From Alpha to Omega

Autor/in	Czaja, Paul Clement
Titel	From Alpha to Omega
Quelle	In: Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 18 (2006) 3, S.18-20 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1054-0040
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Montessori Method; Foreign Countries; Poverty; Developing Nations; School Construction; Child Welfare; Montessori Schools; Belize + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Montessori pedagogics; Montessori-Pädagogik; Ausland; Armut; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Schulbau; Kindeswohl; Montessori-Schule
Abstract	The Alpha point of the authors' life as a Montessori educator began in 1959, when he was a graduate student studying philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. While studying the works of the great American philosopher William James, the author came across the writings of Maria Montessori and immediately became captivated by her insights concerning the development of the virtuous child through personal experiential learning. He wrote a paper comparing her observations with those of John Dewey and afterward set out to find an opportunity to place himself in some elementary school so he might observe and encourage this philosophical development of children. His teaching career began teaching Philosophy and Latin in a school in Greenwich, Connecticut to children from very privileged families. He then describes the omega point of his career as having been called to serve the very poorest of children housed in an orphanage in Ladyville, a small village in Belize, in Central America. As a veteran Montessorian, he had been asked to help the Liberty Children's Home in Ladyville build and equip a world-class Montessori school. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10