The focus of this article is whether pure literature can contribute to education. As part of the study of modern literature in Swedish upper secondary school, novels about the future were examined, especially some that take a critical position toward modern civilization. In an experiment using the Perspective Text Analysis approach of B.…

Discusses three perspectives of humanistic education: classroom milieu, the learner as a person, and the subject matter. (Author/PG)

Describes a new approach to undergraduate study of the humanities at the University of Denver, how it was developed, how it is working, and what strategies it suggests for curricular change. (Editor/PG)

Whether or not a person consciously studies the past, he has in his mind a conception of past events. (GB)

Briefly discusses classroom uses of the filmstrip and lists and annotates a number of filmstrip programs in a variety of content areas. (TO)

Article is the transcript of a speech by Dr. John Barcroft, Director of the Division of Public Programs for the National Endowment for the Humanities, given at the National Meeting of State-Based Committees in Washington during May of 1973. (GB)

The relationship between the two concepts (evolution, religion) from an historical and social view is discussed. The concepts are seen to respond differently to the various needs of society, with considerable conflict between them in areas which involve the justification of religious beliefs. (Author/EB)

A teacher in Germany uses art to teach history; a teacher in Massachusetts uses prints by famous artists to create a mini-museum'' in the classroom. (SP)

Changing concerns of the student boy and the character of their demands are among reasons for the decline of traditional general education. (DS)

From an October 20, 1972, address, NAHE conference, Seattle, Washington. The interdisciplinary nature of humanities education is emphasized, with the major focus on the need for humanistic education'' rather than humanities education''. (JB)

With funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, three multimedia unit prototypes were produced, replicated and field tested. Unit 1: The Visual/Tonal Analogy; Unit 2: The Visual Koan; and Unit 3: The Classic and Romantic Point of View. (JB)

Stylistic analysis or attribution study is a very different kind of indexing. Instead of indexing subjects, it measures such things as the frequencies of common words such as and" and the". These studies reveal a great deal about consistency, methodology, and the approaches used for documents in the humanities. (41 references) (Author/NH)

Highly specialized education is no longer relevant to the needs of our diversified society. A return to a broad, general education curriculum is needed. (HS)

Describes methods of organizing an interdisciplinary program designed to study the techniques of finding out" used in science, literature, language, humanities and the arts. Suggests possible topics that might serve as subjects for seminars and provides references that could support such studies. (AL)