I trace the beginnings of my journey in both P4C and p4c2 to my first encounter with Matthew Lipman, in his "office" which was, in fact, a caravan parked on the campus of Montclair State College. That was in August 1982, just prior to my oral examination at Oxford, in which I managed to persuade the examiners that my thesis in the…

At 30 sites across the United States and Puerto Rico, the Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities provides economically and socially marginalized adults with a free college course in the humanities. The experience of non-traditional adult students, particularly adults of color, is often missing from academic literature, exacerbating past…

In recent decades, there has been an increase in literacy education research attending to curriculum inclusive of sexual and gender diversity in secondary classrooms. Although valuable, most of this research has focused on the ideational and representational qualities of curriculum and thus has overlooked the significance of composition and genre.…

This article reflects on the implications for practitioners, researchers and policy-makers of the future of the humanities in primary schools in the light of the challenges facing future generations. There is wide divergence in the four jurisdictions of the UK. The humanities are perceived as important, in principle, though curriculum frameworks…

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 28-30, 1968).

Article developed from a talk presented to the Aspen Film Conference held at Snowmass-at-Aspen in July, 1968.

Summary of results of a questionnaire to gather information on computer courses intended primarily or incidentally for humanities students. (MB)

Examined is the Humanities Program at St. Anselm College, a two-year program of readings and lectures ordered chronologically from ancient to contemporary times--from the age of Classical Greek thought and the Old Testament to the twentieth century. The first year of the Humanities Program is organized in eight units on general modes of…

The place of the humanities within the curriculum structure of higher education is discussed. (CK)

Based on thirteen examples of humanities programs across the U.S., this book attempts to address the question of what an effective core humanities curriculum should include. It looks at issues such as course requirements, standardized versus more flexible programs of learning, and the question of how responsive such programs should be to current…

It is a pitifully narrow humanities curriculum which focuses on great Western art, as many college humanities sequences have done. Any true consideration of the humanities needs to view mankind in relation to the cosmos. In essence, all one's education needs to be humanistically oriented in the broadest possible sense. (Author/SJL)

Project Heroes is a humanities program for learning disabled children which is designed to maximize four principles--appreciation of process, acknowledgement of independence, development of a sense of worth, and skill acquisition. (SB)

One of a series of 11 arts and humanities career exploration resource guides for grade 7-12 teachers, counselors, and students, this annotated bibliography describes curriculum materials being used in public schools, particularly on the job preparation level. Materials available from commercial publishers and those developed by educational…

With the conviction that a student needs purpose in life and that the humanities as a discipline can contribute most significantly to this achievement, research to determine the extent of higher education programs in this country was undertaken, with the encouraging conclusion that humanities are offered in some form in all institutions surveyed.…

Greater academic freedom for college professors in the humanities field would result in a type of classroom instruction that would be relevant to the needs of modern society. (CK)