This study examined the learning trajectory of five US humanities teachers when navigating learning to teach the difficult history of school desegregation within a context of a six-month inquiry-based professional development. The research questions were: What do teachers frame as problems when teaching difficult histories? How do they…

In the past few decades the core of bibliometrics has predominantly been "scientometric" in nature, due to the first commercial citation index having been created for scientific journals and articles. The production of citation indexes for books implies that proper education related to their use is now becoming critical. A new breed of…

A federal grant to the Missouri State Committee for the Humanities began a program aimed at emphasizing the human quality of existence, the beliefs and values by which man lends meaning to his daily existence. It has grown, through the county extension offices, to statewide proportions, providing curriculum guides, model programs, and improving…

This article discusses the planning and implementation of a high school course to (1) help students find their identities through the arts, and (2) help teenagers cope with today's society by looking at life's basic questions and examining answers provided by the world's great philosophers. (RC)

Schools have devised an assortment of "change of pace" activities to retread tired routines and bolster drooping spirits. One such program is described by a member of the English department at Marple Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. (Editor)

The College Entrance Examination Board's advanced placement course in European history is described in this pamphlet. Briefly discussed are suggested instructional materials, the scope and content of the course, and the desired achievements of the students. Sample multiple-choice and essay questions from the examination for the course are…

In "The Prince" Machiavelli offers a cool, practical and unsentimental look at what man is. He offers hands-on instruction for achieving stability and a well-run principality. Whether or not Shakespeare read "The Prince," which was not translated until years after the playwright's death, the book's principles were generally in…

This report of the National Conference on the Humanities includes summaries, with excerpts, of four major addresses--(1) "What the Humanities Programs in Schools Ought to Be" by Harry S. Broudy, (2) "Problems and Advantages of the Culture-Epoch Approach to the Humanities" by John R. Dahl, (3) "Humanities: A Great Ideas Course" by Morris Saxe, and…

This study explores the problems of selection, developing, teaching, and evaluating a course that relates music, art, and literature. The specific unit presented deals with relating poetry to music and to painting with Yevgeny Yevtushenko as the central figure. The seven parts of the unit draw on Yevtushenko's poetry and life to develop the…

Considers some documentary evidence for the view that the U.S. is on the educational and cultural decline and contends that the principal symptoms of weakness have been with us for decades. Lays the responsibility for many of the problems in the present crisis in humanities education on the humanities faculty. (SED)

A creative course offered to adults in evening sessions successfully combined poetry, art, dance, film, and music in developing insights into human values, self-awareness, and interrelationships. (JB)

Describes a year-long core humanities course at Washington State University in which freshman composition is linked to a world civilizations context. Explains how the linked course aims to prepare students for the writing and thinking tasks they need for other courses in college and after they graduate. (MG)

This article illustrated ways in which language itself contributes to man's understanding of himself. (Editor/RK)