What are Children For?
Every generation of new parents shares a common concern: adjusting the routines of daily life to the needs of children, and preparing children for the future that awaits them. Every generation addresses this concern differently. Modes of discipline, for example, that were normal in 1600 are virtually unheard of today. The assumption that education is a human right was unknown to our forebears. How do ideas about children, practices of child rearing, and conventions of education, change over time? Is there a “right” way to think about children? Is education best thought of as an institutionalized, systematized mode of engagement with children, or is it possible, anymore, to think of helping children grow in other ways?
Weekly Schedule:
Monday: 1:30-3:30 All-Program Meeting
Tuesday: 10-11 Glenn's office hour, Sem II D4106, 11-1 Seminar; 2-3:30 Lecture/Workshop; 3:30-4:30 All-Program Tea; 4:30-5:30 Nancy's office Hour, Lab II 2255
Thursday: 9-11 Writing Workshop; 12:30-2:30 Seminar; 3-4 Final All-Program Meeting
Faculty:
Nancy Koppelman, Lab II 2255, voice: 867-6383, koppelmn@evergreen.edu; Office Hours: Tues, 4:30-5:30
Glenn Landram, Sem II D4106, voice: 867-5434, landramg@evergreen.edu; Office Hours: Tues, 10:00-11:00
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