The emphasis on humanities has swung like a pendulum through the years, particularly in the world of higher education. Many perceive it as a discipline of the elite that attempts to connect us to distant places from times long ago that are mythical, historical or hypothetical, and somehow more important than today. Simply stated, humanities has…

The "Next Generation Science Standards" and other educational reforms support the formation of deep connections across the STEM disciplines. Integrated STEM is considered as a best practice by the educational communities of the disparate disciplines. However, the integration of non-STEM disciplines is understudied and generally limited…

Twenty-first-century learning and how it differs from prior conceptions of learning have received significant attention lately. Kereluik, Mishra, Fahnoe, and Terry (2013) offered a synthesis of multiple expert frameworks and perspectives on 21st-century learning, summarizing them in nine forms of knowledge (under three broad categories:…

One of the strong trends in medical education today is the integration of the humanities into the basic medical curriculum. The anatomy program is an obvious choice for using the humanities to develop professionalism and ethical values. They can also be used to develop close observational skills. Many medical schools have developed formal art…

Humanities can be simplistically defined as a program, as a set of related or unrelated activities, or as human and humane interaction. The following assumptions are important in establishing humanities programs in the elementary school: programs must be reality oriented; there should be an emphasis on direct participation for the student;…

This secondary humanities curriculum is based on four assumptions: humanities are for all students, must be interdisciplinary as well as presented through multimedia, deal with real issues affectively as well as cognitively, involve value judgements and decision making. (JH)

Suggests that the exploration of values might form a bridge linking the sciences and humanities. Discusses problems of application of knowledge in both fields. Emphasizes the need for new values and political instruments with changing knowledge and situations. (EB)

Reflecting the increased interest in humanities programs for elementary, middle, and secondary schools, this book provides descriptions of humanities programs developed by 35 schools throughout the country. Although the selection of programs represents a variety of approaches (e.g., some open to only high-ability students, others designed for low…

This study, funded under an ESEA Title III grant, evaluates the current practices and problems of interdisciplinary arts and humanities programs in the elementary school. Involved in the study were all Title III Arts and Humanities and PACE programs, selected educators influential in the development of interdisciplinary studies, and selected…

Proposes a tripartite curriculum oriented to subject matter, new holistic or general techniques of analysis, and the encouragement of all those best impulses in man under such traditional labels as ethics and morality, social values and the public philosophy, and under modern terms human relations, sensitivity training. (Author/VW)

The teaching of humanities and human values in medical schools has resulted from public concern about value decisions in medicine and from dissatisfaction of patients with the doctor-patient interaction. The Institute on Human Values in Medicine, Yale-New Haven, provides support to medical centers concerned about these issues. (SW)

Describes the general status of the preparation of social studies teachers. (Author/RK)

In a response to Burke's analysis of the liberal arts curriculum, the integration of the dialectical and rhetorical concepts of liberal education is advocated. One suggestion is to incorporate interdisciplinary colloquia into liberal arts curricula. (MLW)

To avoid becoming mere technicians of medicine, future physicians need to understand the human contexts of medical problems. Though courses in the medical humanities tend to range freely, the three disciplines most consistently drawn from are ethics, literature, and history. (Author/MLW)