Presents some general ideas about teaching and learning, involving the characteristics and effectiveness of education, students' learning practices, and teachers' performance and class load. Indicates that the teacher should set up conductive environments and help students get unstuck in their learning. (CC)

A paper read in February 1972 at the National Conference on Graduate Studies in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. (RB)

A minimum of technological awareness is essential to Black Africa in its efforts to modernize itself. The young grow up deprived of an environment where they are made to feel at home with gadgets and machines. Elementary technical training and orderly exposure to mathematics are essential to child's education. (EB)

Describes the general status of the preparation of social studies teachers. (Author/RK)

Higher education is not producing teachers with vision for development of humanistic curriculum. The effort to humanize the curriculum is carried on by the self-appointed; from these efforts will ultimately emerge the most satisfactory methods for teaching the humanities. (Author)

Paper presented at the 1972 Summer Seminar of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) held June 19-23, 1972, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (DS)

The article shows the federal and state support given to the Arts and Humanities. (MF)

Student unrest stems partially from a desire to find meaning in the education that they are receiving. (CK)

Instruction in the humanities has reached a cultural impasse. The problem lies in finding a way to center the lore of a culture in any given curriculum. (CK)

Two problems are examined in this essay: the relation of the mass media to humanistic studies, and how the sociology of literature and art might bear on such studies. The focus is less on theory wihtin the humanisties than on what might be learned from the theoretical work of the social sciences. (SE)

Noting widespread student discontent, author advocates new approaches to teaching of the humanities, particularly the fine arts and especially in college. More emphasis on creativity and participation for all students, not just the talented, he believes will bring present relevance and preparation for meaningful leisure experience in future. (PD)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL), December 26, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

Paper read at the 1971 ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) Summer Seminar for Chairmen, June 21-25 at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. (DS)