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Article
The Fertile Field of Imagination
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 18, no. 2
Date: 1993
Pages: 27-41
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Abstract/Notes: Defines imagination in Montessori terms, describes the power and centrality of imagination to emotional and intellectual life, and makes a carefully supported case for imagination as the foundation of the entire Montessori elementary experience and, perhaps, even for adult life as well. (HTH)
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
Montessori’s View of Imagination and Creativity
Publication: AMI Journal (2013-), vol. 2014-2015
Date: 2014/2015
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Abstract/Notes: Clara Tornar introduces the key writings of Maria Montessori, citing the famous line, ‘human consciousness comes into the world as a flaming ball of imagination’. She defines what Montessori meant by this term: distinguishing imagination from fantasy, which does not attach to any reality, while emphasizing that reality is essential to the grounding of imagination.
Language: English
ISSN: 2215-1249, 2772-7319
Article
Education in Relation to the Imagination of the Little Child
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 20, no. 3
Date: 1995
Pages: 42-49
Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Imagination in children, Maria Montessori - Speeches, addresses, etc., Maria Montessori - Writings, Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: This reprint of a 1915 conference paper discusses the significance of religion and truth in the context of the mental powers of children, focusing on the unique role of imagination in the psychology of young children. Stresses the importance of developing sound imagination built on the real and concrete models of young children's environment. (MDM)
Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734
Article
The Right Use of Imagination, Chapter II from To Educate the Human Potential
Publication: AMI Journal (2013-), vol. 2014-2015
Date: 2014/2015
Maria Montessori - Writings, ⛔ No DOI found
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Abstract/Notes: In Montessori’s book To Educate the Human Potential, imagination provides the underpinnings of Montessori cosmic education—a metaphysical, moral, and philosophic view of existence and the human ability to mobilize destiny for the well-being of the universe, humankind, and the self: ‘Everything invented by man, physical or mental, is the fruit of someone’s imagination.’ This article is the definitive framer of the role of imagination for the six-year-old.
Language: English
ISSN: 2215-1249, 2772-7319
Book Section
The Right Use of Imagination
Book Title: To Educate the Human Potential
Pages: 6-9
Curriculum, Elementary education, Imagination, imagination, cosmic, memory, planes, rote-learning
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2007
ISBN: 978-90-79506-23-1
Series: The Montessori Series , 6
Article
Playing with Meaning: Humour, Language Development and Imagination
Publication: AMI Journal (2013-), vol. 2014-2015
Date: 2014/2015
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Abstract/Notes: Carla Foster shows how the imagination facilitates evolutionary humour, which enriches language, and how linguistic humour introduces cognitive fluency—another characteristic of imagination, referring to the movement of the mind in all directions through space and time.
Language: English
ISSN: 2215-1249, 2772-7319
Book Section
The Universe Presented to the Child's Imagination
Book Title: To Educate the Human Potential
Pages: 17-20
Curriculum, Elementary education, Imagination, imagination, cosmic, memory, planes, rote-learning
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Language: English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, 2007
ISBN: 978-90-79506-23-1
Series: The Montessori Series , 6
Article
Education in Relation to the Imagination of the Little Child
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, vol. 29, no. 3
Date: Nov 1916
Pages: 84-86
Imagination, Maria Montessori - Writings, ⛔ No DOI found
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Language: English
Article
Fantasy and Imagination
Publication: NAMTA Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 3
Date: Spring 1977
Pages: 19-24
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Abstract/Notes: In an effor to clarify the fairy tale debate, Ms. Salzman pursues the distinction between fansy and imagination utilizing the classical Montessori position derived from upublished lectured delivered by Dr. Montessori in London.
Language: English
Article
Cultivating Community/Cultivating Imagination
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 25, no. 4
Date: 2001
Pages: 16–23
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Language: English