Defines humanities and pleads for greater support for these disciplines. A national lobby is proposed to improve education and professional outlook for humanities teachers and greater emphasis and financial support for improvement of humanistic teaching at lower levels. Taxes on low-grade movies and television are suggested to provide funds. (CHK)

Only a positive personal commitment by the teacher can open the door to children's appreciation of poetry. (Author)

A federal grant to the Missouri State Committee for the Humanities began a program aimed at emphasizing the human quality of existence, the beliefs and values by which man lends meaning to his daily existence. It has grown, through the county extension offices, to statewide proportions, providing curriculum guides, model programs, and improving…

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

Imaginative account of an encounter between a modern English teacher and John Dewey, applying Dewey's insights to contemporary issues in English education. (DF)

Discusses the relation between professional training and a humanities education. Notes that the humanities in general education and English studies in particular face pressure, in the wake of poststructuralism, to address extra-academic audiences--particularly working-class, working-poor, and lower-middle-class families--with a revised…

The "New Humanities" has called for new ways of engaging with Humanities texts; the European Science Foundation is just one major research funder to demand that the Humanities contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations. Meanwhile, traditionally trained disciplinary academics have resisted bringing traditional texts into…

Many students have been taught to analyze, to memorize, and perhaps to synthesize, but few have been encouraged to be creative--a necessity for being truly satisfied, successful, and happy with one's life. To develop creativity, education should focus on an updated version of the 3 R's: Rationale, Reason, and Resourcefulness. Rationale involves…

Author discussed some ways in which the Federal government has moved in the past and may move in the future to meet some of the needs of humanities researchers, unfamiliar with computer hardware and its uses. (Author/RK)

Congruence between content and educational methodology requires an experiential, inductive approach by teachers of the arts and humanities, based on the thesis that only through experience can one form a true impression of an art. (JH)

SINCE MOST OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM IS DEVOTED TO SPECIALIZED DISCIPLINES, HUMANITIES COURSES PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CREATING IN STUDENTS AN AWARENESS OF THE UNITY WHICH EXISTS AMONG PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND THE ARTS. INTENSIVE STUDY AND CLASS DISCUSSION OF INDIVIDUAL WORKS BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE, HOWEVER, WHEN TOO MANY BOOKS ARE CROWDED INTO A…

The newsletter provides useful information for the introduction of philosophy as an organized high school course. Through the newsletter, the Center disseminates information about its operation, and further, facilitates the exchange of information about other places engaged in basic research experimentation about curriculum, methods, and…

This study investigated the status of the humanities in the Colorado public school curriculum. Four types of humanities programs were studied: (1) courses specifically designed as humanities courses, (2) humanities-type courses incorporated into a regular single subject course, (3) specially selected humanities experiences designed for a…