Presents an annotated bibliography of works related to the subject of computers and the humanities. Groups items into textbooks and overviews; introductions; human and computer languages; literary and linguistic analysis; artificial intelligence and robotics; social issue debates; computers' image in fiction; anthologies; writing and the…

This article describes a venture which resulted in publication of an anthology of poems and illustrations by elementary-level gifted students. The book was copyrighted, printed, and sold by a legal publishing company run by students as a professional enterprise. Guidelines for organizing such projects are offered, and experiences from this and…

This anthology of literature from the many American cultures as well as cultures around the world is intended for use in today's college composition and introductory literature courses. Offering a blend of classic favorites and selections from other cultures, the anthology contains some 300 stories, poems, and plays from the six habitable…

This paper reviews Native American materials on current Canadian textbook lists and discusses a new anthology of works by and about Canada Natives. The "Circle Program," a kit of story books and English-as-a-Second-Language instructional materials for Native children in grades K-3, is recommended for children of all cultures and…

Since the questions included in literature anthologies play a key role in the high school English class questioning process, a study examined the questions in four eleventh-grade American literature anthologies. The anthologies met the following criteria: textbooks (1) contained selections organized chronologically, (2) were major compilations in…

The 13 papers collected in this volume illustrate the issues that currently interest educational researchers in Ireland. Seamus O. Suilleabhain explores education as a profession and the concept of professional identity. Papers written by Jim McKernan, Diarmuid Leonard, and Luke Murtagh examine curriculum research and development as a professional…

The National Rehabilitation Association annually sponsors the Switzer Memorial Seminar, a program designed to explore, in-depth, a particular topic of interest to the rehabilitatin of handicapped individuals. Participants are selected for their achievements and involvement in the area to be studied. This monograph of the proceedings of the Fourth…

Each paper in this monograph provides a discussion of and/or proposes a possible solution to a critical issue which must be faced by student affairs workers during the 1980's. The first article examines the legitimacy of student affairs as a professional entity within the field of higher education. The second article discusses the rationale of…

Teaching poetry and fiction writing is most effective in classes where the student population is heterogeneous. The experienced writers help the beginners improve and the beginners provide a critical audience for the more advanced writers. Diversity in age and worldliness challenges the creative writing instructor to provide the opportunity for…

The papers in this book were prepared for research workshops on equal employment opportunity that were held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1974. Economists, psychologists and sociologists were invited to assess the scope of research to date on employment discrimination. Their paper topics include: (1) economic theories of…

An anthology of readings in the media correlates chapter-by-chapter to the authors' textbook, "The Media Works." Fifteen chapters cover the study of newspapers, magazines, comics, popular music, television, movies, and advertising. The authors included represent varied perspectives on the media. The selections were chosen with the help of a…

The "new" teaching of literature which is enjoyable and relevant to the lives of students, and which reflects the excitement of the teacher, should (1) make less use of anthologies, more use of paperbacks; (2) involve less common reading, more individualized reading; (3) use less adult literature, more good adolescent literature; (4) consist of…

This book seeks to raise some of the critical theoretical issues involved in the study of American negro folklore in all its major forms. Along with the presentation of texts, the concern here is for the meaning and significance of the folklore and its interpretations as expressed by a variety of authors. The selections are divided into eight…

The 13 stories in this collection were selected on the basis of their readability for beginning students of Oriya. This collection and its companion glossary form the first part of the series of materials designed to follow "Basic Lessons in Oriya" and "The Oriya Writing System." The order in which the stories are presented is…

This annotated bibliography lists 820 literary works by black African authors south of the Sahara writing in English and in French. Reference material, critical works, and anthologies (many by non-Africans) are also included. The bibliography--excluding reference and critical works and anthologies--is divided into two sections. "Writings in…