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Boyce-Tillman, June – Music Educators Journal, 2013
Since early times, human beings have searched for spiritual experiences that provide connections to their hearts and souls. People sometimes find these connections through experiencing music--perhaps the last remaining ubiquitous spiritual experience in Western culture. And yet, material values rule our world, even in music education. Is music in…
Descriptors: Music Education, Mythology, Greek Civilization, Western Civilization
Cyrino, Monica S. – 1995
A team-taught course on Greek civilization was designed to reach a broad audience of majors and non-majors at the University of New Mexico and has changed in response to faculty and student responses. The first version of the course covered Greek and Roman culture and presented a variety of guest lecturers, but student comments indicated that too…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Course Descriptions, Greek Civilization, Greek Literature
Schilling, Robert – Didaskalos, 1963
A review of the status of classical studies in France reveals a serious decline in enrollment in Greek classes. The essential problem in curricular planning is seen as the need to find an equilibrium between culture and technology since Latin is seen as the key to the culture of the Western world. Criticism of teaching methods and theory is…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Cultural Background, Cultural Education, Educational Problems