Bergamo`s year of advanced Montessori courses

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A NAMTA
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Bergamo’s
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27-29 April, 2011
Bergamo, Italy
A NAMTA Conference Celebrating Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year
of Advanced Montessori Courses
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Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year of
Advanced Montessori Courses
Embracing the past,
enriching the present,
envisioning the future...
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding on
that certification from the secondary school to the university, but of individuals passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own
activity, through their own effort of will, which constitutes the inner evolution of the individual.
—Maria Montessori
Registration deadline is April 14, 2011
The Montessori Lineage from
Cosmic Education to Erdkinder
The Montessori Lineage from
Cosmic Education to Erdkinder
Wednesday, 27 April, 2011
5:00–7:00 p.m. • Welcome registration and informal reception
Bergamo Centre
Thursday, 28 April, 2011
9:00–9:45 a.m.
Bergamo: The Montessori Lineage from the
Advanced Montessori Method to Cosmic
Education to Erdkinder
Baiba Krumins Grazzini
Fifty years ago and more, Camillo Grazzini
and Eleonora Honegger began collaborating
with Mario Montessori in the process that
had already led from the Advanced Montessori Method of the early 20th
century to the Cosmic Education approach of later years. Later still, the
same pioneering spirit led to Bergamo’s involvement with the Erdkinder
project in America.
10:00–10:45 a.m.
Adolescence as a Second Birth
Raniero Regni
“Within the secret adolescent self, there hides the intimate vocation of
the human being.” The adolescent needs to give birth to him/herself, to
educate him/herself through work. The secret of adolescence holds one
of the greatest challenges to contemporary education.
10:45–11:15 a.m. • Coffee Break
April 27-29, 2011
A NAMTA Conference Celebrating Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year
of Advanced Montessori Courses
11:15 a.m.–Noon
Practical Life at San Lorenzo: Implications for Erdkinder
Paola Trabalzini
Professor Trabalzini provides historical documentation, in photographic
and written form, about the self-care and practical life activities first experienced by the San Lorenzo children in 1907, activities which find their
parallel in the kind of real-life practical work performed by adolescents in
a farm context.
Noon–1:30 p.m. • Luncheon
1:30–2:15 p.m.
Montessori Math: Precision Linked with
Vision (from Childhood to Adolescence),
A Tribute to Camillo Grazzini
John McNamara
One of the outstanding Montessori teachers for math, technology, and science in
the United States at both the elementary
and adolescent levels, John McNamara
traces his clarity of Montessori vision
back to the structure and precision of the
Montessori philosophy, materials, and
methodology he learned in Bergamo.
2:30–3:15 p.m.
Bergamo and the Renewal of the Montessori Adolescent Land Experiment
David Kahn
Bergamo was the guiding force for the revival of the Erdkinder as the
Montessori “experiment for the experiment”, as derived from Montessori
texts and brought into realization through Mr Kahn’s 32-year relationship
with Camillo Grazzini.
3:15–3:45 p.m. • Coffee break
Registration deadline is April 14, 2011
The Montessori Lineage from
Cosmic Education to Erdkinder
3:45–4:30 p.m.
A Swedish Farm School:
Lessons in Independence
Jenny Höglund
Jenny Höglund describes optimal independence as practiced at her school from the
elementary years, during which students really commit to daily-life activities and maintenance of a school (as well as the usual academic pursuits), to the “Erdkinder-inspired”
adolescent farm community, for which the
students prepared their own housing facilities, including painting, renovation, and planning their spaces and activities.
Friday, 29 April, 2011
9:00–9:45 a.m.
The Adolescent on the Farm: What They Showed Us
Laurie Ewert-Krocker
Now in her 12th year of working strictly from the framework of Montessori’s educational syllabus for the young adolescent (ages 12 to 15),
Laurie Ewert-Krocker presents a portrayal of implementing Montessori
theory into practice. Her sustained work with the farm model centers on
the psychological characteristics of the adolescent as universal and the
farm as the optimal prepared environment for the Montessori “school of
experience in the elements of social life”.
10:00–10:45 a.m.
The Montessori High School in America
Michael Waski
Recently trained in Bergamo, Mr Waski shares how Montessori has
informed his 10 years of high school teaching experience, with a special
focus on mathematics from the perspective of a psychodiscipline.
10:45–11:15 a.m. • Coffee break
April 27-29, 2011
A NAMTA Conference Celebrating Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year
of Advanced Montessori Courses
11:15 a.m.–Noon
The Montessori College Oost: Architectural Designs for a Montessori
Secondary School in The Netherlands
Herman Hertzberger
Distinguished Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger, himself a former
Montessori pupil, articulates his adventure in space in designing the
first building in Europe planned and built as a Montessori secondary
school, the Montessori College Oost. This junior-senior high school
in Amsterdam serves 1600 pupils between 12 and 18 years. Its internal layout is modeled on a small “town” consisting of flights of stairs,
ramps, “streets”, and squares”. Hertzberger has also designed a number
of exemplary Montessori elementary schools in the Netherlands.
Noon–2:00 p.m. • Bergamo’s Birthday Luncheon with Tributes
2:15–3:00 p.m.
The Association Montessori Internationale:
Completing the Planes of Education—The Global Challenge
Lynne Lawrence
As a result of her world travels, Lynne Lawrence is able to view the big
picture about the role of the developmental continuum in different cultures, emphasizing the universal application of Montessori principles in
the context of international growth.
3:15–4:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Baiba Krumins Grazzini, Jenny Höglund, David Kahn
The Lineage
Mario Montessori
Camillo Grazzini
Baiba Krumins Grazzini
Registration deadline is April 14, 2011
The
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Cosmic Education to Erdkinder
Baiba Krumins Grazzini is Director of Training in Bergamo, Italy, at the ‘International Centre for Montessori Studies’ Foundation (Fondazione ‘Centro
Internazionale Studi Montessoriani’). She has been involved with Bergamo’s
AMI elementary training course since 1975; became an AMI elementary
trainer in 1986; and joined Camillo Grazzini as Director of Training in 1992.
Baiba Krumins Grazzini holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in
economics from the University of London (London School of Economics and
Political Science) as well as the AMI 3-6 Diploma (London) and the AMI 6-12
Diploma (Bergamo). As the late Camillo Grazzini’s closest collaborator, Baiba
Krumins Grazzini co-researched, and sometimes co-authored, papers and
projects with respect to many aspects of Montessori elementary work; she
has continued to publish in her own name. She has been a member of the
AMI Scientific Pedagogy Group since 2004.
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Laurie Ewert-Krocker is head teacher at the Hershey Montessori School
Adolescent Community (Huntsburg, OH). She holds AMI Diplomas at both
the Primary and Elementary levels, a BA in English from John Carroll University (OH), and an MA in English from the University of Washington. Ms.
Ewert-Krocker was the founding head teacher of the Hershey farm program
and is a longtime faculty member of NAMTA’s Montessori Orientation to
Adolescent Studies.
Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect, completed his studies at the Technical University of Delft in 1958, where he was a professor from 1970 to 1999.
Mr Hertzberger can be considered, along with Aldo van Eyck, as the influence
behind the Dutch structuralist movement of the 1960s. He believes that the
architect’s role is not to provide a complete solution but to provide a spatial
framework to be eventually filled in by the users. Mr Hertzberger has been
a guest teacher at universities/architectural institutes in Argentina, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, South
Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
He is also an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects.
Jenny Höglund is an Auxiliary Trainer in the AMI Training of Trainers Programme at the Elementary level. She earned her AMI Elementary Diploma at
the Ohio Montessori Training Institute and her AMI Primary Diploma at the
Washington (DC) Montessori Institute. She served at the Bergamo centre
from 2004 to 2006 as part of her training of trainers course. Since 2006 she
has been a lecturer for the Bergamo centre. She has worked with Montessori adolescents in Sweden from ages 12 to 15. She intends to specialize
in adolescent teacher preparation as she prepares to be a fully vested AMI
Elementary Trainer.
April 27-29, 2011
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School Adolescent Community in Huntsburg, Ohio, an internationally acclaimed
Montessori model for adolescent education. He now serves as founding director
of Montessori High School at University Circle (Cleveland, OH). Mr Kahn holds a BA
in fine arts and classics from the University of Notre Dame (IN) as well as the AMI
Montessori Elementary Diploma from Bergamo.
Lynne Lawrence, Executive Director of the Association Montessori Internationale,
has also served as AMI Primary (3-6) Director of Training at the Maria Montessori
Institute (London, England, formerly Maria Montessori Training Organisation)
since 1989. Since 1978, she has worked on Help the Children projects in Kenya
and Tanzania. She holds a BA in humanities and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce, which was founded in 1754 to “remove barriers to social progress”. She is author of Montessori Read and Write: A Parent’s
Guide to Literacy for Children (1998).
John McNamara is head of school and founding director of the middle school at Ruffing Montessori School West (Rocky River, OH). He received his BA from the University
of Windsor, Ontario, his master’s in educational administration from the University of
Toronto, Ontario, and the AMI Elementary Diploma from Bergamo.
Raniero Regni graduated in philosophy from the University of Perugia and
earned his doctorate in pedagogical research at the University of Roma Tre. He
was a teacher of history and philosophy at a secondary school (lyceum) and is
at present an associate professor of social pedagogy and adult education in the
faculty of educational sciences of Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta (LUMSA)
in Rome. He also serves as a referee for the graduate course in educational and
formative sciences of LUMSA in Gubbio. He has lectured at the University of
Bilbao, the University of Stockholm, the University of Paris, and the University
of Ramòn Llull of Barcelona (Fundaciò Pere Tarres).
Paola Trabalzini is a professor of the history of education in the education and
training sciences degree course at Rome’s ‘La Sapienza’ University. She also
lectures on the history of education for the teacher training courses of the Opera
Nazionale Montessori (ONM, Rome). She is a member of the ONM’s Montessori
Higher Institute for Research and Training, for which she supervised the critical
edition of Il Metodo della Pedagogia scientifica [The Montessori Method]. She
writes for Italian and international educational magazines. In 2005, she published
the book Maria Montessori da Il Metodo a La scoperta del bambino [Maria Montessori from ‘The Montessori Method’ to ‘The Discovery of the Child’].
Michael Waski is a math teacher at Montessori High School at University
Circle in Cleveland, OH. He holds the AMI Montessori Elementary Diploma
from the Bergamo centre. He completed NAMTA’s Orientation to Adolescent
Studies in 2005. Registration deadline is April 14, 2011
The Montessori Lineage from
Cosmic Education to Erdkinder
Lodging
Single and double rooms
are available at Seminario
Vescovile Giovanni XXIII,
Via Arena, 11, Bergamo.
Plan to arrive Wednesday
afternoon, 27 April and
to depart Saturday, 30 April
before 10 a.m.
Single room:
$95 USD each night
Double room:
$125 USD each night
Please select room choice and dates on the
registration form on the following page.
Recommended transportation from
Malpensa Airport to Bergamo:
Take the airport shuttle bus to Milano Centrale
train station and then the train directly to
Bergamo Centrale station.
More information is available at the
following websites:
http://www.malpensashuttle.it
Transportation
Shuttle Bus: http://www.malpensashuttle.it/index.html
Train: http://www.trenitalia.com/
Transportation from Città Bassa to Città Alta Seminary:
Take the 1A bus from Porta Nuova to Città Alta and get off at the last stop.
April 27-29, 2011
A NAMTA Conference Celebrating Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year
of Advanced Montessori Courses
Registration
Register by April 14 for early registration rates!
Tuition: Tuition fees include Thursday and Friday luncheons.
AMI or NAMTA member tuition fee: ❑ $300 USD (❑ $315 USD after April 14)
Non-member tuition fee: ❑ $360 USD ( ❑ $375 USD after April 14)
Lodging: Double or Single Room at Seminario Vescovile Giovanni XXIII
Lodging fees include breakfast each day
Double room (two single beds): ❑ $250 (2 nights, 27-28 April)
❑ $125 (1 night, 27 April)
❑ $375 (3 nights, 27-28-29 April)
Single room (one bed): ❑ $95 (1 night, 27 April)
❑ $190 (2 nights, 27-28 April)
❑ $285 (3 nights, 27-28-29 April)
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