EDP 394L: 13:00 – 15:00

RESCUED EUROPEAN SCHOLARS: 1932-1939

FIRST DAY: 17/2/2006• Introductions: Start at 13:00

– Who are we?– Syllabus– Weekly Calendar– Online discussions– Resources

• CD– PDF files: The Practical Theorist (Kurt Lewin).

» Other related pdf files for reading.– Excel Files

• Web• Miami Library

– http://www.lib.muohio.edu» Indexes and databases» Biography Resource Center » Encyclopaedia Britannica Online » http://en.wikipedia.org

• Video of Rescued Scholars• End First Class by 15:00

Beginning the Second Week

• Background information on Kurt Lewin

Kurt Lewin Memorial: Mogilno, Poland September 9, 2004

University of Berlin People:

Heider

Koffka

Kohler

Stumpf

Important Students in Berlin:

Dembo

Zeigarnik

Ovsiankina

Birenbaum

The Quasselstrippe:

Quassel = Ramble on

Strippe = string

Definition:

A group with whom you could just get together and talk freely

A big Quaselstrippe: people who attended the 2001 memorial conference

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

• Lewin Memorial Award Winners. http://www.spssi.org

• National Training Laboratory (NTL)

• Research Center For Group Dyamics

Week Three

• David Brooks notion of “HUMAN CAPITAL”• Albert Einstein Video• The “Five Square Game” from NTL• Kurt Lewin’s American Influences

– Ronald Lippitt [Richard Schmuck’s mentor]– Morton Deutsch [David Johnson’s mentor]– Jacob Kounin [Sherman’s mentor]– Roger Barker– Many others…

HUMAN CAPITAL:

DAVID BROOKS

CULTURAL:Family, neighbors, ethnic

groups

SOCIAL: Behavior in groups and

within institutions

MORAL: Ability to be trustworthy

COGNITIVE: Brain Power,

IQ

INTELLECTUAL: Ideas and thinking

stylesASPIRATIONAL:Ambition

to Achieve

Beginning the Fourth Week

• Lewin’s Contemporary Influences

• Another Example: Leo Strauss

• The “Communications Simulation Game”

• The Paper

Lewin’s Contemporary Influences

• The Commission for Community Inter-relations (C.C.I) established in 1945

• 1954 Supreme Court Decision in “Brown vs the Board of Education, Topica, Kansas”

• Desegregation of American Schools

• Affirmative Action in the work place and the university.

The Commission for Community Inter-relations (C.C.I) established in 1945: Three priority research areas.

• The conditions which improve the effectiveness of community leaders who are attempting to better inter-group relations. For example what are the most effective and practical methods of training such leaders? What are the principles governing the choice of trainees? What can be done to promote the maintenance of the operating efficiency to which such leaders are brought as a result of training?

• The effect of the conditions under which contact between persons from different groups takes place. E.g., what conditions result in an improvement of attitude and in harmonious relations and what conditions bring about the converse? Formation of particular friendships as against the formation of friendly feelings toward other cultural groups taken as a whole? What conditions result in the formation of lasting favorable attitudes as against those susceptible to easy reversal in a prejudiced environment?

• The influences which are most effective in producing in minority group members an increased sense of belongingness, an improved personal adjustment, and better relations with individual of other groups.

Key members of C.C.I• Stuart Cook [Brown testimony]• Isidor Chein [Brown testimony]• Kenneth B. Clark [Brown testimony]

– APA President by 1970; passed away last year (2005)• Morton Deutsch

• [Conflict Resolution] • Dorwin Cartwright

• [Group Dynamics Center] • Alex Bavelas

• [NTL, 5-square game]• Leon Festinger

• [Cognitive Dissonance and resolution]• Ronald Lippitt

• [Leadership and action research]

Primary American Influences:A “liberal” agenda of action.

• Desegregation of American Schools• Busing • Desegregating by School region changes• Affirmative Action in American Universities

• Desegregation of the work places:• Ethnic groups [African American; Latino]• Gender• General “integration” of the work environments

Leo Strauss: See New York Review of Books articles

• Philosopher who arrives in USA in 1937

• Classical concerns of Plato and Aristotle

• Initially at the New School for Social Research in New York

• University of Chicago

• Claimed as the foundation of current “Neo-Conservative” thought and political science.

Key Contemporary people

• Vice President Chaney

• Paul Wolfowitz [presently the head of the World Bank, appointed in 2005 by President Bush]

• Richard Perle [Republican Party ]

• Neo-Conservative Perspective in political science.

The Case of Leo Strauss

Born 1899, Marburg, Germany

Rescued, 1932

University of Chicago, dies

in 1973Philosophy/

Plato-Socrates

New School for social Research

Contemporary Focus

political science

Zionist

Republican neo-conservatives

Paul Wolfowitz-World Bank, 2006

Richard Perle, Rupublican

Party

Talk about the Paper Project

• The Paper– About 5 to 10 pages– You Chose the Person of Interest

• The Presentation to the class.– About 20 minutes– Allow about 5 minutes for Q&A

Paper/Presentation

Project

why you chose them?

What was their "human

capital"?

Who did they influence?

Evidence of contemporary

influence?

What did you learn from

this project?

Structrural Elements

Length: 5 to 10 pages

References

Their Personal contributions

Some references from their

students/who they

influenced

Fifth Week: Paper Presentations

• Robin Armstrong: Hannah Arendt

• Michelle Hoekstra: Theodor Adorno

• Audrey Freeman: Herbert Marcuse

• Christie Kelley: Bertolt Brecht

• Katie Leimkuehler: Thomas Mann

Sixth Week: Wrap Up

• Attempted to see some patterns from the class content.

• Endings

• Course Evaluation

Our last “Cognitive Map” of the class content

Power of othrers

discrimination: Barriers

EDP 394L The Papers

Armstrong: Hannah Arendt

Freeman: Herbert Marcuse

Hoekstra: Theodor Adorno

Kelley: Bertolt Brecht

Leimkuehler: Thomas Mann

POWER

Literature & Marxism

Critical thinking

Gender Issues

EDP 394L, Spring, 2006 Class Picture: From Left to right: Audrey Freeman, Katie Leimkuehler, Christie Kelley, Michelle Hoekstra, Robin Armstrong.