syllabus updates for September 27

Please note: I've added the pages for Dewey and the correct information for the Reynolds piece. I'm not sure if the Reynolds piece has made it onto electronic reserve as of Wed. I gave to Kerry a hard copy on Monday, so perhaps Alana can check on it

If there is difficulty to link to the online editions of the books, try putting the titles in Google.

Best wishes, Patricia

Monday, September 27—An In-Depth Look at Three Early Experiments

Preparation for Class on September 27:

Negotiate Individual Contracts

Readings:

Experience and Education, John Dewey, pp. 25-50, 67-72, 89-91

“The Need of a Theory of Experience”; “Criteria of Experience”; “The Meaning of

Purpose”; “Experience: The Means and Goals of Education”

Progressive Ideals and Experimental Higher Education: The Example of John Dewey and Black Mountain College Katherine Reynolds in Education and Culture, Spring 1997 Vol. XIV. No.1 (E)

Dewey versus Hutchins: The Next Round, Thomas Ehrlich in Education and Democracy: Reimagining Liberal Learning in America, ed. Robert Orrill (E)

Robert Maynard Hutchins short essay, The Autobiography of an Uneducated Man http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/hutchins_robert_autobiography.html

Additional readings: To be divided up among seminar participants

Everyone should read ONE of the following books:

Black Mountain College: An Exploration in Community

Martin Duberman (Northwestern University Press, 1972) (P)

The Experimental College, Alexander Meiklejohn

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?id=UW.MeikExpColl

Higher Learning in America Robert Maynard Hutchins

http://www.ditext.com/hutchins/hutch0.html

Be prepared to teach your book to the rest of the seminar. Then we will discuss the various experiments and the intellectual ancestry of each.

According to my notes, these are the assignments:

Black Mountain: Eli, Ariel and Anne

Higher Learning in America: Alec and Jake

The Experimental College: Mary and Alana