In April and May 1974, the Center of Continuing Education and Community Service of the University of Hawaii at Hilo sponsored a course for 41 members of the Hui Aloha senior citizens club. Between 39 and 44 students, ranging in age from 60 to 93, participated in an experimental workshop program which involved four 8-hour tours of colleges and…

This bulletin contains information for applicants who wish to submit proposals for projects in the humanities. Educational programs, public programs, research fellowships and stipends, and projects designed and conducted by young people supported by the Endowment, are described. General information is included on eligibility and application…

The framework for a course in the study of man in his relationships with society, with nature, and within himself is presented. In this nongraded, student-directed course, the areas of investigation includ philosophy, art, music, history, literature, science, and architecture. Each student should produce at least one individual contribution and…

This volume presents a discussion of the research methods, results and findings, and conclusions of a study to develop a computer generated index of course guides for Related Arts and Humanities Programs that include music and are currently operating in secondary schools throughout the country. The computer-generated index is contained in Volume…

Summarized are the findings and evaluations of a PACE Project, working closely with the Performing Arts Foundation of Huntington Township near New York City, on a program which explored ways in which the professional performing arts could successfully be used in education to foster aesthetic appreciation, understanding and involvement. The project…

The literature of knowledge is a very large system in the cybernetic sense of intractibility to control. Improving access to it needs some simplifying theory. A step in this direction is a hypothesis constructed from basic concepts. These include cybernetic concepts of variety and requisite variety; a version of the mathematical concept of…

For the past four years Worcester Polytechnic Institute has been working to produce engineers who understand and appreciate the humanities. (Editor)

Explains how all secondary school subject matter can be learned and taught philosophically. Reviews basic components of a philosophical lesson (truth, values, faith, logic) and describes a classroom activity based on a reading from a Berthold Brecht play. (Author/AV)

Five essays from a symposium represent some suggestions as to the roles the humanities might play in various phases of gerontology. Presented at the meeting of the Gerontological Society, New York City, 1976. (Author)

The rather specific, standardized notion of what knowledge is and what its uses are is explored. Then a comparison is offered between the contemporary and older views of knowledge, and the nature and usefulness of the humanities are noted. (Author/LBH)

Examines to what extent primary source materials required by humanistic scholars are accessible to them through the library. (Author/PF)

Our technologically advancing, globally interconnected world has forced educators to rethink interdisciplinarity. Discipline boundaries separating the humanities, sciences, and mathematics are being erased across the curriculum as students are being asked to think critically about socially relevant science, technology, and society topics. Includes…

Focuses on the censorship controversy in Peterborough County, Ontario, from 1976 to 1985, and examines the attack on, defense of, and counter argument to teaching Margaret Laurence's "The Diviners." Generalizes the anticensorship stance often taken by English teachers to defend the teaching of controversial literary works. (JK)

This article reviews Allan Bloom's 1987 book, THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND: HOW HIGHER EDUCATION HAS FAILED DEMOCRACY AND IMPOVERISHED THE SOULS OF TODAY'S CHILDREN. Compares Bloom's book with THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA, a 1930s book by Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins. (JDH)

Discusses the second session of a Vassar College workshop on computers and the humanities which focused on how to teach computing to humanists. Arguing for a holistic approach, the author outlines the material to be taught and how to teach it. Emphasizes ample hands-on training, and instruction in general computer principles not the specifics of…