much of this blog post is about that, using music as an example. Continue reading →

The Music Environment, from The AMI Journal

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The Music Environment from the Beginning to the End

This book was published in  AMI Journal 2014-2015 Theme Issue: The Montessori Foundations for the Creative Personality. This 237-page publication deals with the imagination, self-expression, language, music, the Montessori creative view of  childhood, art, and contemporary Montessori research and creativity.

This article is now published as a small book and is used in Montessori teacher training courses. For information CLICK: Music

THE RED COROLLA, MONTESSORI COSMIC EDUCATION (for age 3-6)
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Cosmic Education is a view of how everything is connected. This article has been reprinted in its entirety in this book because it gives an example, through music, of how all of the elements of cosmic education physics, biology, history, geography, the arts—serve the human from birth through old age. CLICK: The Red Corolla

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