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Order Montessori Books from Amazon.com NAMTA does not carry the following editions, but they are available through these special links to Amazon.com. Click on a book title to get more information, including price, shipping, etc. Then order from Amazon.com using your credit card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Healy, an expert in child brain development, has appeared at numerous NAMTA conferences. Several of her articles have appeared in The NAMTA Journal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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