Offers advice to English department chairs on the behavior of academic departments. (AEA)

Presented is the thesis that the solution of environmental problems must deal with the cause as well as the symptoms. It is asserted that treatment of the cause will involve the reshaping of man's understanding of himself and his need for control and power through environmental education. (SL)

A report is made on the Conference on Alternative Careers for Doctoral Degree Recipients in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts, held in October 1975, sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan. (RM)

This report reviews the requirements for infrastructure for research in the arts and humanities in United Kingdom universities and colleges. It assesses the extent of remedial investment required and sets out the conditions needed to manage this research infrastructure on a sustainable basis. The requirements for arts and humanities research that…

As the potency of science and its impact upon society grow, the need for a humanistic perspective on science education becomes ever more urgent. Although there is not a consensus about a humanistic conception of science education, this monograph presents a normative conception of humanistic science education, which places primacy on the notion of…

If you wish to start an undergraduate professional and technical writing (PTW) program at a small liberal arts college, you will find good arguments for your project in the educational writings of Sir Francis Bacon. This paper gathers some of Bacon's educational ideas from various writings and applies them to the five stages of undergraduate…

This annual volume of the Community College Humanities Review (CCHR) presents a wide range of articles dealing with humanities--from Lloyd Kaplan's attempts to set the record straight (by presenting a more accurate appraisal and a truer perspective of Dave Brubeck's outstanding contribution to the course of jazz) to Walter Krieglstein's…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the spread of astronomy contents throughout the Spanish pre-university educative system as stated in the curricula established by law. Possible contents of Astronomy were first classified in groups and then looked after in the official curricula of the different subjects throughout the Spanish…

The experience of an extended urban field study project proved an effective method for stimulating students' appetites for discovery and for didactic learning as well. (Author/KM)

The current interest in relevance in education has encouraged many deletions in curriculum. The author declares that every subject is relevant to some person's life; therefore, there are no irrelevant subjects. (PG)

Details a proposed method for research planning, innovation, and technical education to help overcome Africa's tardiness in developing a modern, scientific-technical base for its national economies. Adopting appropriate systems from technically developed countries is one solution; adopting a system specific to national needs, another. (EB)

A program for freshmen designed to release all the facets and forces in a work, and all the student's capacities to respond and learn is described by a former professor at Notre Dame. (Editor)

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)

Author examines the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung with his students and challenges them to objectively evaluate the work. (RK)