Career Education in its broadest sense could be the study of technology, or analysis of the ways in which a social group provides for its material needs. (Author)

Describes a high school Humanities program for the study of Man's dilemmas, demonstrated in current problems of alienation, and reflected in literature, art, music, and drama. (Author/GB)

The author is concerned with politics in a wider sense--providing children with an individual and collective sense of identity in time and space, giving them opportunities for the exploration of shared experience, making them aware of the responsibilities and privileges of community. (Editor)

Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.

A secondary course designed to study human attitudes and values through the use of multimedia, multidiscipline social studies is described. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (Author/DE)

This paper discusses speech communication's expansion as a discipline and its relation to the rest of the humanities. Focusing on the interpretation of literature, a speech communication course that relates to several other fields of study, the paper stresses the individual development that can occur through the experiences offered by the study of…

Miami-Dade Community College offers a course called "The Art of Being Human," which uses a text-anthology, study guide, television films, and slide-tape independent study programs. The student taking this introductory course hopefully will be motivated to learn more about humanities in other courses or in self-study. (Author/LBH)

A course designed to enhance human behavior and social environment content dealing with urban family life is described. The use of sociological and literary material by white and minority team teachers reduces tension generated by examination of material that is close to student experience. (Author/LBH)

Presents a model showing how symptoms differ from other adaptive behaviors by their low productivity. Symptom's paradoxical dual norm structure result from communication patterns and indirect strategies which control the environment. Suggests if such structures are to be removed promptly, different but equally stable dual norm structures are…

This is a report on the International Schools Association (ISA) workshop which was intended as a high-level conference concerned with new educational thinking in Britain and the U.S., and also as an interdisciplinary experience for participants. The report contains summaries of talks by the principal speakers and a list of the discussion groups.…

A new major at Marylhurst College for Lifelong Learning called human studies is described. It is a phenomenologically based curriculum in quality of life and intentional change. The major is individualized and problem-centered. (Author/MLW)

Since 1950, the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. has produced what is currently known as the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography. This article explores the reasons why it was created and describes the structure of this complex collection of ethnographic works. Over time, this resource has been produced in four different formats: paper slips,…

Strategies for organizing and sequencing peace education programs in art education are explored. First, the concept of peace and the development of peace education are examined. The affirmation of peace as life, justice, and freedom contains four areas of study for art education: (1) human relations; (2) cultural diversity; (3) the environment;…

The amorphous nature of nonverbal study can benefit from the unifying yet pluralistic perspective of the humanities and liberal arts. Those who teach, write, and create under the broad rubric of the humanities appreciate the complexity of human life and try to honor the subtle and the special in human actions and creations. When addressed from…

The importance of effective communication compels investigators to seek new ways of measuring physiological responses and to practice the science of psychophysiology. The main objective of psychophysiological research is to describe the systems in organisms which transfer information between the subsystems of soma and psyche. Results should lead…