Describes classroom experiences while teaching a unit on Matisse to gifted students. (EL)

Presents results of a self-study by the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges to assess the current state of the humanities in its 58-campus system, to fathom the difficulties faced by humanities instructors, and to suggest ways to strengthen humanities instruction in the technical/vocational setting. (EL)

Questions what the English department is doing and why and what it should be doing and why. (TO)

Suggests that the humanities can be revitalized by some humanists developing teaching and research interests in fields in the contemporary world. (TO)

After distinguishing between what humanizing education is and what it is not, specific steps which can be taken to humanize secondary education are pointed out. (KM)

With the conviction that a student needs purpose in life and that the humanities as a discipline can contribute most significantly to this achievement, research to determine the extent of higher education programs in this country was undertaken, with the encouraging conclusion that humanities are offered in some form in all institutions surveyed.…

Article describes the Humanities Curriculum Project as an example of using attractive and stimulating source material for adults as a means to organize successful discussion classes. (GB)

Article stresses humanities education as a course of study and as a vehicle for restoring our sensory and psychological balance. (Author/RK)

Greater academic freedom for college professors in the humanities field would result in a type of classroom instruction that would be relevant to the needs of modern society. (CK)

Believes the continued inclusion of the Humanities in the Elementary School Curriculum may be threatened and examines the reasons. Suggests ways literature, art, music, creative writing and dramatics can be included in the program if they are developed with a new conception of the Humanities. (RB)

This paper outlines the experience of a group of teachers when they showed three films dealing with war/peace issues to secondary students in one of the experimental schools in the Humanities Curriculum Project 1968-69. (SM)

An interdisciplinary approach to teaching humanities increases an appreciation and awareness of the environment. (MN)

Refers . . . to service given by the theatre, as an art and as an institution, in and for schools." (Author)

Refutes O'Connor's argument for replacing humanities education with an emphasis on science and mathematics (see "Two Concepts of Education," p. 137, this issue). Concludes that the humanities deserve as serious a place in popular education as the sciences; both emphases form society and its purposes. (Author/KC)