Notes from classes 9/13,20,27

Contract conversation ideas for class
Sit in on a Pitzer class
Field trip to Deep Springs
Students attending CIEL conference

Notes from board on 9/20/10
Agenda Building on the early experiments

Issues that arose:

Learning vs. tangible goals (practical learning)
Strong leader vs. ground up initiative
Strong leader vs. sustainable growth
Role of ideology
Vision vs. practice
Primary vs. secondary sources
Bubble vs. real world
History
Faculty vs. students
World vs. America
Liberal Arts: What does it mean?

Notes on board: 9/27/10
Dewey v. Hutchins
Dewey
Empiricist
Individual essential
Student Centered
Creating effective individual
Trial and error
Experience
Embedded
Democracy
Critique “silly” progressivism
Hutchins
Critical thinking from books
Elitism/democracy/who determines the content
True books
Religious/truth
Everywhere the same
Romantic

What’s in common?
Teacher focused
Something wrong
Critics of not connecting the dots