Paper presented at the Second International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish in Madrid, Spain, in February 1971. (DS)

Responds to a report by the Commission of the Humanities that concluded the humanities need rethinking as much as support, explores the ways that teaching methods have jeopardized humanistic education. (HTH)

The article proposes Stern's (1983) framework for classifying issues related to instruction in order to ascertain the relevance of Universal Grammar (UG) in the ESL/EFL classroom. Discussed in this article, particularly as UG pertains to them, are issues related to: (a) L1 transfer; (b) teaching rules and giving error correction versus presenting…

This paper is divided into two parts. The first part, "Speaking Pictures and Visual Poems," briefly considers the origin of the term "sister arts." Discussed are the three main features of the historical relationship between painting and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain and draws out their educational implications. Part 2,…

This handbook is based on experience with courses in which writing coaches participated, as part of the Program in Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi. The courses were in the areas of humanities, philosophy, fine arts, and history. The handbook first defines a writing coach as a person who is attached to a class for the purpose…

These five essays explore curriculum reform, the future of America's schools, inquiry-directed education, rights and responsibilities, and the roles of teachers and schools in an age of confrontation. The central theme is the role of the organized profession in educational change. In the final analysis it is the students, the teachers, and the…

The article describes a Humanities program in a Massachusetts Junior High School. (MF)

Suggestions are given on developing a humanities course for high school students. (SP)

Describes how arts and humanities programs have been integrated into related or allied arts curricula in elementary and secondary schools. Ways to approach the learning and teaching of related arts are discussed. These include analogous concepts, common themes, historical eras, and art works that are combinations of different art forms. (AM)

This article investigates teaching the application of technical ideas by non-technical means, especially by using puzzles to engage students. After discussing the need to teach students to evaluate contexts in which decisions about computer security must be made, we suggest questions and scenarios drawn from political science, history, as well as…

This paper examines data drawn from interviews with homeless people who were undertaking a "Clemente" programme offered by the Australian Catholic University in the Vincentian Village in East Sydney. The "Clemente" programme, conceptualised by Shorris, is based on the belief that an education in the humanities empowers people…

Many students come to college with little knowledge of or interest in traditional humanities topics; however, a college teacher of humanities can use science fiction as a "door in," a tool to take students from the known to the unknown. Literary elements such as characterization, plot, setting, theme, and point of view are present in science…

Foreign language study and culture study are two important complementary subjects which have the outward direction of interest and human value necessary for students to develop their personal growth. Article describes a program for such growth. (Author/RK)