Harvard University's Fellowships in Law and the Humanities program is an example of one effort to enrich legal education with humanistic values. Suggestions as to what is sought and what can be achieved by efforts to humanize legal education are offered, and some of the barriers blocking this goal are discussed. (JMD)

A study of two-year college humanities instructors surveyed demographic data, attitudes and preferences, reference group identification, and measures of job satisfaction and personal functioning. (JG)

The status of the humanities in community colleges was reviewed in a national survey by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. Recommendations are reported by this ERIC director, based on the assumptions that the humanities must be maintained and that they could be most effectively strengthened through interventions with the faculty…

Debunks notion that someone can teach for nine months and then start learning in a two-week summer institute. Describes a Seattle project that is demolishing teaching/learning barriers by allowing English and history teachers to meet monthly for an entire day to read and discuss literary and historical works and plan an interdisciplinary…

Discusses how library technology initiatives fit into local organizational contexts to meet the needs of users; examines the conditions existing prior to local initiatives and how organizations have responded; and presents organizational models for technology in the humanities. Highlights the electronic text initiative at Pennsylvania State…

Reports the results of a non-randomized study of 45 history Ph.D. students in England and discusses the results in terms of the theory of knowledge structure and the modification of knowledge structure due to information. Topics include information as process; a model of stages of the information process; and grounded theory. (Author/LRW)

Discusses the use of e-mail by humanities faculty based on an e-mail survey of faculty at Brigham Young University (Utah) and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Results indicate that humanities faculty are significantly heavier e-mail users than previously reported. (LRW)

Discusses the use of bioethics and bioethical dilemmas in different subject areas at the high school level by focusing on the case of Baby K. Includes the story of Baby K, classroom activities for U.S. history, 10th and 11th grade ethics, and anatomy and physiology. (CMK)

Describes the rewards and challenges of using the Patchwork Text to teach Greek Tragedy to Cambridge University English final-year students. The article uses close reading of the students' texts, analysis and reflection to discuss both the products and the process of Patchwork writing. (Author/AEF)

Proposes a model for a comprehensive arts curriculum. Discusses the significant phases of the curriculum and relates them to each other. These phases include identification of values, conceptualization, systematizing, interpretation, operation, and experience. Lists five objectives that serve as criteria for judging the worth of curricula. (KO)

Compared background and motivation of 82 high-achieving college women in engineering and science to those of 31 women in the humanities and social sciences. Areas of investigation included family composition and parental characteristics, childhood socialization, sources of support for career choice, and work characteristics. Significant…

Reviews the literature showing trends toward the increasing employment of part-time faculty at community colleges. Describes existing models for the integration of adjunct faculty into the college community. Suggests a model of systematic, ongoing, adult-to-adult communication for the integration of part-timers into a fully functioning humanities…

Describes the use of drama to give meaning and understanding to a unit on Native Americans. Students worked in small groups or "tribes" to research cultural attributes, and then acted out tribal rituals and created costumes and artifacts. The group work and the active roleplaying helped students to develop a new understanding of…

Describes one teacher's experiences with an Independent Study in the Humanities Fellowship. She researched the personal diaries of women pioneers who made the overland journey west in the 1800s, visited pioneer museums, and drove over the Oregon trail. (SM)

Three teachers (one university professor, one secondary teacher, and one K-12 language arts coordinator) formed a writing group to generate texts about the phenomenon of student autobiographical writing in the classroom. The paper discusses the benefits of autobiographical writing to students and describes teachers' experiences with student…