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Thomas Berry
Thomas Berry, a faculty member emeritus at Fordham
University, Bronx, NY, spoke at "The Epic of Evolution," a
conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and supported by NAMTA, November, 1997.
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Louise Chawla
Louise Chawla is a Professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado. She completed her preschool (3-6) and elementary (6-12) Montessori training through the St. Nicholas Training Centre (London, England) and taught at the Walden School, a Montessori school in suburban Philadelphia. From there, her interest in children’s informal learning in their communities led her to a master’s in education and child development from Bryn Mawr College, followed by a doctorate in environmental psychology from the City University of New York. She has written widely on children and nature, children in cities, and the development of environmental activism, and some of her work has appeared in The NAMTA Journal.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is C.S.
and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology at The Peter F. Drucker
Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont,
CA. He is director of the Quality of Life Research Center, and has
served on the U.S. Child Labor Advisory Committee, the Center for
Giftedness at the U.S. Department of Education, the Board of Advisors
for Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Advisory Board for the J.P.
Getty Museum. Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the author of fourteen
books including Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (excerpted
in The NAMTA Journal, Winter, 1997), and Finding Flow, published
in 1997. He has collaborated most recently on a book titled Good
Work, When Excellence and Ethics Meet. He has appeared at numerous
NAMTA conferences and plans a joint project with NAMTA on the study
of normalization. Several of his articles have appeared in The
NAMTA Journal.
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Lise Eliot
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Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
has been featured at two NAMTA conferences (in 1996 and 1998) and
in an issue of The
NAMTA Journal.
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Jane M. Healy
Dr. Healy, an expert in child brain development,
has appeared at numerous NAMTA conferences. Several of her articles
have appeared in The
NAMTA Journal.
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Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn, a teacher-turned-lecturer on discipline
and classroom management, has spoken at numerous NAMTA conferences. He has also had an article
published in The
NAMTA Journal.
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Richard Louv
Richard Louv is a futurist and journalist focused
on family, nature, and community. He is a columnist for The
San Diego Union-Tribune and has written for The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and other newspapers
and magazines. He spoke
at the NAMTA conference Science, History, and the Arts Through
Nature's Keyhole, Atlanta, GA, January, 2006.
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Robin C. Moore
Robin Moore is professor of landscape architecture,
College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
and an expert
in the design of play, learning, and educational environments. He spoke
at the NAMTA conference Science, History, and the Arts Through
Nature's Keyhole, Atlanta, GA, January, 2006.
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Brian Swimme
Brian Swimme teaches cosmology at the California
Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He spoke at "The
Epic of Evolution," a conference sponsored by the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and supported by NAMTA, November,
1997.
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Frank Wilson
Frank Wilson, associate clinical professor of neurology
and medical director of the Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing
Artists at the University of California School of Medicine in San
Francisco, spoke at Montessori and the Information Age, Seattle,
WA, March, 2000.
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