Possibilities for a secondary major in environmental education at the undergraduatelevel are described. Indiana University's Environmental Studies Program is oriented in two directions--science, emphasizing the natural systems and social science and humanities, emphasizing the human aspects of the ecological crisis. (BL)

Proposes a tripartite curriculum oriented to subject matter, new holistic or general techniques of analysis, and the encouragement of all those best impulses in man under such traditional labels as ethics and morality, social values and the public philosophy, and under modern terms human relations, sensitivity training. (Author/VW)

"Humanities do something deeper than teach. They exercise our emotions, they discipline them, they give us patterns of excellence against which we can measure our own achievements... They ask questions." It is essential that our educators recognize the value of a broad humanities program. (Author/JL)

Tasks for scientists in a demilitarized world--developing a mental model of the new international economic order and solving environmental, food, and other social problems--are examined. The humanities can help scientists reorder values. Includes an appendix of possible products for a converted military industrial capacity. (SR)

The designation of "liberal" as the educational path toward a person's cultural completeness has given way to use of that term in contexts implying freedom for personal exploration of all kinds. The primary functions of the liberal education institution have become sidetracked by consumerism. (MLW)

For his Humanities Curriculum Project (HCP), Stenhouse defined the humanities as the study of human issues of universal concern. Because he viewed curricula as praxiologies (hypothetical strategies for realizing ideas in practice), secondary English teachers using the HCP materials were given general principles which they had to translate into…

The humanities can provide the foundation for the pursuit of excellence in both students and teachers by enriching and enlivening the common culture. (MLF)

This study investigated the hypothesis that disclosure of cognitive style map information raises the academic achievement of community college students. Experimental and control group mean differences were statistically significant. The size of the absolute difference in percentage points demonstrated a considerable effect on the semester grade.…