Montessori Minute: Recent Episodes

Melissa McElhill

Here’s a podcast for all students of Montessori who want a better understanding of Maria Montessori’s books. I’m breaking down one chapter at a time into short bite-sized audible chunks.

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A quick summary of the last chapter in The Absorbent Mind, and a chat about the book overall.

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A quick summary of Chapter 27, The Teacher’s Preparation, from The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

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A quick summary of Chapter 26, Discipline and the Teacher, in The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

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A quick summary of Chapter 25, The Three Levels of Obedience

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A quick summary of Chapter 24, Mistakes and their Correction

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A quick summary of Chapter 23, Cohesion in the Social Unit

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A brief summary of Chapter 22, Social Development

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A quick summary of Chapter 21, Children’s Possessiveness and its Transformation

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A quick summary of Chapter 20, Character Building is the Child’s Own Achievement

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A quick summary of Chapter 19, The Child’s Contribution to Society - Normalization

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A quick summary of Chapter 18, Character and its Defects in Childhood

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A quick summary of the groundbreaking work by Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 17, Further Elaboration Through Culture and Imagination

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A quick summary of Chapter 16, From Unconscious Creator to Conscious Worker, from Maria Montessori’s book, The Absorbent Mind.

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A quick summary of Chapter 15, Development and Imitation, from Maria Montessori’s book, The Absorbent Mind.

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A brief summary of Chapter 14, Intelligence and the Hand

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A quick summary of Chapter 13, The Importance of Movement in General Development

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A quick summary of Chapter 13, The Effects of Obstacles on Development

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A quick summary of Chapter 11, How Language Calls to the Child

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A summary of Chapter 10, Some Thoughts on Language

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A quick summary of The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 9, The First Days of Life

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A short summary of Chapter 8 of The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

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A quick summary of Chapter 7 from The Absorbent Mind

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A summary of Chapter 6 from The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

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A summary of Chapter 5 from The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

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A summary of Chapter 4 from The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori

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A summary of The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 3, by Maria Montessori

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If you’re reading The Absorbent Mind, join me as I run through the key points of Chapter 2

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If you’re reading The Absorbent Mind, join me as I run through the key points of Chapter 1

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A one-minute summary of Chapter 8, The Child’s Conquest of Independence

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A one-minute summary of Chapter 7, The Spiritual Embryo

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A one-minute summary of Chapter 6, Embryology and Behaviour

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A quick summary of Chapter 5, The Miracle of Creation

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A one-minute summary of Chapter 4, The New Path

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A one-minute summary of Chapter 3, Periods if Growth

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This week’s Montessori Minute covers the second chapter, “Education for Life”

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A minute on Chapter 1 of Maria Montessori’s earth-shattering book, The Absorbent Mind