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(Alva) 08_015
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    • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
    • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


    (Alva) 08_054
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      • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
      • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


      (Alva) 08_099
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        • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
        • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


        (Alva) 08_101
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          • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
          • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


          (Alva) 06_212
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            • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
            • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


            (Alva) 06_219
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              • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
              • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Alva), (Alva) Extended Image Selection


              Prospect Archive of Children's Work
                • Creator: Prospect School and Center for Education and Research
                • Description: The Prospect Center for Education and Research, located in North Bennington, VT, started in 1965 as a school for elementary, and later, middle school children. The School closed in 1991 and the Center in 2010. Featured here are substantial, digitized selections of the work of nine students of the several hundred who attended the School. The School’s daily schedule included large blocks of time for its students to work with a broad range of materials individually and together, in self-directed ways. Visual and written work left behind was gathered and saved and eventually became the Prospect Archive of Children's Work, which now also contains teacher records and some subsequently donated work. The Archive is a unique resource, offering a longitudinal perspective on children’s thinking and growth. It has been used for many years by teachers and other educators—employing methods for collaborative study developed at the Prospect Center—to further understanding of individual children, of children in school, of what in the educational setting supports their learning, and ultimately, of larger questions about human work, thought, and capacity. It is Prospect’s hope that the children’s work and supporting material on this site and in the Special Collections Library at UVM will be used by educators to continue their study in service to the idea that each child offers something new to the world, a fresh perspective, a renewed meaning, and that it is the work of education to enable that emergence. This collection includes the work of nine individual children and The Introduction to the Reference Edition of the Prospect Archive (1985), which offers background and descriptions of the Prospect School, the Archive of Children’s Work, and the Reference Edition itself, from which all the children’s work and related material on this site have been drawn. The Reference Edition of the Prospect Archive is a slide, microfiche and manuscript compilation of the complete works of thirty-six children. Note: The convention of parentheses around the children’s names indicates a pseudonym. The Prospect Center for Education and Research, located in North Bennington, VT, started in 1965 as a school for elementary, and later, middle school children. Out of its own efforts to learn more about children and how best to provide for and encourage their learning, the Prospect School grew to encompass a variety of teacher education programs, research projects, and an archive of children’s work and transformed itself into the Prospect Center in 1979. The School closed in 1991. The Center continued some of its adult education and research activities, and undertook an ambitious publication program, until its closing in 2010.


                (Sean)
                  • Creator: Prospect School and Center for Education and Research
                  • Date Created: 2008-09-11
                  • Description: (Sean’s) collection spans nine years, 1971-1980, ages 4 years and 9 months to 13 years and 6 months. The collection contains 1,140 items, which are reproduced in full on microfiche in the Reference Edition. (Sean’s) work is marked by a spirit of experimentation, a sense of the artist himself as a medium, and continuing preoccupation with such ideas as transformation, doubleness, reversibility, magic, trickery, disaster and rescue, the hidden world, and befallenness. In visual work, (Sean) used every physical medium available, from paint to prints, photography, and sewing, with preference given to plain pencil. His experimental attitude is further visible in lots of reworking and preliminary and marginal sketches. He is a virtuoso of line; his rare use of color is charged. In both visual and written work, work within the same year veers from great sophistication to less accomplished pieces. Overall, he seems to privilege experimentation over finished statements. Figures are singular, generic. The eye and the self-portrait are two continuous, striking motifs in visual work. Mirroring, images within images (a hand drawing a picture), figure-ground ambiguity, and forms of trickery, punning, magic, and tantalizing/provocative ambiguity, often with an edge of sly humor, are characteristic. In writing, (Sean) also practiced many genres. Unnamed, singular characters and un-located events abound—the boy, the deer, the lady, the cowboy, the river. His language is spare and economical, with occasional stunning adjectives. Action consists of movement and progress is dream-like. Compositional structure is by repetition, recurrence, parallelism, alternation or reversals, which often confuse figure and ground. In the later years, a new lyricism appears, especially in watercolors of land- and seascapes, or, in writing, descriptions of nature.
                  • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work


                  (Sean) Concise Image Selection
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                    • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                    • Description: This sub-set of 60 images was selected for this website by the same person who originally processed the collection in 1983-85. The selection was somewhat influenced by the quality of reproduction in digital form. Prospect participants have found that 60 images are sufficient, and manageable, for a group of teachers to begin to see how a body of work by a child, created spontaneously and collected over a period of years, reveals persisting patterns of thematic interest and stylistic characteristics and reflects back on how the child thinks and what might support his or her learning. It is Prospect‚Äôs hope that this selection will be used by educators for this purpose.
                    • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Sean)


                    SelectedImages
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                      • Creator: Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research
                      • Description: This sub-set of 60 images was selected based primarily on study of the 363 color slides. The selection was also somewhat influenced by the quality of reproduction in digital form. Prospect participants have found that 60 images are sufficient, and manageable, for a group of teachers to begin to see how a body of work by a child, created spontaneously and collected over a period of years, reveals persisting patterns of thematic interest and stylistic characteristics and reflects back on how the child thinks and what might support his or her learning. It is Prospect‚Äôs hope that this selection will be used by educators for this purpose.
                      • Parent Collections: Prospect Archive of Children's Work, (Virginia)