The Absorbent MindLulu.com, 07/10/2011 - 442 páginas In response to the crisis in American education, more than five thousand public and private schools across the nation have adopted the timeless Montessori Method of teaching, of which this book is the cornerstone. Written by the women whose name is synonymous worldwide with child development theory, The Absorbent Mind takes its title from the phrase that the inspired Italian doctor coined to characterize the child's most crucial developmental stage: the first six years. |
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The Child and World Reconstruction | 1 |
Education for Life | 10 |
The Periods of Growth | 24 |
A New Orientation | 41 |
The Miracle of Creation | 57 |
One Plan One Method | 74 |
Mans Universality | 91 |
The Psychoembryonic Life | 107 |
Development and Imitation | 224 |
From Unconscious Creator to Conscious Worker | 235 |
The New Teacher | 247 |
Further Elaboration through Culture and Imagi nation | 261 |
Character and its Defects in Young Children | 276 |
Normal ization | 288 |
Characterbuilding a Conquest not a Defence | 302 |
The Sublimation of Possessiveness | 315 |
The Conquest of Independence | 122 |
Care to be taken at Lifes Beginning | 138 |
On Language | 157 |
The Call of Language | 169 |
Obstacles and their Consequences | 184 |
Movement and Total Development | 198 |
Intelligence and the Hand | 212 |
CHAPTER PAGE XXIII Social Development | 325 |
Society by Cohesion | 342 |
Error and its Control | 363 |
The Three Degrees of Obedience | 375 |
The Montessori Teacher | 393 |
the Child | 409 |
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