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Month: November 2009

The Loss Of Apprenticeships Is A Tragedy By Max Kalehoff

November 24, 2009 Cristina Barvo

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117775&lfe=1 “Why? The decline of apprenticeships signals the erosion of an important form of knowledge transfer — both technical and…

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Quotes by Vernon Howard: Making choices and the power of bearing with uncertainty

Cristina Barvo

“You need only choose… then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it…

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Internal vs. External Motivations

Cristina Barvo

“There’s a common misconception that a person’s skill is their talent. Skills, however, are not talents. Talents, on the other…

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Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul.

November 21, 2009 Cristina Barvo

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. ~ Stuart Brown Stuart Brown (Author) It…

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Fear of the wolves in the Wilderness

November 20, 2009 Cristina Barvo

The Wilderness of Childhood “The traveler soon learns that the only way to come to know a city, to form…

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Natural & Logical Consequences

Cristina Barvo

Reward and punishment deny children the opportunity to make their own decisions and to be responsible for their own behavior.…

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The forces of Education by Rudolf Steiner

Cristina Barvo

“The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility. These are the three forces which are…

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KEY EMOTIONAL LIFE SKILLS

Cristina Barvo

This particular list I chose to include because it is written with regard to humans of all ages, not only…

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IMPORTANCE OF PLAY & HUMAN EVOLUTION

Cristina Barvo

A new theory about early human adaptation suggests that our ancestors capitalized on their capacities for play to enable the…

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Early Literacy Teaching Strategies

Cristina Barvo

Rich Teacher Talk -conversations a must, and should be incorporated into a variety of settings (one on one, small and…

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