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the freeman seminar
TEACHING ABOUT EAST ASIA
SYLLABUS
The Freeman Foundation has committed itself to the implementation of an educational program designed to encourage the integration of materials dealing with China, Japan and Korea into the elementary, middle and secondary school curriculum. In pursuit of these goals, this seminar, offered at Cleveland State University under the auspices of the East Asian Studies Centers at Indiana University and Ohio State University, will focus on a thematic introduction to the civilization and culture of two of these three cultures, China and Japan, (with some consideration given Korea in passing) in hopes of encouraging participating teachers to adopt and adapt the materials presented for use in their own classroom settings.
Each weekly seminar session will focus on a discrete set of historical and cultural materials from a variety of sources approached from various perspectives and points of view; sessions also will incorporate discussion of ways in which these subjects and resources might be successfully incorporated into the existing curriculum throughout the K - 12 spectrum.
Seminar participants are expected --
The following represent the specific educational objectives for the seminar: at the conclusion of the ten-week program, participants should be --
- to attend classroom seminar sessions promptly and faithfully,
- to complete the assigned preparatory reading and other assigned exercises prior to seminar attendance,
- to maintain an informal journal reflecting on the seminar proceedings to be shared with the instructor at weekly intervals and --
- to develop and present to their fellow participants a fully developed implementation proposal devoted to the integration of a specific topic addressed in the seminar schedule into current classroom plans, activities and practices.
- prepared to address in the classroom setting significant issues and themes associated with the educational exploration of Chinese and Japanese civilization and culture at an introductory and elementary level of understanding;
- aware of a variety of possible educational approaches to the successful integration of the subject matter covered in the seminar schedule into the elementary, middle and high school curriculum at a variety of levels;
- alert to a wide range of resource materials available to facilitate both the search for additional content-oriented information and the presentation of that material in the appropriate classroom setting; and --
- comfortable exploring, evaluating and utilizing educational resources tied to China, Japan and (to a lesser extent) Korea available on the World Wide Web and the Internet.
