EDP 394L: 13:00 – 15:00

1. EDP 394L: 13:00 – 15:00 RESCUED EUROPEAN SCHOLARS: 1932-1939

2. 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

3. Beginning the Second Week • Background information on Kurt Lewin

4. Kurt Lewin Memorial: Mogilno, Poland September 9, 2004 University of Berlin People: Heider Koffka Kohler Stumpf Important Students in Berlin: Dembo Zeigarnik Ovsiankina Birenbaum

7. The Quasselstrippe: Quassel = Ramble on Strippe = string Definition: A group with whom you could just get together and talk freely

8. A big Quaselstrippe: people who attended the 2001 memorial conference

9. 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

10. 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…

12. Beginning the Fourth Week • Lewin’s Contemporary Influences • Another Example: Leo Strauss • The “Communications Simulation Game” • The Paper

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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]

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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.

21. 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

24. Fifth Week: Paper Presentations • Robin Armstrong: Hannah Arendt • Michelle Hoekstra: Theodor Adorno • Audrey Freeman: Herbert Marcuse • Christie Kelley: Bertolt Brecht • Katie Leimkuehler: Thomas Mann

25. Sixth Week: Wrap Up • Attempted to see some patterns from the class content. • Endings • Course Evaluation

26. Our last “Cognitive Map” of the class content

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