Author believes the liberal arts college should be restored to the center of the educational process, and improved patterns must be devised for interaction between those in the liberal arts and those in professional studies. By implementing these strategies, destructive fragmentation in higher education will be eliminated. (Author/PG)

Hartford Boys School in Cheshire was a trial school for the Keele Integrated Studies Project. Author, Head of the new Humanities Department since 1970, discussed their experience over the past four years. (Editor/RK)

Main article on a special topic: "The Means-Ends Problem of Education in the Humanities. See AA 502 149 and AA 502 150 for response articles.

Discusses three perspectives of humanistic education: classroom milieu, the learner as a person, and the subject matter. (Author/PG)

From an October 20, 1972, address, NAHE conference, Seattle, Washington. The interdisciplinary nature of humanities education is emphasized, with the major focus on the need for humanistic education'' rather than humanities education''. (JB)

Argues that the issue of literacy goes beyond the acquisition of basic skills and examines the principles of classical humanism as a source for a definition of literacy. Proposes emphases on cultural literacy, social and moral questions, and genuine community as components of humanistic education. (DMM)

A definition of the humanities is provided: centrality of concern on human beings, attention to the individual rather than the group, awareness of the ways in which we know, concern for moral values, the obligation to carry knowledge beyond description, and capacity to communicate. (MLW)

A discussion is provided of the contributions of the study of the humanities towards the improvement of community college occupational education. After section I provides background information on the creation of a Shared Vision Task Force by the National Council for Occupational Education (NCOE) and the Community College Humanities Association…

The knowledge explosion, the growth of technology, and the development of new teaching methodologies seem to the author to have led to a sense of unrelatedness, insignificance, and a loss of personal identity. The implications of this position for language teachers are viewed in terms of communication and motivation. Weaknesses of the scientific,…

Some cautionary notes about interdisciplinary programs are offered. (JH)

This article seeks to clear a way for the discovery of a mode of describing objectives which would be more suitable to humanities subjects. Some weak points in previous attempts to do this are analysed, and some of the major problems of the field are presented. (Author)

Presents some instances of the implications of chemistry which illustrate both its scientific and humanistic nature. Indicates that chemistry can be used as a bridge to span the artificially created chasm between Snow's two cultures and thus to demonstrate the fundamental unity of all knowledge. (CC)