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February 1, 2011
REVISED EDITION OF PROSPECT'S DESCRIPTIVE PROCESSES IS ONLINE
We’re pleased to announce that the revised edition of Prospect's Descriptive Processes is now online in pdf for download at the following url:
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=prospect&title=Prospect
If you use this url, click on Prospect’s Methodology in the menu to the left.
To go directly to the book, click on:
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=prospect&title=Prospect Archive of Children's Work&view=prospectMethod#a
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION of Prospect’s Descriptive Processes
Prospect’s Descriptive Processes has been consistently in demand since the book first became available in 2002. For this reason, it seemed imperative to continue to make it widely available even though the Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research has closed, and the Prospect Archives have been moved to Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections at the University of Vermont. We are, therefore, delighted to bring you this revised edition now available online for download at no cost. It is important for readers to know this edition includes new content as well as changes designed to provide consistency across processes.
Please be sure to follow Fair Use copyright practices. It is important to give complete credit whenever you use these processes.
We strongly recommend that if you are new to Prospect's disciplined Descriptive Processes, and to the phenomenological premises from which they emerged, that you read From Another Angle: Children’s Strengths and School Standards, edited by Margaret Himley with Patricia F. Carini (Teachers College Press, 2000) and Jenny's Story: Taking the Long View of the Child , Carini P.F., Himley, M., Christine, C., Espinosa, C., and Fournier, J. (Teachers College Press, 2010) before using the processes outlined below. We also highly recommend Starting Strong: A Different Look at Children, Schools, and Standards by Patricia F. Carini (Teachers College Press, 2001). This collection of talks provides the wider context of ideas and values foundational to the processes and relates both to current educational, social, and political issues.
Further resources for reading about the Prospect Archives and Center may be found at Resources link at the UVM website:
We are confident this revised edition of Prospect's Descriptive Processes will continue to provide a valuable alternative to other, more judgmental ways of looking at children's growth and learning as well as ways of documenting curriculum, teaching practice, and schools.
Information about the Prospect Archive, including the files of nine children from the Reference Edition are available on line through the Center for Digital Initiatives, Bailey/Howe Library
website: http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=prospect&title=Prospect
Posted by lstrieb at February 1, 2011 9:20 AM