This collection of essays seeks to offer a composite portrait of state humanities programs from a wide range of viewpoints. Topics explored include: the role of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the importance of the humanities; origins and new directions for state programs; humanities and the issues of public policy, the arts, science,…

Listings of general and subject specific newspaper indexes, book review indexes, and serial bibliographies held by the Arkansas University library are provided. The general indexes include information on statistics, general literature, periodicals, and government documents. Subject specific indexes and bibliographies focus on the social sciences…

Intended primarily for us by gifted children and their teachers, this annotated list of approximately 200 references in print is classified in five subject categories: general, humanities, social sciences, history, and science. References selected are recommended for their accuracy and comprehensiveness. Entries are coded to indicate both basic…

The root of many of the problems in education today is the shift in values from humanism to humanitarianism. While humanism elevates the individual, humanitarianism attempts to elevate mankind in general. Humanists feel that human problems stem from faults within individuals, and that the central purpose in life is to improve and discipline…

A study of cooperation between community colleges and public libraries relative to community education in the humanities utilized a three-phase data collection plan. Phase I surveyed 198 colleges that had responded to an earlier community education survey and indicated they cooperated with public libraries; 169 responded. In Phase II, a revised…

This paper reports the results of a study designed to answer questions regarding job satisfaction among two-year college faculty and its relationship to common demographic variables. Respondents to a nationwide survey of 1,493 humanities faculty and 505 non-humanities faculty in 156 two-year colleges were grouped into high, medium, or low…

This publication about moral education is a conversation between a university professor of religion and the chairman of a high school social studies department. As part of the National Humanities Faculty Why Series, the book is intended to help students, teachers, and citizens maintain and improve their intellectual vigor and human awareness and…

An international compendium of periodicals indexed and/or abstracted in regularly appearing services, this document includes more than 30,000 listings of periodicals, serials, services, and yearbooks in the humanities and social sciences. Listing is alphabetical by periodical title. Under each title appear all the services that index it. This…

An international compendium of periodicals indexed or abstracted in regularly appearning services, this document includes more than 33,000 listings of periodicals, serials, services, and yearbooks in the humanities and social sciences. The listing is alphabetically arranged by journal title. Under the title appear all services which index it. This…

An examination of honors courses in speech education provides the basis for this collection of articles by (1) Jack C. Gilbert, who justifies providing, through college honors courses, "the best education for the best students," (2) Owen Peterson, who explains the organization and taching of a college honors course in the fundamentals of speech,…

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the engineering student's education in the humanities and social sciences. This study, conceived as both a fact-finding and policy-formulating project, aimed to: establish goals in social science and engineering study which are relevant to the changing social role of the engineer; examine the resources and…

Designed for the instructor in the humanities, this article presents a methodology for the teaching of any film using Walter Colmes's film "The Women Who Came Back" to demonstrate the method. The cinematic code and the response which this code elicits from the viewer are discussed. Specific shots and sequences are cited as examples of…

The purpose of this report, arising out of a conference, is to provide guidelines for curriculum development in the occupation cluster designated by the Center for Occupational and Adult Education of the Office of Education as "the fine arts and humanities." The scope of the categories discussed are: (1) career, (2) work, (3) values, (4)…

In this tenth book of a series entitled "Perspectives in Humanism," analyses are included concerning the meaning of science for modern man and its effects on contemporary politics. Natural, social, and humanistic sciences are discussed in connection with religion, philosophy, and politics to indicate the importance of the scholar who fulfills the…

Educational research and development projects funded by the English Schools Council are listed under the following headings: English; Humanities; Languages; Creative Studies; Mathematics; Science; Inter-related Studies; Welsh; School, Home and Community; School Organization and Resources; and Examinations. For each project the title, the location…