March 31, 2012
SUMMER INSTITUTES 2012
SUMMER INSTITUTE ON DESCRIPTIVE PROCESS* Bennington College, Vermont Sunday, July 29 to Friday, August 3, 2012 SUMMER INSTITUTE ON DESCRIPTIVE INQUIRY* to Resist and Re-Imagine Our Educational Terraine
Bennington College, Vermont
July 29 to August 11, 2012
*With the closing of the Prospect Archive and Center for Education and Research, the
institutes formerly known as the Prospect Summer Institutes will be carried forward by a
new organization, The Institute on Descriptive Inquiry Inc. There will continue to be two
institutes, the Institute on Descriptive Process and the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry, and,
as in the recent past, they will be collaboratively planned and facilitated by participants of
the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry.
Posted by lstrieb at 11:07 PM
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With the closing of the Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research in 2011, a new organization, the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry, Inc. will continue the summer institutes formerly sponsored by Prospect. For several years the summer institutes managed the content and process portions of their work independently. Now, that work will go on under this new incorporation. As in the past, during the summer of 2012, the Institute on Descriptive Process will take place for one week and the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry for two weeks in Vermont on the campus of Bennington College. This year the Institute on Descriptive Process runs from July 29 to August 3 and the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry from July 29 to August 11. Typically, people who have good familiarity with descriptive processes and the work of descriptive inquiry attend the two-week seminar. People relatively new to or particularly interested in focused practice of a range of descriptive processes attend the one-week seminar. This summer’s gathering will be an important moment for the Institute with a celebration planned on the mid-Institute weekend (August 4th and 5th) to commemorate the history and good work of the Summer Institutes, and to mark the transition to the new organization. Consider reserving those dates and joining in the celebration if you have any history with the Summer Institutes. Expect information about this special celebration later in the spring. In August of 2011, the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry held its Structural Planning Meeting. At that meeting, participants adopted by-laws for the corporation. Members present will serve as the first Directors of the corporation. They chose the following officers: Bruce Turnquist, president; Joan Bradbury and Regina Ritscher, vice-presidents; Ellen Schwartz, secretary; Andy Doan, assistant secretary; Neal Wrightson, treasurer. Cecelia Traugh and Bruce Turnquist will co-direct Summer Institutes 2012. The Board of the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry looks forward to continuing this valued work. As in the past, information will be posted in the spring about registering for the Summer Institutes. Posted by lstrieb at 9:06 PM
PROSPECT PRACTITIONER AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS/UVM
ANNOUNCING APPLICATIONS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT-PROSPECT PRACTITIONER AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS FOR SUMMER 2012
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 15, 2012 for summer 2012 Posted by lstrieb at 12:10 PM
The Finding Aid for the Prospect Archives at UVM is now available. When you have time, you might want to take a look at this document. It shows researchers where to find items when working with the actual physical Archives at UVM. For example, in the Contents, you can open the topics under Container List and see the long, detailed list of documents and the container where each document can be found at Special Collections. Look for the Finding Aid at http://cdi.uvm.edu/findingaids/collection/prospect.ead.xml. Posted by lstrieb at 10:27 AM
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February 8, 2012
Announcing the Institute on Descriptive Inquiry
October 9, 2011
The Prospect Center closed as a non-profit corporation in December 2010 and gave a gift to the University of Vermont to fund Practitioner and Research Fellowships. The purpose of the fellowships is to encourage educators and researchers to use the Prospect Archives on the site of the University of Vermont.
To learn more about these Fellowships, and to download the application you can go to the following link, or to the Prospect Archive of Children's Work home page side menu, where you can double click on "Research and Practitioner Fellowships."
Research and Practitioner Fellowships Link: http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=prospect&title=Prospect%20Archive%20of%20Children%27s%20Work&view=prospectFellowship#a
July 1, 2011
FINDING AID FOR PROSPECT ARCHIVES AT UVM
