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December 14, 2007

PROSPECT REVIEW

PROSPECT REVIEW #29 (e) - December 2007

The current issue of The Prospect Review (#29) is now posted under Prospect Review (link is on left hand menu). The following are Editors' Notes by Betsy Wice and Cecilia Espinosa. We again thank both the writers and our wonderful editors. Warmly, Lynne Strieb

Editors’ Note:

"And here we are, twenty or thirty years later, coming to this work. The
school is closed. The child is grown up. Whether we are seeing it for the first
time, or the fourth or twentieth time, we come to it fresh with a new group.
There is always more to see and know and question. There is a relationship to
create, with the work, with the child, with one another. There is, in this
collaborative looking and describing, new knowledge created and new work, as
fresh and powerful as the child's work. This is always true, but takes on added
importance in these times."

With these words, Joan Bradbury speaks of the immediate relevance of the
Prospect Archives of Children's Work.

This issue of The Prospect Review lets us in on the thoughts of a special
education teacher in New York City (Lariza Martell), a third-grade teacher in
Illinois (Eve Richards), and a middle-school teacher in Vermont (Nancy
Mildrum). Each of them tells how the Prospect Archives have enriched her
classroom life.

How did the Prospect Archives come to be? Pat Carini tells some of the history
in her essay "Made by Hand," where she also explains the descriptive process
for studying a child's work. How can we get access to the works in the Prospect
Archives? The FAQ fact sheet below answers this and other practical questions.
We hope this issue of The Prospect Review will inform current teaching and
connect more of us with this rich resource.

Sincerely,
Cecilia Espinosa and Betsy Wice, co-editors

Posted by lstrieb at December 14, 2007 10:18 AM