Explains how history lessons focusing on the individual in various situations can help make distant events and peoples more important and believable, and dispel stereotyped images. (CK)

Advocates using folklore to help students build humanities skills and develop global perspectives. Provides an outline of topics and activities which should be an integral part of a folklore study and suggests using the humanities series developed by "Intercom" (see SO 506 865-871) as a curriculum guide. (Author/DB)

Describes goals and educational objectives for the global perspectives project and its humanities component. Enumerates four basic concepts and three ideas for basic skills development. Presents a sample social studies curriculum for K-12, expanding student horizons from a study of self to a study of the world. (CK)

Presents people's experiences and perceptions of events in four lesson plans. Includes personal accounts of people moving westward, one family's decision to migrate to America, Lucy Stone and women's rights, and Langston Hughes' high school days. (CK)