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General Honors 210 - Seminar in Faculty-Student Collaborative Learning: Developing An Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Undergraduate Curriculum Focused on West Philadelphia. (Revision II)

Elijah Anderson (Sociology)
Lee Benson (History)
Robert Geigengack (Environmental Studies)
Ira Harkavy (History)
Francis Johnston (Anthropology)
Anne Spirn (Urban Studies)

Subject/Discipline: History
School: University of Pennsylvania
Project Area: 

Spring 1997



 
 
January 15-22  Collaborative Organization of Seminar
  "Students as Collaborators in Curriculum Construction"
  John G. Nichols and Theresa A. Thorkildsen, ed., Reasons for Learning: Expanding the Conversation on Student-Teacher Collaboration (1995), pp. 1-4, 114-136, 162-167.
  Leo S. Rowe, "University and Collegiate Research in Muncipal Government," in Clinton Rogers Woodruff ed., Proceedings of the Chicago Conference for Good City Government and the Tenth Annual Meeting of the National Muncipal League (1904), pp. 242-248.

 

  Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "Universities, Colleges, and Their Neighboring Communities" Universities and Community Schools, 5 (1995): 5-11. 
  Rogers Hollingsworth "Strategies for Excellence in American Universities," (unpublished address, September 20, 1996), pp. 1-23.
January 29 Anthropology 210, The Anthropology Department and Possible Courses Focused on West Philadelphia.
  Ira Harkavy, Francis E. Johnston, John L. Puckett, "The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Community Partnerships as an Organizational Innovation of Advancing Action Research," Concepts and Transformations 1 (1996): 15-29.
  Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "Anthropology 210," Universities and Community Schools, 4 (1994): 66-69.
February 5 Problem-Based Environmental Courses Focused on West Philadelphia
February 12 Cosmopolitan Civic Universities and Their Cities: Columbia and Chicago, 1890-1914; Brooklyn Polytechnic, 1975-1997.
  Gerald Kurland, Seth Low, pp. 50-62
  Edward Cary," Seth Low: A Character Sketch," Review of Reviews, 16: 33-42 (July 1897).
  Edward Shils, "The University, the City, and the World: Chicago and the University of Chicago," in Thomas Bender, ed., The University and the City, pp. 210-230.
  Darnell Rucker, The Chicago Pragmatists, pp. v-ix, 3-27, 158 -170.
  George Bugliarello, "Urban Knowledge Parks and Economic and Social Development Strategies, "Journal of Urban Planning and Development 122 (June 1996): 33-45
  George Bugliarello "MetroTech An Urban-University-Industry Park," Urban Technology 1 (Spring 1993): 41-47.
  "High Technology Grows in Brooklyn," Engineering News Record, February 10, 1992
  Harmon Zuckerman, "MetroTech as a Model," memorandum to Ira Harkavy, January 7, 1997
February 19 John Dewey and Kurt Lewin: Real-World Problem-Solving, Instrumental Education and Communal Participatory Action Research; Student Reports on Possible Seminar Papers
  Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "School and Community in the Global Society," Universities and Community Schools, 5 (1997): 16-71.
  Shelagh A. Gallagher et al., "The Effects of Problem-Based Learning on Problem Solving," Gifted Child Quarterly, 36: (Fall 1992): 195-200.
  Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, "What is PBL," (1996): 1-13.
  William Stepien and Shelagh Gallagher, "Problem-Based Learning:As Authentic as It Gets," Educational Leadership (April 1993): 25-28.
  Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, "Problems as Possibilities: Transforming Garbarge to Gold," (1996): 1-23.
  "Designing Assessments in a Problem-Based Learning Context," The Problem Log, 1 (Fall 1996): 4-5.
  "Here's to Seeing Green: Joining PBL and Information Literacy,î The Problem Log, 1 (Spring 1996): 3.
February 26 Anthropology 210 and the Anthropology Department Revisited; Student Reports.
March 5 Problem-Based Environmental Courses Focused on West Philadelphia Revisited; Student Reports
March 19 Innovative Problem-Based Courses and Curriculum at Other Colleges; Student Reports.
March 26 Problem-Based Sociology Courses Focused on West Philadelphia Revisited; Student Reports.
April 2-16 Student Reports
April 23 Summing Up and Where Do We Go From Here
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