| History 208: Penn
Program for Public Service Internship
Faculty: Cory Bowman,
bowman@pobox.upenn.edu
Eric Chen,
Ira Harkavy, harkavy@pobox.upenn.edu
Deirdra Stockmann, deridra@sas.upenn.edu
Subject/Discipline:
School: University of
Pennsylvania
Project Area:
Summer 2003
Working Title: Faculty-Student Collaborative Seminar on
Creating an Integrated, Problem-Solving, Democratic Schooling System: Penn
and West Philadelphia Public Schools as an Experiment in Progress
(provisional syllabus; to be developed as the seminar progresses)
Monday, June 2: Introduction to the Seminar
Readings for discussion:
Bok, D. “Universities and the Decline of Civic Responsibility.” Journal of
College and Character. (February, 2001)
Fish, S. “Aim Low: Confusing democratic values with academic ones can easily
damage the quality of education” Chronicle of Higher Education. (May 16,
2003)
Assignment for next class:
1) Write a 3-5 page autobiography. Who are you? How does
who you are influence what you care about? How does what you care about influence
who you are?
2) What are the three problems you care most passionately
about in the West Philadelphia-Penn community?
3) Why do you care about them?
4) Choose one or two passages from the reading that stood
out to you, that you would like more information about, that would like to
discuss further, etc.
Wednesday, June 4 History of Penn-West Philadelphia
Relationship, WEPIC, and the Center for community Partnerships.
Readings for discussion:
Astin, A. “Liberal Education and Democracy: The Case for Pragmatism.”
Benson, L & Harkavy, I. Selections from: “The Role of the American Research
University in Advancing System-Wide Education Reform, Democratic Schooling,
and Democracy.” (Brabeck, 2003).
--- . “De-Platonizing and Democratizing Education as the Bases of Service
Learning.” (Rhoades, 1997)
Harkavy, I, Puckett, J and Romer, D. “Action Research: Bridging Service and
Research. (Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2000).
Harkavy, I. “Honoring Community.” (Campus Compact Reader, Fall, 2002)
Problem Solving Learning Framework
Assignment for next class:
1) Choose the problem that you think you would like to
concentrate on this summer. (Don’t worry, this is not “set in stone.”)
2) Complete the PSL through 1.6 individually
3) At the house, share problems with each other. Identify
a few other interns who are interested in working on RELATED “problems.”
4) Choose one or two passages from the reading that stood
out to you, that you would like more information about, that would like to
discuss further, etc.
Monday, June 9 University-Assisted Community
Schools
Readings for discussion:
Benson, L & Harkavy, I. “Truly Engaged and Truly Democratic Cosmopolitan
Civic Universities, Community Schools, And Development Of The Democratic
Good Society in the 21st Century” (Sept, 2002)
Harkavy, I., Benson, L. “University-Assisted Community Schools as Democratic
Public Works” The Good Society (1999).
Dewey, J. School as Social Centre.Puckett, J. A Public Place, A Public
Purpose: Leonard Covello and the American Community School. Introduction,
Chapter 1, Chapter 12. (DRAFT, July 2002).
Assignment for next class:
1) In groups, or individually, continue to develop your
PSL, through step 3.
2) Choose one or two passages from the reading that stood
out to you, that you would like more information about, that would like to
discuss further, etc.
Wednesday, June 11 Building Collaborative
Partnerships: Penn and West Philadelphia
Readings for discussion:
Gamson, Z. “Collaborative Learning Comes of Age”
Harkavy, I. and Brown. “Making the Connection.”Rodin, J. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day speech. (January, 2000). “
Muzafer Sherif: A life of conflict and goals; for more than 50 years, his
innovative research has helped share the history of psychology.” (Psychology
Today, Sept 1985 v19 p54(6))
Assignments for next class:
1) To be determined
2) Choose one or two passages from the reading that stood
out to you, that you would like more information about, that would like to
discuss further, etc.
Monday, June 16 Overview of the Center for
Community Partnerships: Programs and Development, Successes and Failures
Readings:
Eisenberg, E. “Improving Undergraduate Education by Improving West Philadelphia
Schools: Penn’s America Reads Program at Drew Elementary School as a Case
Study.” (paper for Urban Studies 078, Spring 1999)
Gilfillan, S & Green, S. “Student Apathy and Community Space.”
(paper for History 214, Spring 2003)
Rubin, B. “Reconstructing Higher Education: Defining the Obstacles, Penn
as a Case Study.” (paper for History 214, Spring 1998)“West Philadelphia
Community – Penn Partnership To Improve Heath Related Quality of Life for
Children and Families” (Draft April, 2003)
Assignment for next class:
Wednesday, June 18 Problem-based Learning
and Problem-Solving Learning: What does it look like in practice?
Readings for discussion:
Coleman, W. “Self-directed Problem-based Learning in Mainstream Undergraduate
Courses.” (PBL Insight, v2n3, Fall 1999)
Harkavy, I. Forward to Jacoby, B. Building Partnerships for Service-Learning.
Heckman, P. “Planting Seeds: Understanding Through Investigation.” (Educational
Leadership, Feb., 1994)
Long, E.L. Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise. (1992) Prologue, Ch. 1,
Ch. 14.
Nicholls, J & Hazzard, S. “Students as Collaborators in Curriculum Construction.”
In Nicholls, J. & Thorkildsen, T., eds. Reasons for Learning: Expanding
the Conversation on student-teacher collaboration.
Assignment for next class:
1) Complete PSL as much as possible.
2) Compile a short bibliography of useful resources to
share with the class.
Monday, June 23 Democracy
Readings for discussion:
Beetham, D, Bracking, S, Kearon, I & Weir, S. International Handbook
on Democracy Assessment. (Kliwer Law International, 2002)
Carr, W. “The Curriculum in and for a Democratic Society.” (Curriculum Studies,
v6, n3, 1998)Colby, A, Ehrlich, T. “Educating Citizens.” (2003) (excerpts:
Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 10.)
Dewey, J. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us.” (excerpt from Morris,
D. and Shapiro, I. John Dewey: The Political Writings.)“Education for Citizenship
in Scotland: A paper for Discussion and Development.” (June, 2002).National
Society for Experiential Education. “Foundations of Experimental Education.”
(Dec. 1997)
Assignment for Wednesday:
1) Ponder the democracy questions, including: What does
it matter to have a democratic society? What is a democratic society? What
is the current state of democracy in America? Why does democratic education
matter for democratic society? How do you change education? What would democractic
education look like if you stepped into it?
2) WRITE a short mid-course evaluation considering the
following: What works in seminar? What has not worked? What should we do
in seminar for the next several weeks? Who needs to do what to make that
happen?
Wednesday, June 25 Mid-summer review, assessment
and planning
For discussion:Assignment from Monday. (see above)Assignments for next week:
1) Review, revise, and try to complete your PSL. Incorporate feedback and
additional research. EMAIL your PSLs to Cory and Deirdra BEFORE (preferably
the day before) our meetings on Monday.
Monday, June 30 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops with Cory and Deirdra, (4:30-6:30)
Wednesday, July 2 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops (3:00-4:30)
Seminar – Topics determined by the interns
Readings for discussion:
Caffrey, M., et al. Reducing Apathy at the University of Pennsylvania. (Paper
for seminar, Spring 2003.)
Heckman, P., Confer C. & Peacock, J. “Democracy in a Multicultural School
and Community.”
Heckman, P. “A Proposal for a Study of the Democratic Features of Elementary,
Secondary, Undergraduate, and Teacher Education Programs in the U.S.”
Sorenson, K. “Creating a Democratic Classroom: Empowering Students Within
and Outside School Walls.”
Assignment for Monday meetings:
Monday, July 7 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops with Cory and Deirdra, (4:30-6:30)
Wednesday, July 9 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops (3:00-4:30)
Seminar – Group led discussions- Sayre HPDP (Ruth, Aalok)-
Urban Fitness (Shannon, Heather)- Shaw Project Health (Lilia)Readings
for discussion:
Assignment for Monday meetings:
Monday, July 14 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops with Cory and Deirdra, (4:30-6:30)
Wednesday, July 16 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops (3:00-4:30)
Seminar – Group led discussions- School to Career (Muriel,
MaryBeth, Lynne)- Journalism (Naomi, Anjali)
Readings for discussion:
Assignment for Monday meetings:
Monday, July 21 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops with Cory and Deirdra, (4:30-6:30)
Thursday, July 24* rescheduled for Dr. Harkavy’s return!
Small group meetings/PSL workshops (3:00-4:30)
Seminar – Group led discussion- Arts in
Education (Missy, Maricarmen, Jackie, Candy, Nicole)- Sayre-Beacon
Community School (Chris)- All groups briefly update Dr.
Harkavy- Dr. Harkavy update
Readings for discussion:
Assignment for Monday meetings
Monday, July 28 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops with Cory and Deirdra, (4:30-6:30)
Wednesday, July 30 Small group meetings/PSL workshops (3:00-4:30)
Seminar – Group led discussions- Partnerships with the
Muslim community (Zaid)- Creating community space (Jooho)
Readings for discussion:
Assignment for Monday meetings
Monday, August 4 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops with Cory and Deirdra, (4:30-6:30)
Wednesday, August 6 Small group meetings/PSL
workshops (3:00-4:30)
Seminar – To be determined by seminar
Readings for discussion:
Assignment for Monday meetings
Monday, August 11 Small group meetings/Final
paper advising
Wednesday, August 13 LAST SEMINAR – Evaluation
and next steps
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