Course Schedule for Fall 2006

 

 

Date

Topics to be covered
Readings & Assignments
Tuesday
22 Aug 06
Introduction &
Discussion of Criteria
 

Thursday
24 Aug 06

An Overview of
“Education & the State”

* “The Rise of Modern Education”

Brainstorming about possible topics…

Tuesday
29 Aug 06
Library Session Meet at 4:00 in the Electronic Reading Room (main floor, across from the elevators)

Thursday
31 Aug 06

The Common School

Schooled to Order, pp. 3-43.

“A Puzzling Reticence: Education and the American Founding”

Tuesday
5 Sept 06

Session at the
University Archives

The American State Normal School, pp. 9-52.

 

Thursday
7 Sept 06

School Reform

Schooled to Order, pp. 44-84.

* Selected writings of Horace Mann

Tuesday
12 Sept 06

American
National Identity

* The Futility of Educating the Indians

* Character of Columbus

Proposal & Preliminary Bibliography Due…

Thursday
14 Sept 06

High Schools

Schooled to Order, pp. 87-158.

* The Massachusetts High School Law of 1827

Tuesday
19 Sept 06

Assimilation
vs. Acculturation

The American State Normal School, pp. 55-119.

* “‘Clothing Themselves in Intelligence’: The Freedpeople, Schooling and Northern Teachers, 1861-1871”

Thursday
21 Sept 06

Where does BGSU fit in the scheme of things?

The American State Normal School, Appendix.

Annotated Bibliography Due…

Tuesday
26 Sept 06

Editing Day

* “The Brilliant Opening of a Stubborn Battle”

Complete Editing Sheet prior to class…

Thursday
28 Sept 06

International Education
(pre-modern)

* Packet of documents to be handed out in class.

Tuesday
3 Oct 06

International Education
(western)

“A Plea for the Highlands of Scotland”

“Citizenship Education in England, Ireland and Northern Ireland”

Thursday
5 Oct 06

International Education
(non-western)

* Packet of documents to be handed out in class.

Tuesday
10 Oct 06

No class – Fall Break!

 

Thursday
12 Oct 06

Small group session

2 Copies of First Draft Due…

Tuesday
17 Oct 06

Peer Evaluation

In-class Peer Review of First Drafts… (Read your partner’s first draft & complete 2 copies of feedback form.)

Thursday
19 Oct 06

Social Effects
of Education

The American State Normal School, pp. 121-209.

“Gendering the Wisconsin Idea”

Tuesday
24 Oct 06

Post-War Education

Schooled to Order, pp. 161-243.

“The Cold War According to My Weekly Reader”

Thursday
26 Oct 06

Imperial Education
& Decolonization

“Education and Cuba Libre, 1989-1958”

“Democratization or neocolonialism? The education of Muslims under US military occupation, 1903-1920”

Tuesday
31 Oct 06

Cultural Policy

* National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (excerpts)

Thursday
2 Nov 06

Monuments & Museums

* My Smithsonian (excerpts) & Chapter 9 from The Stranger & the Statesman

Tuesday
7 Nov 06

National Parks
& Historic Sites

* Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park

* Criteria for the National Register of Historic Places

Thursday
9 Nov 06
Patriotism & Indoctrination

“Rocky & Bullwinkle”

“Schoolhouse Rock”

Second Draft Due...

Tuesday
14 Nov 06
Musicals…

“The King & I”

“Good News”

“Grease"

Thursday
16 Nov 06

Science Fiction…

“Space Camp”

“Starship Troopers”

Tuesday
21 Nov 06

The One-Room Schoolhouse…

“Little House on the Prairie”

“North & South: Book 3”

Thursday
23 Nov 06

No class –
Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

Tuesday
28 Nov 06

High School…

“Blackboard Jungle”

“Lean on Me”

“Stand and Deliver”

Thursday
30 Nov 06

College…

“The Freshman”

“Mona Lisa Smile”

“Pigskin Parade”

Tuesday
5 Dec 06

Recent films…

“Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire”

“The Legend of Zorro”

Thursday
7 Dec 06

Paper Presentations w/Abstract Three copies of Final Draft Due…please do not staple them.

Monday
11 Dec 06

Paper Presentations w/Abstract

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Note:  The movies and television series listed on the syllabus are subject to change, and may well alter depending on what topics are selected for student papers, so that student interests are represented.