Reviews a two-horned dilemma faced when teaching values in the humanities classroom. Identifies the two horns as the demand for traditional value-centered education and the rapidly shifting cultural patterns of postmodern society. Explains an approach to value-centered education developed for use in an introductory humanities course. (DSK)

A teacher describes a class activity for teaching and illuminating the allegory of the cave in Plato's Republic, a parable that illustrates Plato's thoughts on enlightenment and the educative process. Students create the cave in the classroom, recreate the experience of its inhabitants, and discuss their own reactions to the experience. (SV)

Presents a university-level German curriculum that incorporates a combination of communicative and content-based learning. Demonstrates that professional school students can be trained alongside humanities majors by making minor but far-reaching adjustments to the elementary and intermediate language program, and without placing undue restraints…

Gathers some of Sir Francis Bacon's educational ideas from his various writings and applies them to the five stages of undergraduate professional and technical writing program development: planning, implementation, mission, design and development, staffing, and administration. (SG)

Used 20 years' of data from colleges of arts and sciences at a set of selective private research universities to examine whether the proportion of faculty positions and salaries going to science increased. Contrary to expectations, found that it did not. (EV)

Presents a humanities and social science researcher's perspective on changes in scholarly communication as a result of new information and communication technologies. Discusses communication and community, interdisciplinarity, scholarly information, and competition versus cooperation, and argues that researchers and intermediaries need to find a…

The question of what is humanity and how it is expressed has endless and dynamic answers. My paper is an attempt to construct and explain the answer based on the insights Indigenous humanity expressed in the continent called North America. The four fundamental insights are organised around the concept of creation as ecology, the insights of…

To examine Heidegger's pedagogy is to be invited into a particular era and cultural reality--starting in Weimar Germany and progressing into the rise and fall of the Third Reich. In his attempt to reform the German university in a strictly hierarchical, authoritarian and nationalistic mold, Heidegger addressed one group of students and professors…

In April 2000 Ralph A. Smith was recognized by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) as the National Art Educator of the Year. At a general session of the NAEA national convention, he received a standing ovation that lasted several minutes. He appeared surprised at first, then elated, by the resounding sense of appreciation the…

In the humanities and social sciences--where partisan passions color research and teaching--higher education tends to become an intellectually closed shop. Stephen Balch recommends that, in such fields, the intellectual marketplace be reopened through a reconfiguring of academic governance informed by Madisonian principles. He contends that policy…

This study shows that the enrolment rate for the Canadian university system, at 56%, is one of the highest among the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This good quantitative performance, however, is not accompanied by a similar qualitative performance in science graduation: only 25% of all…

To what extent have postmodernism and research modalities which fundamentally question the notion of the objective researcher impacted on the production of Ph.D. theses in the humanities and social sciences? This paper examines the visual and verbal representations of the writerly self through the title pages, tables of contents and introductory…

English faculty in community colleges feel pressured to make their composition courses acceptable for transfer to four-year schools. In particular, many of them feel obligated to emphasize academic research and argument at the expense of literature. But community college students will benefit from first-year courses that address a wide range of…

In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments. Moreover, this book presents strategies for addressing the chronic illiteracy among…

Most Americans actually understand the importance of an education rich in arts, science and humanities. But what they may not realize is that their children are not getting enough. Each day more and more of the arts and humanities are being drained from our nation's school curriculums. Studies have shown that the arts play a stimulating role in…