Word: dowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experimental social studies program called "Man: A Course of Study." The one-year course was devised by Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, director of Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, Irven DeVore, professor of anthropology at Harvard, Asen Balikci, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, and Peter B. Dow of Education Development Center Inc., the nonprofit Cambridge firm that produces the course materials. "We're trying to present a point of view," says Bruner. "We want to give children some appreciation of what a fantastic species man is-that he's not helpless; that...
...known about the life cycles and behavior patterns of particular animal species (salmon, herring gulls, baboons). The animal facts are designed to stimulate freewheeling discussions about human behavior, mainly as the kids see it. "We are trying to rely as much on their insights as possible," says Course Director Dow. "We would argue that it's more fruitful to let the analogies grow out of the experience of the kids than to try to structure the analogies for them...
...Violence. As Bruner sees it, the problems of the course fascinate children because they are universal and immediate. "A generation ago, the problem for kids was sex," he says. "For this generation, it's violence." Indeed, the course seems to work particularly well in ghetto schools. Observes Dow: "Urban kids are much more attuned to questions of survival and not so frightened by some of the gutsier issues like death and reproduction." Few parents have objected to the course, even though it contains rather fundamental information on mating habits and some of the bloodiest film imaginable on the slaughtering...
Pusey traces the origins of the "new style and new intensity in campus political activities" to the 1966 protests against Robert S. McNamara and the 1967 demonstration in which a recruiter from Dow Chemical was held in a room for several hours...
...After the Dow and Paine Hall protests, Pusey says, the "turbulent dramatic events of last April" came as no surprise. University administrators "had seen them coming for a long time, had in fact come to think of them as inevitable because of the dog-like persistence of some few determined young rebels...