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General Honors (History) 214 - Seminar in Urban University-Community Relationships: Penn-West Philadelphia as a Strategic Test Case

Lee Benson
Ira Harkavy, harkavy@pobox.upenn.edu

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



 
January 15  Organization and Socialization
January 22 Universities and Their Cities: Columbia Presidents and New York City in the 1890's and 1990's, Seth Low vs. George Rupp; Student Reports on Choosing a West Philadelphia Problem to Solve.
  Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "Universities, Colleges, and Their Neighboring Communities," Universities and Community Schools, 5: (1997): 5-11.
  Gerald Kurland, Seth Low (1971), pp. 50-62.
  Edward Cary, "Seth Low: A Character Sketch," Review of Reviews, (July 1897): 16: 33-42.
  William R. Greiner, "The Courage To Lead: Engaging Universities and Colleges in Public Problem-Solving," Universities and Community Schools, 5 (1997): 12-14.
January 29 Developing Students' Capacity to Solve Ill-Structured Problems: How Penn Could Improve Undergraduate Education and Raise The Level of well-being in West Philadelphia.
  Shelagh A. Gallagher et al., "The Effects of Problem-Based Learning on Problem Solving, Gifted Child Quarterly, (Fall 1992): 36: 195-200.
  Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, "What Is PBL" (1996),pp. 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 Garbage 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," The Problem Log 1 (Spring 1996): 3.
  Patricia M. King and Karen S. Kitchener, Developing Reflective Judgment, pp. 1-19, 222-257.
February 5 Student Progress Reports.
February 12-19 Universities and Their Cities Revisited; Chicago, Brooklyn Polytechnic and Penn
  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.
  Nadine Post "High Technology Grows in Brooklyn," Engineering News Record, February 10, 1992.
  Harmon Zuckerman "MetroTech as a Model," memorandum to Ira Harkavy, January 7, 1997.
  Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "School and Community in the Global Society," Universities and Community Schools, 5: (1997): 16-71.
February 26 - March 19 Student Progress Reports.
March 26 Contemporary Universities and Conflicting Strategies for the Advancement of Knowledge and Student Learning: Unintegrated Complexity vs. Integrated Complexity.
  J. Rogers Hollingsworth, "Strategies For Excellence in American Universities." (unpublished address, September 20, 1996), pp. 1-23.
  Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "Progressing Beyond The Welfare State," Universities and Community Schools, 2 (1991): 2-28.
Lee Benson and Ira Harkavy, "1994 as Turning Point: The University-Assisted Community School Idea Becomes A Movement," and "Anthropology 210," Universities and Community Schools, 4 (1994): 5-9, 66-69.
April 2-16 Student Progress Reports
April 23 Summing Up and Where Do We Go From Here
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