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Putwain, Dave; Whiteley, Helen; Caddick, Lee – Educational Research, 2011
Background: It has been claimed that thematic or integrated approaches to curriculum delivery offer a range of advantages over subject-based modes of delivery including improved pupil motivation. Purpose: This study put claims regarding pupil motivation to the test, using the achievement goals framework. This contemporary approach to understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness
Rainer, John; Lewis, Martin – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School" provides a rationale for the curricular centrality of drama together with rich and detailed examples of cross-phase thematic projects which are drama-led, but which promote learning across a wide range of curriculum areas, from the humanities and other arts, to English and literacy, science and PSHE.…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Empathy, Educational Strategies, Citizenship
Holbrook, Hilary Taylor – 1986
Intended for administrators and policy makers, as well as teachers, this digest examines the current state of humanities instruction and the evolving place of humanities in the high school English classroom. The digest first explores differing definitions of the humanities, and discusses reasons for the decline in emphasis on humanities…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Instruction, Humanities, Humanities Instruction
Robinson, Mary Virginia, Sister – 1973
The purpose of this study was threefold: to emphasize a need for humanities education in the secondary school today; to explore various types of programs in humanities education in respect to method of approach, content, teaching, and achievment; and to propose guidelines which may aid others in undertaking or implementing a humanities program in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Doctoral Dissertations, Humanities, Humanities Instruction
DeSousa, Albert M. – 1973
Humanities can be simplistically defined as a program, as a set of related or unrelated activities, or as human and humane interaction. The following assumptions are important in establishing humanities programs in the elementary school: programs must be reality oriented; there should be an emphasis on direct participation for the student;…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education
Miller, Bernard S. – 1972
The humanities curriculum described in this book is designed as a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to learning. Chapter 1 discusses a definition of the humanities; the segmented curriculum; student expectations; teacher training and the importance of the faculty; the humanities and the sciences; organizing a humanities program; advantages of…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development, English, Evaluation Methods
Silverman, Jay – 1973
This study begins with an effort to place the secondary school humanities education movement in the context of the broad concern of educators with curriculum reform during the past decade. An examination of the instruction programs in secondary school humanities education revealed four major variants: Aesthetic Education, Cultural Epoch, Great…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Ballard, Lizabeth B.; Anderson, Ray – 1994
This brief descriptive guide is a pilot social studies- language arts course at Haviland High School, Haviland, Kansas. The two-hour course is team taught and seeks to combine the junior year of U.S. history and the junior year of English in an interdisciplinary class. The project began in 1990 with the school's designation as a pilot school for…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Curriculum Design, English Curriculum, Fused Curriculum
Selwyn, Douglas – 1995
This bulletin is designed to help teachers integrate the arts and humanities into the social studies curriculum. The volume includes three chapters. Chapter 1, "Learning Through the Arts," features the following sections: (1) "Integration"; (2) "Assessment"; and (3) "References and For Further Reading." Chapter 2, "Using Theater in the Classroom,"…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Culture, Fine Arts, Fused Curriculum
Shattuck, Roger – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1971
Paper delivered at the ADFL Summer Seminar for Chairmen, June 21-25, 1971 at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. (DS)
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Humanities, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Richardson, Arleigh D. – 1973
The National Humanities Faculty (NHF) was established by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1968 to improve the teaching of the humanities in the American schools. To fulfill its obligation, the NHF conducts a program in which humanists--university professors, creative artists, and others--work with selected schools who have applied for…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Consultants, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Stanton School District, Wilmington, DE. – 1971
As a result of the evaluation that many English and social studies courses inadequately prepare students for today's world, a humanities program was designed to deal with real social, ethical, and educational problems while retaining the essential skills and ideas of the traditional subjects. This syllabus, the first of three sequential humanities…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Guides, Evolution
Chamberlin, Charles – Elements: Translating Theory Into Practice, 1978
Illustrates one way that history, as part of the humanities, can help students to develop personal and social values. (RK)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Friedman, Mickey – American Education, 1980
The NEXA program at San Francisco State University seeks to span the gulf between the humanities and the sciences by offering interdisciplinary team-taught courses on concepts and issues in the liberal arts. Providing a rigorous and challenging curriculum for highly motivated students, the program is gradually finding a niche within the confines…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Experimental Curriculum, Fused Curriculum
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Kieffer, Jarold A. – Liberal Education, 1975
As a substitute for what he sees as confusion of separate introductory courses in the different areas, the author proposes an interdisciplinary social science-humanities course organized around basic questions about man's individual and group needs and behaviors, group relationships and processes, value systems, and techniques for creating and…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Course Content, Course Objectives, Course Organization
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