Aristotle launched Western knowledge on a trajectory toward disciplinarity that continues to this day. But is the knowledge management project that began with Aristotle adequate for the age of Google? Perhaps an undisciplined discourse more evocative of Plato can help us constitute new, more relevant inter- and transdisciplinary forms of…

Administrators hate to be called bureaucrats. They prefer to be seen as academic leaders. Leaders articulate priorities and values, serve as exemplars, and represent an institution to both others and itself. Today, more than ever, the humanities and the arts need academic leaders at every level of the university to give them voice, to avow their…

In this article, we examine the invocation of Socrates as the exemplar for Earl Shorris' Clemente Course in the Humanities program. Our aim is to temper Shorris' claim that the Socratic method and the humanities are tools for political liberation. Though they may have this consequence, they are not exhausted by this consequence. Rather, this…

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)

This essay and bibliography reports on references pertinent to the theme of humanities instruction in the community college. Although the majority of the sources are in the ERIC collection, also cited are books and articles considered to be basic general references on humanities programs and courses in community colleges. (Author/NHM)

Adapted from a talk originally delivered to the Western Association of Graduate Schools (Denver, March 4, 1968) as one of a series on "Academic Disciplines and Professional Schools View the Seventies.

Responding to a widely expressed discontent about college teaching shared by students, faculty and administrators, representatives of national professional and higher educational associations formed a committee to study means of revitalizing and reorienting instruction. Each contributor in Volume I, selected for his outstanding teaching skills in…

This report describes and evaluates the Humanities Cluster College (HCC), a part of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green University. This interdisciplinary program is described according to: rationale, specific aims, detailed description of the program, subjective evaluation, evaluative research, and recommendations. Related…

Efforts of humanists have been extended to small towns to try to utilize more fully the resources of large universities. (GB)

Prospects for the more decisive implementation of the New Way of the humanities lie with the principal. Schools will become humanized as principals inculcate certain attitudes in teachers which will by proximity be translated into the learning situation; i.e., students cannot be expected to read, study, and think if teachers have reeducated…

In this study unit the image of the labyrinth is enlarged upon to assist students in understanding some of the complexities of life; through mythology, paintings, music, and literature the teacher can motivate students to interpret this persistent expression of man's inner world. (Author/JB)

The humanists of the Renaissance developed a philosophy of education which stated that education must always be connected with the active life, must lead to the development of humanity, must be for the benefit of the community. (JB)

Article discusses the place of liberal arts in the university. (RK)

Maintains that humanities instruction should strive to prepare students "to judge, to discriminate, to make relationships and should not attempt to convey "a body of knowledge; a paper presented at annual Conference on English Education (7th, Syracuse, N.Y., March 28, 1969). (Author/RD)

Defines the scope of the humanities. Discusses the role of the humanities in community colleges and the responsibility of humanities instructors to strengthen the discipline. Itemizes the qualities of humanists and identifies them as stereotypically feminine. Discusses the implications for male and female instructors. (DD)