Word: fieldwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search committee will probably consider experimentalists, who are skilled at fieldwork with vertebrate populations, Taylor explained, rather than "theoretical" behavioralists, like Wilson
...from this development in minority applications, but each point to different reasons for it. Harvard works mainly through alumni and students. Admissions officials travel around the country, running up a tab of from $30 to $50,000, to add momentum to the local alumni organizations that do the actual fieldwork...
...exceptions to Harvard's current policy, Whitlock said, are programs sponsored by a student's department such as the "Junior Year Abroad" program and "fieldwork" centers like the biology division in Woodshole, Mass...
Harvard has given credit for fieldwork in the past, but only for either individual projects or for specialized courses in departments such as psychology. What the new Redbook committee might do is to establish the concept of fieldwork combined with academic work as a governing principle of education at Harvard, making it available to all on a wide range of subject matter. Next year, for the first time, General Education will offer a 100-level course in which fieldwork constitutes an important part of the instruction: "Education, Learning, and the Theories and Practice of Teaching" will combine readings and critical...
...that the Redbook committee might consider. In next year's seminar on the "Problems of Bilingual People in an Urban Environment," the student's research will be based on his work as a volunteer in agencies such as schools and hospitals in a Boston bilingual community. The combination of fieldwork with rigorous academic inquiry offers a fruitful organizing principle for the Gen Ed program. It might infuse liberal education at Harvard with a spirit that has waned in the 30 years since the original Redbook attempted to form the Harvard student in the mold of the Renaissance...