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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Origin and Theory of Montessori Education | |
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| Goal of Montessori Education | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| Planes of Development | |
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| Human Tendencies of Behavior | |
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| Activity Based on Interest | |
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| A Plan of Education | |
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| Overview of the Primary Years | |
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| Goal of the Primary Years | |
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| Sensitive Periods | |
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| Absorbent Mind | |
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| Hand and Brain | |
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| Education Begins at Birth | |
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| Infant Classes | |
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| Young Children's Community | |
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| Parent Education | |
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| Children's House | |
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| Sensorial Materials | |
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| Language and Mathematics Material | |
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| Social Development | |
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| Normalization | |
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| The Child's Work | |
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| Changes at the Second Plane | |
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| Physical Changes | |
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| Intellectual Curiosity | |
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| Independence from Family | |
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| Social Exploration | |
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| A Reasoning Mind | |
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| Moral Development | |
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| Powers of Imagination | |
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| A New Plan | |
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| The Great Lessons and Key Lessons | |
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| A Plan for the Imagination and Reason | |
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| Keys to the Universe | |
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| The Five Major Stories | |
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| The First Great Lesson | |
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| The Remaining Great Lessons | |
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| A Sample Great Lesson | |
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| Team Effort and Discovery | |
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| The Key Lessons | |
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| A Sample Key Lesson | |
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| The Results of Cosmic Education | |
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| The Classroom Environment | |
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| The Prepared Environment | |
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| The Classroom as Workshop | |
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| The Montessori Materials | |
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| A Sample Presentation | |
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| Prepared Children | |
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| The Elementary Teacher | |
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| The Prepared Adult | |
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| Moral Development | |
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| The Teacher as Link | |
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| Social Grouping | |
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| Non-Interruption | |
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| Teacher Qualifications and Training | |
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| Freedom and Responsibility | |
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| A Classroom "Bill of Rights" | |
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| Journal Keeping | |
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| Individual Meetings | |
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| Care of the Environment | |
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| An Expanded Environment | |
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| Community Service Program | |
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| Why Montessori in the Elementary Years | |
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| Scenes from an Elementary Classroom | |
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| A Morning Visit | |
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| A Meeting with the Elementary Teacher | |
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| The Beginning of a Classroom Day | |
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| The End of the Classroom Day | |
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| The Planes of Adulthood | |
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| History of the Adolescent Program | |
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| Psychological Characteristics at the Third Plane | |
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| Activity Based an Interest | |
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| The Prepared Environment | |
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| Academic Program | |
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| Flexibility of Schedule | |
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| Human Social Organization | |
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| The Value of Work | |
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| Advantages of a Residential Setting | |
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| The Prepared Adult | |
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| Freedom with Responsibility | |
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| Montessori Secondary Schools Today | |
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| Results of Montessori Middle Schools | |
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| The Fourth Plane: The Years from Eighteen to Twenty-Four | |
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| Montessori: Present and Future | |
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| Appendix: A Student's Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |