Word: montessori
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step techniques, makes for a comprehensive and instructive study, particularly for those interested in language development and behavioral psychology. The Wild Boy of Aveyron ends, however, with a lengthy digression on the inspiration Itard's work provided for later educators--from the originators of sign language to Maria Montessori. Largely a name-and date-filled chronology of educational history, this last section detracts from both the narrative and pedagogical impact of the Wild Boy's story...
...personal life. His father died during Peter's first year at Antioch, and Irons ended up the only one of the seven children to get a college degree. His four brothers are house carpenters, one sister is married to a house carpenter, and the last sister teaches in a Montessori school in Cambridge...
...Dutch throne; and Jorge Guillermo, 28, a Cuban refugee and a teacher of preschool youngsters in Harlem. Classical music buffs who met in 1973, the couple, after a June wedding in The Netherlands, will live in New York City, where Christina teaches French and music at a Montessori school...
...WENT OVER to my other sister's house in Oakland the next day. I really wanted to just disappear, but decided I'd give the so-called sane world one more chance. Sharon was studying Montessori and her husband, Paul, was a social worker in the Oakland Welfare Department. They were a lot more down-to-earth than Barb and Ray--they showed their ideals through actions rather than words. I almost could have stayed there...
...father William, a partner in a marketing services company, once designed theater sets. His mother Sonja is a former film and TV actress. So far, Mason has made ten commercials, causing little interruption of his normal round of activities at home and his classes at St. Michael's Montessori School, where he is about to enter third grade...