In a study of "topic-types" as a common academic text structure for second-language students, 80 texts used in humanities classes (history, geography, economics, business studies) at upper secondary levels were analyzed. Results support the existence of topic-types in the humanities and the use of the framework as a feasible pedagogical tool. (33…

Describes the development of a system to retrieve images for an international project that is producing a pictorial dictionary of classical mythology, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Applications to other types of information are discussed, two classification systems for Art History are described, and design principles for…

Discusses "Object LOGO," a symbolic computer programing language for use in the creative arts. Describes the use of the program in approaching arts projects from textual, graphic, and musical perspectives. Suggests that use of the program can promote development of creative skills and humanities learning in general. (SG)

Discusses the use of an instructional morphological parser (IMP) in the teaching of courses in theoretical and computational morphology. Provides an overview of computational morphology. Outlines the two courses and speculates on computational and linguistic concepts that students learned. Examines problems encountered in teaching about recursion.…

Developments in humanities scholarship are moving in surprisingly congruent directions. Far from competing with proper attention to pedagogy, they provide solid bases for curricular coherence and teaching effectiveness. New integrative themes crossing disciplinary lines in humanities, focusing here on history, can help fulfill several humanities…

Traces the occupational and intellectual components of sociology's effort to win recognition as a science. Focuses on the model of science used and its limits. Argues that sociology, as quasi-science and quasi-humanities, should be maintaining the empirical outlook of a science while recognizing the impact of civilization on concepts and theories.…

In the Spanish penal system, the Humanities Curriculum is intended to rehabilitate inmates by teaching them the value of human dignity, communication, critical reasoning, and cultural heritage. (SK)

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has begun a grant program to expand career options for Ph.D.s in the humanities, both within and outside academe. Awards will help academic departments encourage students to interact with the world as part of graduate training; use training in nonacademic settings; and match top students with…

A humanities program for incarcerated women was based on Freire's liberation model and feminist studies. The women assumed ownership of their learning, engaged in critical thought, and found their own voices. (SK)

Uses a South African university course on critical citizenship as case study of the challenges of interdisciplinary education. Shows how the process of identifying generic competencies across humanities disciplines may omit the necessary foundation for achieving those competencies. (SK)

Describes how a policy shift by the National Endowment for the Humanities has left regional grant recipients scrambling to make new plans. (EV)

In order to make effective decisions based on probability, one must be able to distinguish between the objective-factual aspects of the decision and the subjective aspects. This study examines the hypothesis that academic studies contribute to the development of the ability to make such distinctions in day-to-day decision-making. Some 940…

This paper argues that there is no other way to describe history, and particularly the personal life history of people, apart from in the form of a narrative. It also suggests that as history is not understandable, save in the form of a narrative, the narration as such "makes" history. Drawing on the findings of a research project on…

To teach students particular ways of thinking in the humanities, three faculty in literature and creative writing discover how to conceptualize these approaches for students and model them or have students model them in the classroom, and they assess the results on student learning. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)

Ellen Lagemann focuses on developments within the history of education to examine questions about the role of humanities research in the study of education--an issue which has plagued education scholarship since its inception. In this article, Lagemann demonstrates that scholars of education have sought to base their work on factual or…