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University of Chicago Library

Guide to the Joseph J. Schwab Papers 1939-1986

© 2007 University of Chicago Library

Descriptive Summary

Title:

Schwab, Joseph J. Papers

Dates:

1939-1986

Size:

6.5 linear feet (13 boxes)

Repository:

Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract:

Joseph J. Schwab (1909-1988), Professor of Natural Sciences and Education. The Papers comprise including drafts and notes of published and unpublished works, professional and personal correspondence, examinations and other teaching materials, and audio tapes. They document Schwab's career at the University of Chicago, and some of his subsequent work at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California.

Information on Use

Access

The collection isopen for research. Series IV, Audio Tapes, does not include access copies for all or part of the material in the series. Researchers will need to consult with staff before requesting material from this series. The remainder of the collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Schwab, Joseph J. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Biographical Note

Joseph Jackson Schwab was born on February 2, 1909 in Columbus, Mississippi, where he attended a private elementary school that served as a practice school for the prospective teachers of the local women's college. After the sixth grade, Schwab entered the public schools where he discovered science. As Schwab was virtually alone among his classmates in his interests in science, the principal of the high school, who was a former science teacher, encouraged his creative license by giving him free reign in the school laboratory. Schwab became fascinated with the poisonous snakes and other animals kept there and delighted in setting off homemade gunpowder by pounding it with an ax. He finished high school in three years and in 1924, at the age of fifteen, he set off by train for the University of Chicago where he was to remain for almost fifty years. Schwab quickly grew dissatisfied with the way undergraduate science was taught at Chicago. The excitement he had experienced in learning science as an ongoing process of inquiry, discovery and debate had been reduced to the memorization of dry conclusions as if they were definitive truths. Much of the rest of his career was spent fighting this way of teaching science. He did encounter a few teachers that provided him with positive models of teaching, and among these was James Weber Linn in English. After completing his general requirements in the first five quarters, Schwab spent the rest of his undergraduate time studying the humanities and graduated with a major in English literature in 1930.

The next fall he began graduate study at Chicago using the opportunity to return to his interests in the biological sciences. His attention even then was drawn to the question of how to teach science. Merle Coulter, professor of botany, made a lasting impression on Schwab by having his graduate students read and critique each other's work in small group discussions. To Schwab this way of teaching offered a great deal of promise.

Schwab's graduate career coincided with Robert Hutchins's arrival as president of the University of Chicago and his efforts to revitalize undergraduate education. Schwab quickly became good friends with Hutchins and established a close professional relationship that continued throughout their careers at Chicago and on to Santa Barbara. Through Hutchins, Schwab met two other colleagues who greatly influenced the direction of his thought, Richard McKeon and Ralph Tyler, professors of philosophy and education. McKeon nurtured Schwab's understanding of Aristotle and introduced him to the writings of John Dewey. Throughout their association during the next fifty years, Tyler encouraged Schwab to turn his thought to the value and practice of the liberal arts as well as to develop his own rationale for curriculum development.

Schwab completed his M.S. in zoology in 1936 and then accepted a fellowship in science education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The following year he returned to Chicago as an instructor in the biological sciences. In 1938 he won his first Quantrell award for excellence in teaching, and he received his doctorate in genetics in 1939.

Schwab had become invaluable to Hutchins' effort to create an integrated curriculum because of his knowledge of both the humanities and the natural sciences. He represented the natural sciences in the planning sessions for the fourth year course, Observation, Interpretation, and Integration (OII), a capstone of Hutchins' liberal arts curriculum. Further, he was responsible for developing discussion as a viable alternative to lecture in the core courses and throughout the curriculum. Having found his niche, and a way of maintaining the contact with students which gave him so much satisfaction, Schwab largely abandoned any ambitions of a research career and concentrated on undergraduate teaching.

His value to Hutchins and his associates is reflected in the quick succession of positions Schwab held the next ten years. In 1941, Schwab was hired as an assistant professor in the natural sciences. The following year, Hutchins appointed Schwab to the examiner's office where he wrote the final comprehensive examinations in the biological sciences while continuing to teach OII and courses in biology. Schwab was named Assistant Dean of Students in charge of Student Civilian Defense in 1943. At that time, Hutchins informed him that he would have to have an appointment in one of the graduate divisions in order to eventually secure full professorship. With the help of Tyler and Harold Dunkel, Schwab received an additional appointment as Assistant Professor of Education. He became Associate Professor of Natural Sciences in the College in 1945, Associate Professor of Education in 1946, and Chairman of the College Natural Sciences Staff in 1947. The next year he was elected to the University Senate. In 1949 he assumed full professorship in the natural sciences of the college and was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought. The next year he achieved the same rank in education and then, in 1951, just ten years after beginning the tenure process, Schwab was named to an endowed chair, becoming the William Rainey Harper Professor of Natural Sciences in the College. In 1953, Schwab became the first member of the faculty to win the Quantrell Award twice.

Schwab's professional work pursued three aims. The first was to reconceptualize the teaching of science in all levels of schooling. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Teacher Preparation for the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study from 1959 to 1961. In this role he wrote The Biology Teacher's Handbook, a key part of the committee's efforts to change teaching methods for high school biology. In addition, he edited the first editions of the textbooks. He gave the Inglis Lecture at Harvard in 1960 and served on numerous boards and committees, including the Committee on General Education of the Association of Higher Education, the National Association of Research on Science Teaching, National Science Foundation Curriculum Improvement Section, the Committee of Curriculum and Training in the Medical and Para-medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, and Sections on Curriculum Development and Demonstration Programs at the U.S. Office of Education.

A second aim of Schwab's thought was a defense of liberal education, and later its reformulation, when it became apparent in the 1950s that Hutchins' experiment could not be sustained. In this pursuit, Schwab helped to found the Journal of General Education, and served on the editorial boards of other journals, including Curriculum Inquiry and School Review. At the urging of Hutchins, he consulted, along with McKeon, on the Great Books of the Western World project produced under the auspices of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

In a very influential book, College Curriculum and Student Protest, Schwab traced the turmoil on college campuses in the 1960s to the abandonment of the ideals of liberal education. This was a threat Schwab felt very close to home. With the demise of the "Hutchins College" in the 1950s, Schwab largely abandoned undergraduate teaching at Chicago and devoted most of his efforts to the Department of Education. In November of 1963, Schwab proposed a reorganization of the College into a group of separate colleges somewhat similar to the Oxford system. The proposal aroused considerable debate and discussion, but was largely abandoned in favor of the more modest restructuring advocated by the Dean of the College, Wayne Booth, and the University Provost, Edward Levi.

Then in 1969 at an invited address during the annual meeting of the American Educational Researchers Association entitled "The Practical," Schwab presented ideas which revitalized curriculum research. For a field that his colleague, Decker Walker had declared "moribund" several years earlier, Schwab's vision of curriculum development created a great deal of excitement and controversy. He harshly criticized the current use of objectives and argued for a conception of curriculum development that respected the complexities of teachers and students as human beings. He went on to publish four articles which further explicated his vision.

The third field into which Schwab divided his efforts was the area of Jewish education. In the early 1960s he accepted chairmanship of the Academic Board of the Melton Research Center at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Stimulated by several students who encouraged him to consider seriously his religious background, most notably Seymour Fox and Burton Cohen, he published several tracts and a number of articles on character education and related topics. He served as a consultant for Camp Ramah. Schwab tended to keep this work strictly isolated from the rest of his professional life. Thus few of his publications through the Melton Center appear in bibliographies of his work, and most of his colleagues knew little about his work in this field.

In 1974, Schwab retired from the University of Chicago and joined the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, founded by Robert Hutchins in Santa Barbara, California. At the Center, Schwab participated in numerous conversations with colleagues on a wide range of issues, many of which were published in the Center Magazine. He continued writing, publishing and teaching about curriculum development and character education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Claremont College, and Stanford University, among other schools. Schwab was hired as a consultant to help the senior faculty think through the conception of a new institute on the campus of Michigan State University. In the autumns of 1976 and 1977, with his former student Lee Shulman, Schwab conducted a series of seminars that led to the founding of the Institute for Research on Teaching.

Schwab remained in Santa Barbara until 1986 when health problems forced him to move in with his daughter in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1988.

Scope Note

. The collection is organized in five series:

Series I: CORRESPONDENCE

Series II: WRITINGS

Series III: TEACHING MATERIALS

Series IV: MISCELLANEOUS

Series V: AUDIO TAPES

Schwab kept pertinent letters with particular manuscripts or notes and this order has been honored. The remaining correspondence is organized alphabetically and the teaching materials are classified by course and then chronologically. Published and unpublished writings have been separated and arranged chronologically as best as can be determined. As Schwab's research and teaching were so tightly intertwined, the researcher is advised to look for materials under both headings.

The materials in the collection record Schwab's intellectual activity over the period from the late 1950s through the 1980s. The collection holds a number of unpublished manuscripts for journal articles and the complete unpublished manuscript for a book. Also included are notes and plans from the early 1970s for a book on curriculum to be written jointly with Seymour Fox. The collection's audio tapes include two sets of cassettes recording the seminars Schwab and Lee Shulman of Stanford conducted with the faculty of Michigan State University, which were part of the process that led to the establishment of the Institute for Research on Teaching. In addition, the papers hold a sizeable number of teaching materials, including several for the final integrative course in the college of the 1940s, "Observation, Interpretation, and Integration." Unfortunately, the collection does not contain much in the way of correspondence, early drafts of Schwab's published works, research notes from early in his career through the 1950s, or many records of his activity in the promotion of Jewish education.

The unpublished book, Community; A Mission for the Schools, arose out of a series of discussions with thirty colleagues at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara and the Education Department of the University of Chicago in the early 1970s. The participants included Robert Hutchins, Harry Ashmore, Ralph Tyler, Harold Dunkel, Wayne Booth, and Karl Weintraub. They addressed three questions; "what is the public interest, in what ways it falls short in this, our time, and how can the public school contribute to its health."

Many of the manuscripts found here show the development of Schwab's thinking on the teaching of science as enquiry and the structure of the disciplines. Others elaborate his idea of discussion and its educative function. Still others show Schwab turning to many areas that he never addressed in print, such as emotions, music, and information processing.

The plans for a book entitled Construction of Curriculums are also noteworthy. They follow the direction of Schwab's thinking in his articles entitled, "The Practical." He planned a sustained critique of then-current formulations of objectives and aimed toward "a new pattern for thinking about investigating curriculum and making decisions about curriculum alternatives."

The few records in the collection that document Schwab's work on the behalf of Jewish education at the Melton Research Center and elsewhere are notable because he kept this side of his professional life so well guarded that many of his colleagues knew very little about it. Included in the committee work subseries are a letter, memoranda and transcripts of conversations concerning the teaching of education in Israel, and together with teaching materials are notes outlining part of Schwab's involvement with Camp Ramah.

Related Resources

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Additional materials concerning Joseph J. Schwab and his work can be found in the following collections; Robert M. Hutchins Papers; Robert M. Hutchins and Associates, Oral History Interviews; Richard McKeon Papers; John U. Nef, Jr. Papers; John A. Simpson Papers; Ralph W. Tyler Papers; Committee on Social Thought Records; Dean of the College Records; Dean of Students Records; Harper College Center Rededication Records ("Back Talk from Abroad," November 19, 1973, reel tape); Oral History Collection (Interviews with Joseph Schwab, April 6-8, 1987, and Harold B. Dunkel, November 1987-June 1989); Presidents' Papers; Board of Trustees Minutes

Subject Headings

INVENTORY

Series I: Correspondence

Box 1   Folder 1

General, A-K, 1967-1986

Box 1   Folder 2

Genera, L-Z, 1967-1986

Box 1   Folder 3

Correspondence and contracts with publishers, 1967-1982

Box 1   Folder 4

Class taught at University of Judaism, Los Angeles, 1973

Box 1   Folder 5

Employment, 1966-1971

Box 1   Folder 6

Letters of reference, 1970-1977

Series II: Writings

Subseries 1: Offprints

Box 1   Folder 7

1939-1956

Box 1   Folder 8

Teaching by Discussion in the College Program, annotated copy, January 1949

Box 1   Folder 9

1957-1968

Box 1   Folder 10

1969-1980

Box 1   Folder 11

1983-1989, photocopies

  • Published articles
Box 2   Folder 1

"What Do Scientists Do? A Frame for an Ethology of Scientists," typescript, March 1959

Box 2   Folder 2

"The Practical 3; Translation into Curriculum," corrected drafts, 1973

Box 2   Folder 3

"On Reviving Liberal Education in the 1970s," draft and notes, 1975

Box 2   Folder 4

Papers, 1975-1977

  • "Freedom and Scope of Liberal Education," typescript, 1976
  • "Freedom and Scope of Liberal Education", Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, discussion paper, March 10, 1976
  • "Freedom and Scope of Liberal Education", corrected copy, March 10, 1976
  • "Freedom and Scope of Liberal Education", March 31, 1977
  • "Schema of Possible Liberal-General Curriculums," first draft, August 1975
Box 2   Folder 5

Papers, 1970s

  • "Liberal Arts for Now," undated
  • Letter from Decker [Walker?], undated
  • Untitled speech,circa 1970s
  • "Some Reasons Why Liberal Education is Complex," supplement to "Freedom and Scope of Liberal Education," drafts,circa 1976
Box 2   Folder 6

"Education and the State; Learning Community," Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, paper, corrected copy, December, 1975

Box 2   Folder 7

"Education and the State; Learning Community," short form

Box 2   Folder 8

"What Drives the Schools?" paper for National Institute of Education curriculum development task force, November 3, 1976; Letter from Jon Schaffarzick, task force chairman, November 23, 1976

Box 2   Folder 9

"Ends and Beginnings," corrected copies, 1979

Subseries 2: Speeches

Box 2   Folder 10

"Some Peer Group Platitudes and Why They Scare Me,"circa 1960s

Box 2   Folder 11

"Art and Career Education,"circa late 1970s

Box 2   Folder 12

Remarks at a Rockefeller Foundation conference, September 28, 1978

Box 2   Folder 13

"'Pure-Applied' as Rational Operators in Policy Debate," corrected draft, October 21, 1958

Box 2   Folder 13

Papers, 1959, undated

  • "A Least-Doctrinal Frame for Cross-Cultural Study of Personal Relations," corrected draft, 1959
  • "The Enquiring Curriculum I; Case History," corrected draft, undated
  • "Examining Knowledge as a Subject or Truth to Be Taught," notes, undated
Box 3   Folder 1

"The Behavioral Sciences and a Philosophy of Education," corrected draft,circa 1960

  • "The Behavioral Sciences and a Christian College," corrected draft,circa 1960
Box 3   Folder 2

Concerning possible investigations under the heading of enquiry, extended letter/note,circa early 1960s

Box 3   Folder 3

"Education and the Structure of the Disciplines, Part One and Part Two," corrected draft, June and September 1961

Box 3   Folder 4

"The Teaching of Science as Enquiry," part II, corrected text and table of contents,circa 1961

Box 3   Folder 5

"The Teaching of Science as Enquiry," part III, corrected text,circa 1961

Box 3   Folder 6

"Part I. The Revisionary Character of Science," introduction and chapter 1, corrected manuscript,circa early 1960s

Box 3   Folder 7

"Part I. The Revisionary Character of Science," chapter 1, revised copy,circa early 1960s

Box 3   Folder 8

"The Intellectual Influence of Science, Past and Future," February 9, 1962

Box 3   Folder 9

"Reading, Meaning, and Enquiry,"circa early 1960s

Box 3   Folder 10

Notes from talk about the present state of the teaching of English in U.S. high schools, January 30, 1968

Box 3   Folder 11

"Personal Agenda," notes,circa late 1960s

Box 3   Folder 12

"Unused Ideas,"circa 1970-1972

Box 3   Folder 13

"Six Differences in Search of a Distinction," notes,circa early 1970s

Box 3   Folder 14

"`Global' and `System'," Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, discussion paper, August 6, 1973

Box 3   Folder 15

Notes, ca 1970s

Box 3   Folder 16

"Personal Role," paper,circa mid 1970s

Box 4   Folder 1-2

Community; A Mission for the Schools, unpublished book typescript, August 20, 1975

Box 4   Folder 3

  • "Considered Dialogue," drafts of paper for Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions,circa mid 1970s
  • Copy of letter from Robert Hutchins, June 4, 1953
Box 4   Folder 4

  • "On Loss, Grief and Melancholia," notes,circa late 1970s
  • Letter to Knox [Hill?], July 2,circa late 1970s
  • Letter to Knox [Hill?], August 4,circa late 1970s
Box 4   Folder 5

Regarding information processing, notes for meeting with Ralph Tyler, January 29, 1980

Box 4   Folder 6

"Four Studies of the American High School," corrected drafts of book reviews,circa 1985 or 1986

Box 4   Folder 7

"Aims and Conduct of Discussion, Part III," corrected draft, undated

Box 4   Folder 8

"Curriculum Decision and Structure of the Disciplines," corrected draft and notes, undated

Box 4   Folder 9

"Music, Enquiry and Structure of the Disciplines," corrected draft, undated

  • Proposed curriculum book with Seymour Fox
Box 4   Folder 10

  • "First Draft of Book Proposal,"circa early 1970s
  • "Proposed Research,"circa early 1970s
  • "Projected Outline of Curriculum Book," corrected copy,circa early 1970s
  • "Projected Outline (2) of Curriculum Book,"circa early 1970s
  • "Background Work to the Project Planned,"circa 1971
  • "A Brief (and Confidential) Statement of My Interests," February 1972
Box 4   Folder 11

  • "Fox 7/24," notes
  • "Schwab Notes," undated
  • Transcripts of conversations with Seymour Fox, August 1970
Box 4   Folder 12

  • "Practical 3; Common Places," note,circa 1971-1972
  • "The Idea of Common Places," notes,circa 1971-1972
  • "Commonplaces," notes,circa 1971-1972
  • "Practical Legitimation of Curriculums," corrected copy, June 9, 1971
  • "Definition of the Problem," proposal, pages 1-2, author unidentified,circa 1971
  • "An Excerpt from Practical 2," corrected copy,circa 1971
  • "The Field of Curriculum and Instruction; A Proposal,"circa 1971
Box 5   Folder 1

Notes,circa 1971

Box 5   Folder 2

  • Memo to Mr. Bormuth, July 23, 1969
  • Proposal to Arthur Wise, October 7, 1970
  • Letter to Michael Connelly from David C. Thomas, May 11, 1971, copied to Schwab
  • Letter from John Gallum, May 19, 1971
  • Letter from Edwin M. Bridges, October 29, 1970
  • Letter to Elliot Eisner, May 7, 1973
  • Letter from Elliot Eisner, May 17, 1973
  • Letter from Decker Walker, May 11, 1973
  • Letter to Decker Walker, May 22, 1973
Box 5   Folder 3

  • Articles and background materials
  • Committee Work
Box 5   Folder 4

Biology curriculum committee proposal, Dec. 8, 1950

Box 5   Folder 5

  • "Dictation by Professor Schwab," corrected copy, August 14, 1967
  • Letter to Israel Sheffler from Seymour Fox, April 9, 1970
  • "Memorandum; The Establishment of an Educational Policy Center,"circa 1970
  • "Memorandum for the Establishment of an Experimental College,"circa 1970
  • "Tape No. 19 (5458-35)," transcription of conversation between Schwab and Fox,circa early 1970s
Box 5   Folder 6

  • "Memorandum; Summary of October 13 Meeting," Department of Education committee minutes, undated
  • "Introduction," regarding conceptions of general curriculum and instruction, notes/summary, undated
Box 5   Folder 7

  • Schwab-McKeon Committee Proposal for the Establishment of a New College of General Education at the University of California, Berkeley, preliminary draft, April 24, 1972
  • "Proposal for a New College," by Marc Cogan, copy,circa 1972
  • Writings by colleagues
Box 5   Folder 8

  • John R. Ginther, "A Conceptual Model for Analyzing Instruction," June 1964
  • Thomas W. Roby, "A Rhetoric of Questions for Teaching Philosophy," October 6, 1979
  • Letters from Richard G. Townsend, June 23, 1980, March 18, 1981
  • Richard G. Townsend, "One Way to Train for the Problems of Administrators," 1981
  • Joel Lehrfield, "The Liberal Education of Teachers; Four Models and a Deweyan Synthesis," dissertation abstract, undated
Box 5   Folder 9

  • Lawrence Kohlberg, "Moral Development and Identification," chapter of National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, typescript copy, 1963
  • Lawrence Kohlberg, "The Development of Children's Orientations Toward a Moral Order," 1963
Box 5   Folder 10

  • "The Schools' Responsibility for Moral Education," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1964
  • R.S. Peters, "The Concept of Character," 1967
  • "Chapter 1; A Preliminary Concept of Morality and the Purpose of the Research," undated
  • Harvey Wheeler, "Innovation in Higher Education," undated
  • Edward W. Weidner, "Environmental Education; Implications for Institutional Structure," April 1971
Box 6   Folder 1

Human Organization, 34 (Summer 1975), annotated copy

Series III: Teaching Materials

Box 6   Folder 1

Natural sciences

Box 6   Folder 2

Introductory General Course--Biological Sciences, comprehensive exams, 1935-1942

Box 6   Folder 3

Natural Sciences 1, comprehensive exams, 1949-1958

Box 6   Folder 4

Natural Sciences 2, comprehensive exams, 1949-1952

Box 6   Folder 5

Natural Sciences 2, comprehensive exams, 1953-1957

Box 6   Folder 6

Natural Sciences 3, syllabi, comprehensive exams, 1949-1956

Box 6   Folder 7

Organization, Methods, and Principles of Knowledge--Natural Sciences, exams, 1957

Box 6   Folder 8

Biology, final exams, quizzes, readings, paper topics, 1963-1972

Box 6   Folder 9

"Introduction to Science as Enquiry (Biology)," manuscripts, readings, notes,circa 1957

Box 7   Folder 1

"Philosophical Aspects of Biology," manuscript, readings, 1965

Box 7   Folder 2

"Philosophical Aspects of Biology," corrected manuscript, 1970

Box 7   Folder 3

"Philosophical Aspects of Biology," corrected manuscript, and notes, 1970

Box 7   Folder 4

  • Annotations of texts; Galen, On the Natural Faculties; Hippocrates, Selected Works; Huygens, Treatise on Light
  • Integrative courses
Box 7   Folder 5

Observation, Interpretation, and Integration, quarterly exams, readings, Steering Committee reports, 1942-1951

Box 7   Folder 6

Observation, Interpretation, and Integration, quarterly exams, readings, Steering Committee reports, History of the Organization of Sciences, Part I, readings, September 1943

Box 7   Folder 7

Observation, Interpretation, and Integration, quarterly exams, readings, Steering Committee reports, History of the Organization of Sciences, Part I, readings, Part II, November 1943

Box 8   Folder 1

Observation, Interpretation, and Integration, quarterly exams, readings, Steering Committee reports, History of the Organization of Sciences, Part I, readings, Principles in the Sciences, readings, March 1948

Box 8   Folder 2

Observation, Interpretation, and Integration, quarterly exams, readings, Steering Committee reports, notes,circa 1940s

Box 8   Folder 3

Observation, Interpretation, and Integration, quarterly exams, readings, Steering Committee reports, comprehensive exams, syllabi, 1944-1946

Box 8   Folder 4

Organization, Methods, and Principles of Knowledge, syllabi, quarter and final exams,, 1952-1956

Box 8   Folder 5

"Philosophy of Science," manuscript, undated

Box 8   Folder 6

Philosophy of Social Science, planning notes, readings, student paper, Spring 1968

Box 8   Folder 7

Colleagues' syllabi

Box 8   Folder 8

  • Education 300, midterm and final exams, 1958-1970
  • Education 311, master's comprehensive exam, 1971
Box 8   Folder 9

Education 300, syllabi and readings, undated

Box 8   Folder 10

Education 300, 311, 312, 313, student papers on freedom, 1970-1971

Box 8   Folder 11

Education 313, "Supplemental Readings," mimeographs, 1966

Box 8   Folder 12

"Commonplaces of the Soul," mimeographs of readings, notes,circa late 1960s or early 1970s

Box 8   Folder 13

  • Notes, 1971-1972
  • "A Draft Survey of Developments in Curriculum Theory, 1965-1970," by Dan Bitan
  • "Partial List of Readings for Education 332," undated
Box 9   Folder 1

Readings for class,circa 1970s

Box 9   Folder 2

Colleagues' syllabi, 1966-1971

Box 9   Folder 3

Camp Ramah papers, notes, discussion transcripts, manuscripts, 1961-1962

Box 9   Folder 4

  • Social Foundations of Education, Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974
  • Remarks to prospective teachers, undated
Box 9   Folder 5-6

Seminar on Information Processing, Institute for Research in Teaching, Michigan State University, notes, readings, 1976-1977

Box 9   Folder 7

"Freedom and Complacence in Education," colloquium at Claremont Graduate School, March 23, 1981

Box 9   Folder 8

Notes and readings on emotion, undated

Series IV: Miscellaneous

Box 9   Folder 9

Biographical materials

Box 9   Folder 10

Bibliographies and references

Box 9   Folder 11

  • National Academy of Education certificate, 1970
  • 1971 Guggenheim fellowship award letter
Box 10   Folder 1

Address lists,circa 1970-1980s

Box 10   Folder 2

"Distinguished Contribution to Curriculum Award," American Education Research Association, 1982

Box 10   Folder 3

Name plate, Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, 1958-1959

Box 10   Folder 4

Photographs of unidentified colleagues (23)

Series IV: Audio Tapes

Box 11   Tape 1

"Fox-France," fragment of a conversation between J.J. Schwab and unidentified conversants, side B, undated

Box 11   Tape 2

"Stanford," regarding "The Practical," April 1973

Box 11   Tape 3

"Memorial Service for Rexford G. Tugwell," Harry Ashmore, Leon Keyserling, C. Herman Pritchett, Joseph Schwab, and William Gorman, July 25, 1979

Box 11   Tape 4

"Morning Session," seminar concerning moral development [at University of Chicago?], December 28, 1973

Box 11   Tape 5

"Joseph Schwab--English Education and the Open University," Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, October 31, 1975

Box 11   Tape 6-16

"Genesis," "A Rose for Emily," "Selections from Aristotle," "Analysis of Interaction Techniques," "Aristotle," "Harvey," seminar at Institute for Research on Teaching, Michigan State University, October 5-15, 1976

  • "Analysis of Interaction Techniques" has been reformatted for access.
Box 11   Tape 17

"Seminar Planning," Lee Shulman, August 1977

  • This item has been reformatted for access.
Box 12   Tape 1-9

"Schwab Seminar," concerning curriculum, Institute for Research in Teaching, Michigan State University, October 3-21, 1977

Box 12   Tape 10-12

Milton Mayer, "A World without Government," Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, April 6, 1983

Box 12   Tape 13-15

Mortimer Adler, "Public Schooling in America; An Argument for Radical Reform, May 9, 1983

Box 12   Tape 16

"River," letter to J.J. Schwab regarding music, March 4, 1986

  • This item has been reformatted for access.
Box 12   Tape 17

"Synod staff training," psychoanalysis therapy session, patient and therapist unidentified, November 29, 1983

  • This item has been reformatted for access.
Box 13   Tape 1-7

Unidentified "Stenorette" dictation reel tapes

Box 13   Tape 8

"Jencks, Schools and What They Ought To Do," lecture by Joseph Schwab, 29 July 1977

Box 13   Tape 9

"The Classroom as Learning Community," lecture by Joseph Schwab, undated