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Seow Yongzhi – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
Humanities education in Singapore at the secondary level emphasises the inquiry-based learning pedagogical approach to engage students, inculcate critical thinking skills, and achieve the necessary knowledge and skills outcomes stipulated by the national curriculum. Inquiry-based learning is structured by a Humanities inquiry cycle involving four…
Descriptors: Debate, Teaching Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Humanities Instruction
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Goodwin, Karl A.; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2021
Engagement with primary sources is a key feature of arts and humanities subjects, particularly classics and ancient history. Recent instructional trends emphasise integrating skills with content, particularly in the first year of higher education. We investigate how successfully first-year university students used a variety of sources in an…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Primary Sources, Humanities Instruction, College Freshmen
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Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2023
Flipped classroom (FC) is a "blended" instructional approach that requires students to complete pre-lecture individual learning tasks in preparation for participating in related in-lecture peer learning activities. One of the critical problems of FC has been students' lack of motivation to complete the assigned online pre-lecture tasks…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Student Motivation, Assignments, Video Technology
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Haider, Ahmad S.; Al-Salman, Saleh – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The study aims to probe into university instructors' reactions to adopting the remote online learning model brought by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study investigates the instructors' perspectives, in the humanities and science classes, on the effectiveness of the emergency remote teaching (ERT) compared to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Siegner, Alana; Stapert, Natalie – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Climate change as an instructional topic in K-12 schools is most frequently taught in the science classroom. However, it is a human issue requiring social as well as technological and scientific solutions. This study analyzes and evaluates a climate change curriculum implemented via an integrated social studies and language arts framework in a…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Humanities Instruction, Curriculum Implementation
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Green, Harriett E.; Lamprin, Patricia – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers' needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for "Emblematica Online," a research digital library that provides digitized…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Archives, Use Studies, Case Studies
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Kosik, Russell Oliver; Huang, Lei; Cai, Qiaoling; Xu, Guo-Tong; Zhao, Xudong; Guo, Li; Tang, Wen; Chen, Qi; Fan, Angela Pei-Chen – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
Today's doctor is as much a humanist as a scientist. Medical schools have responded to this change by introducing a variety of courses, most notably those concerning the humanities and ethics. Thus far, no one has examined the extent of use of these subjects in Chinese medical schools. The goal of this study is to determine how many and in what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Humanities Instruction, Ethical Instruction
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Harde, Roxanne – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
This essay presents the adaptation of Team-Based Learning (TBL) for a course that uses ecofeminist approaches to environmental literature. Developed originally for use in professional programs, TBL's cornerstones are permanent learning teams, preparation, application, and timely assessment (Michaelsen, Knight, & Fink, 2002). I wanted my…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Humanities Instruction, Case Studies
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Cory, Suzanne N.; Hernandez, Abigail R. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
This study measures moral disengagement of undergraduate business and humanities students with a focus on differences in moral disengagement between genders. Students completed a survey that consisted of 32 statements and were asked to determine the degree to which they agreed with each, using a 7-point Likert scale. The questions measured moral…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Humanities, Business Administration Education, Ethics
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Green, Harriett E.; Courtney, Angela – College & Research Libraries, 2015
This paper presents an analysis of how humanities scholars use digital collections in their research and the ways in which digital collections could be enhanced for scholarly use. The authors surveyed and interviewed humanities faculty from twelve research universities about their research practices with digital collections and present analysis of…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Scholarship
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Office of Federal Relations and Instructional Services. – 1986
Responding to the Colorado State Board of Education's request for recommendations concerning the need to improve humanities instruction and its relationship to the development of higher-order thinking skills, this task force report specifies a scope for humanities teaching; defines higher-order thinking skills as the ability to judge information,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Humanities
Sacramento City Coll., CA. – 1989
A collection of reports on 12 classroom-based research projects is presented, representing the individual and collaborative efforts of faculty, advisors, and program coordinators from Sacramento City College and Irvine Valley College, California. First, a final report is presented on the Cooperative Classroom-Based Research project, including…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, Humanities Instruction
Blair, R. Clifford; Fitzgerald, Morgan E. – 1974
The 44 questions of the Largo Junior School Humanities Attitude Scale attempt to measure student attitudes about the study of humanities. The scale is composed of three subscales which measure whether students view the humanities class as an enjoyable experience, the study of humanities as being worthwhile, and the humanities of the past as being…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Course Evaluation, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Research
Fay, Josephine M. – 1982
This study examines the status of and influences on the humanities in community service programs at eight community colleges in Southern California and offers recommendations for improving this position. After introductory material and a review of the literature on humanities and community services in the two-year college, Chapter II presents the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Community Services
Case, Chester H. – 1983
This report discusses the structures, procedures, outcomes, and evaluation of the Tier One Project (TOP), which was conducted at Los Medanos College from July 1981 to February 1983 to develop general education courses embodying humanities concerns. Background to the project is provided first, delineating TOP's objectives of examining general…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
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