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Clark, Marlene – Composition Forum, 2007
Founded 25 years ago, The City College Center for Worker Education (CWE) recently became a division of the college's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. CWE, as it is known, caters to working adult students. All classes are held one evening per week for three hours and 20 minutes, and all…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Labor Education, Colleges, College Transfer Students
Goldberg, Mark F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
In 1973, the founding administrator of a Long Island high school proposed adoption of a student advisory system, team teaching in the humanities, and no academic department chairs. Convinced that having chairs diminished teachers' stature, this principal successfully encouraged teachers to work together to develop curriculum, prepare budgets, hire…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Department Heads, High Schools, Humanities
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Burns, Margaret – Social Science Record, 1976
As an alternative program for problem students a group of teachers developed a flexible non-graded (7th and 8th grade combined) humanities program with special emphasis on basic reading skill development. The goals of the program and a description of the eight five-week units of study are provided. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Humanities Instruction
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Ware, Linda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper describes early efforts underway at City College, New York, to introduce a disability studies content into an otherwise traditional special education programme. The paper draws on previously funded research projects that merged humanities-based disability studies in education, prior teaching experiences and excerpts from the writing of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Humanities, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
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Hobbs, Renee – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Media literacy education is being explored by scholars in many different fields (including education, literature, media studies, psychology, and public health), but there is less evidence of implementations occurring in K-12 settings. With more than 1.3 million teachers in U.S. public schools, it is impossible to estimate the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Health Education, Media Literacy, Teaching Methods, Educational Research