THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE AN AWARENESS BASE CONCERNING THE KINDS OF PROGRAMS WHICH UTILIZE HUMANITIES CONTENT IN PREPARING ADMINISTRATORS. A SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE KINDS OF RATIONALES COMMONLY USED TO SUPPORT THE USE OF HUMANITIES CONTENT IN TRAINING ADMINISTRATORS FOCUSES UPON (1) GENERAL LIBERALIZATION, (2) VALUES AND PURPOSE-DEFINING…

THIS STUDY TESTS THE HYPOTHESIS THAT COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR BEHAVIOR CAN BE IDENTIFIED AND MEASURED BY THE USE OF A GRAPHIC RATING SCALE WHEN THE RATER RESPONDS TO COMMON BIPOLAR ADJECTIVES. THE BEHAVIORS WILL YIELD, WHEN SUBJECTED TO FACTOR ANALYSIS, CLUSTERS OF TRAITS WHICH WOULD IDENTIFY SUBGROUPS OF COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS. STUDENT RATINGS OF COLLEGE…

This annotated bibliography lists more than 170 items and is part of a continuing attempt to inform English teachers about recent developments in education. Entries are listed in six categories: bilingual and bidialectical studies; language and verbal learning; literature, humanities, and media; teacher education; testing and evaluation; and…

The thesis explores the development of Paul Klee, a German artist, in terms of his educational and artistic philosophies. The research was limited to his teaching years at the Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Academy, 1921 through 1933. Klee's own writings served as primary sources, and other sources included his son, a close friend, and Bauhaus…

This manual is intended for use by adopters or adapters of a media-oriented arts and humanities program designed to train teachers in the techniques of humanizing the general curriculum. It contains lesson plans for grade nine that are geared to the curriculum areas of language arts, science, and social studies. The art areas covered in the plans…

The six papers in this journal issue were presented at the 1977 spring meeting of the Missouri Association of Teachers of English, the theme of which was "Tradition and the Popular Arts." The papers deal with suggestions for texts and equipment for a film-production course; formal writing in the language arts curriculum; the teaching of a…

The 48 papers in this conference report are concerned with the use of computers in undergraduate curricula in various educational settings. Articles are split into general topic headings, including Computer Augmented Video Education (CAVE), Mathematics, Simulation, Testing, Humanities, Social Science, Computer Assisted Instruction/Computer Managed…

This chronological summary describes the activities of the group that is developing CABOODLE, a children's educational television series in the arts and humanities, for the year 1978. Program areas reviewed include project personnel, project administration, curriculum design, physical facilities, materials and script development, research and…

A SERIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT. THE SCOPE OF THE LIST INCLUDES GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES FROM LATIN AMERICA, AS WELL AS BOOKS FROM SPAIN, WHICH ARE PRINCIPALLY IN THE FIELDS OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, ESPECIALLY LITERATURE AND HISTORY. A LIST OF SOURCES FOR THE PURCHASE OF BOOKS FROM LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN IS ALSO…

"Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery" is the student book for the project in philosophical thinking described in SO 008 123-126. It offers a model of dialogue -- both of children with one another and of children with adults. The story is set among a classroom of children who begin to understand the basics of logical reasoning when Harry, who…

This paper examines several theoretical and empirical issues, together with new directions in thinking, which have emerged as the result of significant research done on the PLATO IV computer and with the advancement of the language pedogogical theory. CAI previously encountered three basic problems: (1) the cost of hardware, (2) the lack of…

The liberal arts have always been considered the purest form of education and its proponents have vigorously defended it against the encroachments of "practicalism." But if we can legitimately claim that liberal arts are truly an education for life, we must remind ourselves that work is the most significant ingredient of our post-educational…

In fall 1975, a project was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the PBS television course "Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama" in terms of: (1) the attitude toward and utilization of course materials and prescribed format by participating institutions (153 two-year, and 122 four-year) nationwide; (2) the response to the…

This report summarizes the work of the Yale Music Curriculum Project, the purpose of which was to develop an academically respectable music literature course to stimulate the listening capacity of the secondary school student through his recognition and analysis of musical genre form. Included are (1) a rationale summarizing the need for such a…

Several creative classroom activities related to literary studies are discussed in this article. The plays of Plautus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Giraudoux, O'Neill, Anouilh, T. S. Eliot, and Goethe are read as the basis for comparative studies. The author discusses the problem of reading Latin plays in translation and comments…