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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Committee appointed by the Vermont State Teachers' Association in 1863 in 329 pages; Subjects: Education; Education / General; Education / Aims ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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An impressive work of historical recovery, Discovering Black Vermont tells the story of three generations of free blacks trying to build a life and community in northern Vermont in the years following statehood. By piecing together fragments of the history of free blacks in Vermont--tax and estate records, journals, diaries, and the like--the author recovers what is essentially a lost world, establishing a framework for using primary sources to document a forgotten past. The book is an invaluable resource for those conducting local history research and will serve as inspiration for high school and college students and their teachers. ... Read more

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The articles in this volume provide an introduction to some of the most important themes in current historical debates on the relationship between government and business. The range of potential topics is huge and other volumes in this series will focus on more specific areas such as the regulatory role of governments or relations between multinational corporations and host country governments. In this volume the theme of Part One is the contribution of government policies to industrialization and the structuring of the business environment. In Part Two the focus shifts to the interaction of business and politics, examining the influence of business organizations on political change, the use of politics for competitive advantage, the collective political organization of employers, and the response of business to major political crises such as war, depression and decolonization. In each case the aim has been to select articles that reflect the scope and nature of the debates and which indicate the major points of issues in methodology, approach and substantive historical conclusions. ... Read more

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A biography of the noted educator who was the first African American to graduate from an American college and the first to serve on a state legislature. ... Read more

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This work introduces, through story and essay, a disciplined descriptive process for understanding children's strengths as particular learners and thinkers. The descriptive review is a method of collaborative inquiry that draws on the detailed knowledge teachers and parents have of children. ... Read more

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From Another Angle
This is an interesting way to view kids learning. However, text is a bit on the dry side for reading.

SEEING OUR CHILDREN
FROM ANOTHER ANGLEis for teachers and parents--brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles--for any person who knows and loves a child--for anyone invested in helping that child reach his or her full potential as an ethical, creative, intellectual, spiritual, physical being.Pat Carini's compassionate vision of how we might begin to understand and teach our children shines through this collection on the Prospect School and the process of"Descriptive Review."

Margaret Himley has done an exceptional job of editing the volume, juxtaposing detailed descriptions of children and their learning styles with illuminating essays on the guiding philosophies of Prospect's processes.

The Descriptive Review of a Child is based on phenomenology, on the belief that all possible facets of human experience are valuable and important, worthy of inquiry and respectful contemplation.As Margaret Himley says,"Through description the person becomes more visible and real education begins, and it is, finally, this*taproot value of the person*that characterizes Prospect's particular ethical stance and that gives meaning to the descriptive processes.It is the ethical insistence on the hard work necessary to accord others--*all others*--the status of person, with all the complexity, capability, range of emotions and desires, and possibilities that we know ourselves to have."

Indeed, the actual Descriptive Reviews of Three Children--Gabriel, Victoria, and Nile--are at the heart of this remarable volume.Pat Carini and her Prospect colleagues believe curiosity is the core of all passionate learning.Students who are given the opportunity to pursue their natural interests are more inclined to take risks, to challenge themselves to work well beyond the expectations for their ages and grade levels."....

This thoughtful, cyclical work is the core of Prospect processes, a means of discovery that is neither singular nor static.In her lucid essay on the value of"Oral Inquiry,"Margaret Himley reminds us that language must remain fluid, that we must resist the tendency of words to"fix"ideas in our minds or to"explain"things in terms too reductive to be helpful.By participating in dialogues with others, by pooling information, we keep ourselves alert and flexible, willing to interrogate our own biases and perceptions, able to see and celebrate the unique spirits and the limitless potential of our children, our parents, our friends, ourselves.The joyful work of description is an explosive affirmation of life itself, the never-ending miracle of creation.

For twenty-six years, the work of Pat Carini and her colleagues at the Prospect School in North Bennington, Vermont transformed the lives of children and their families.Though the school closed in 1991 when the fragile financial base finally gave way, the work at Prospect continues, and the bold vision of Pat Carini continues to fire the imaginations of all who have ears to hear, voices to describe and encourage, hands to help, and minds to remain forever open and alive and curious.We cannot love our children unless we know them; we cannot nuture their unique interests and gifts unless we allow ourselves to watch them with absolute attention and wonder.Teachers and parents who visit the Prospect School, who read Carini's and Himley's work, who embrace the difficult and rewarding endeavor of Descriptive Review, will be forever changed.There is great hope in this--for all of us. ... Read more