Three conferences on educational innovation raised basic questions concerning goals and values for junior college students. Speakers addressed each of the conferences on problems encountered in their respective areas of humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. The addresses are presented, along with recommendations made by the…

Studying the Bible as a "source book for the humanities" can help students understand Biblical allusions found in literature, the fine arts, the news media, and cultured conversation. Students at Newton High School (Massachusetts) took part in a Biblical study course, using the King James Version because student most commonly meet…

The author attempts to delineate the three critical parameters which he feels must be considered in examining the role of general education science in an open society--students, instructors, and an holistic curricula. One other element considered to be of particular importance to such a teaching experience was style. The author briefly considers…

The Hunter College High School Twelfth grade humanities curriculum was designed to end the artificiality between life and learning as found in the traditional program of studies. An effort was made to restructure the final year of high school to focus on Man rather than subjects, to see the interrelationships of the disciplines, and to end the…

This essay discusses aesthetic education as a special vehicle for value education, in particular the cultivation of imaginative perception. It argues that if imagination is disciplined by thought, and love is justified by knowledge, that enlightened cherishing can then develop. The aesthetic image is discussed from the dimensions of aesthetic…

Described are projected educational programs for children aged 6 and under, with implications for handicapped child education. The author's premise is that all children need to understand themselves and their world in order to understand those similar and dissimilar to them; how different children gain this understanding may differ. Educational…

This paper, part of a research monograph series, focuses on a philosophy of education which is humanistic. The author discusses theories of art education, using as an example of visual art Giorgione's "The Tempest". A synopsis of what needs to be known in order to appreciate the various levels of significance in a great work of visual art precedes…

With assumptions in mind that the environment has emerged as a legitimate concern of our nation's schools, and that environmental education is interdisciplinary, the Maryland State Department of Education held a meeting for representatives from various parts of the country concerning the possibility of connecting education and the environment.…

The 1970/71 work of the Schools Council (a body with a majority of teacher members which conducts research and development on curricula, teaching methods, and examinations in English and Welsh schools) is summarized under the headings of Curriculum Development, Examinations, Research, Publishing Activities, and Financing the Council. Summaries of…

One of the central issues in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel is the distinction between "problem" and "mystery." The author claims that speech communication scholars find it necessary to objectify elements of communication in the framework of a problem in order to find answers in the form of systematic theories to explain the…

Notes that pessimism about the future may result in self-fulfilling prophecy; suggests that a positive vision can set standards by which we may direct change. Ideals of world religions and ethics and world views of more recent times should be reaffirmed. Interdependence and diversity must be perceived as features of our world. Journal…

In this essay the author examines the state of the humanities with respect to four indicators--production. financial support, demand, and influence; offers a hopeful prognosis for the future; and prescribes ways for the humanistic disciplines to strengthen their positions, such as reinstating core curricula and teaching basic skills. (JMD)

Describes the humanities component of the Management and Supervision Development program at Clinton Community College (Iowa) which leads to either an associate or certificate degree and offers instruction in the theories of marketing and distribution, labor problems, communications, government and its role in business, and industrial psychology.…

A television course on the Faust legend, a segment of interdisciplinary humanities study, is described. The course is part of the University Studies/Weekend College Program of the College of Lifelong Learning at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, which offers a general studies degree program for adults. (SW)

During the sixties, community college planners were conservative in their attitudes toward integrated humanities or interdisciplinary courses, but two-year college enrollments have changed and so have those attitudes. Examples of current approaches are described. (LBH)