From Another Angle: Children's Strengths and School Standards : the Prospect Center's Descriptive Review of the Child

From Another Angle: Children's Strengths and School Standards : the Prospect Center's Descriptive Review of the Child
ISBN-10
0807739316
ISBN-13
9780807739310
Category
Education
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
2000-03
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Authors
Margaret Himley, Patricia F. Carini

Description

This volume represents the first effort to present, and teach, the descriptive processes, philosophy, and values developed at the Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research in North Bennington, Vermont. Through story and essay, it introduces a disciplined, collaborative method for understanding children as thinkers and learners called the descriptive review of the child. Developed through the Prospect Center, under the leadership of Patricia F. Carini, the descriptive review is a mode of inquiry that draws on the rich, detailed knowledge teachers and parents have of children and on their ability to describe those children in full and balanced ways, so that they become visible as complex persons with particular strengths, interests, and capacities. In an educational climate that calls increasingly for standardization, this book is a timely resource for educators, parents, and administrators who value individual human capacity.

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