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Improving Humanities Education: Philosophy And Design, Ronald W. Carstens
Improving Humanities Education: Philosophy And Design, Ronald W. Carstens
Perspectives (1969-1979)
Both the Hebrew notion of the fall and the Greek concept of hubris have taught us that human endeavors are essentially acts of pride and possibly acts of arrogance. I suppose that a paper entitled "Improving Humanities Education" would be judged to be as at least impertinent in as much as it suggests that the teaching of the humanities can or ought to be improved. But I believe it is possible to improve the way that body of human intellectual and artistic study of man as man we call the humanities is addressed and actualized in the formal process of …
Cooperative Education - General Education: A New Synthesis?, John J. Romano
Cooperative Education - General Education: A New Synthesis?, John J. Romano
Perspectives (1969-1979)
When I first proposed this paper some months ago I had a number of specific purposes in mind. First, I'd grown interested in the development of a concept in American higher education which has been termed cooperative education. Secondly, I wondered about the linkages between cooperative education and what traditionally we have called general or liberal education. Thirdly, I wondered if the linkages between these two concepts were of recent origin or have they existed for a long time without formal recognition. Fourthly, I wondered if this " new synthesis" was something that could have a significant impact on the …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 1
Perspectives (1969-1979)
No abstract provided.
The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four-Year Experience At Whittier College, Michael J. Mcbride
The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four-Year Experience At Whittier College, Michael J. Mcbride
Perspectives (1969-1979)
Most students begin college with little idea about the field of study they will eventually pursue. Some have made a decision in this area , but often have only a vague notion of what is implied in such a decision. Yet, in both cases, the general pattern of liberal arts colleges is to put such students into a general studies program for two years consisting of required or strongly recommended courses. While students may gain a broad educational background, those with little idea about their future area of concentration must base a decision regarding the " major" on a brief …
Philosophy As Humanistic Model, Gary R. Sudano
Philosophy As Humanistic Model, Gary R. Sudano
Perspectives (1969-1979)
Science and philosophy both reach "straight into experience and arrange it with new meaning."2 The novice in philosophy is struck by its attempts to provide answers to the essential questions of life. Indeed, he often becomes impatient with philosophical theories which seem to backtrack and are analytic rather than speculative, and philosophy instructors are careful to balance critical activities with answer-generating activities in the classroom. In most cases the student tends to pass lightly over the former in order to get to the meat of the latter. This is the first at traction of philosophy for students, if there …
Opinion Writing For Publication, Richard P. Bailey
Opinion Writing For Publication, Richard P. Bailey
Perspectives (1969-1979)
So, when the "writing crisis" hit the pedagogical fan, I was ready with an "innovative" method (so dear to the hearts of educators) for teaching writing. What had lurked in my mind for years pushed its way from subconscious to conscious - i.e ., the only completely satisfying reward for good writing is publication. Students who are given a better reason for writing than the bored approval of a graduate student and/or an arbitrary grade by a young instructor marking papers and time until a section of English Lit. 5,000 opens - students with appetites whetted by the dream of …
The Woof And The Warp, S. R. Wiersteiner
The Woof And The Warp, S. R. Wiersteiner
Perspectives (1969-1979)
What is the mission of the university: To prepare for life, or to prepare for a career? If one follows the secular press and pursues the various journals concerned with higher education, one is struck with the " either/or" nature of the articles and comments concerning the goal of a university. But should it be an " either/or" question? Can the preparation for life's work be divorced from the preparation to enjoy that life to its fullest? The whole cloth is not made from only the woof, it must also include the warp.
The Editor's Page, George F. Estey
The Editor's Page, George F. Estey
Perspectives (1969-1979)
The Editor's Page for Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 2
The Human Experience, Dimensions Of Love: An Experiment In Interdisciplinary Studies, Patricia Ernenwein Zevin, Gene Sager, Brenda Montiel
The Human Experience, Dimensions Of Love: An Experiment In Interdisciplinary Studies, Patricia Ernenwein Zevin, Gene Sager, Brenda Montiel
Perspectives (1969-1979)
Dedicated to the support of interdisciplinary studies as intellectually sound and academically necessary, this paper is an expanded version of the presentation made by the authors during the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of General and Liberal Studies (October 27-29, 1977, Ogden, Utah). The subject of the conference, "General Education: Diversity by Design," seemed to the Interdisciplinary Studies team at Palomar College (including, in addition to the authors, Donna Tryon, Art, Richard Peacock, Film, and Don Piche, Philosophy) to be particularly appropriate to efforts there to establish a series of interdisciplinary courses in a thematic, team-taught design focusing on …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 2
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 9 No. 2
Perspectives (1969-1979)
No abstract provided.
Commentary On - "The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four Year Experience At Whittier College", Eugene Wine
Commentary On - "The Exploratory Year: A New Approach To The Four Year Experience At Whittier College", Eugene Wine
Perspectives (1969-1979)
I read with interest Michael McBride's article on the exploratory year at Whittier College. While I am sure that Whittier is satisfied with it and that it contains a number of innovative ideas, such as the "initial module" in various disciplines, I want to speak to the three assumptions upon which Professor McBride and his colleagues rejected any common interdisciplinary general education course for Whittier. I do so because the assumptions are so widely held and because Professor McBride states them so succinctly. I also speak to them as an admitted partisan of a common transdisciplinary general education core course …
Convention Report: Focusing On General Education At Chicago Aahe, Peyton Richter
Convention Report: Focusing On General Education At Chicago Aahe, Peyton Richter
Perspectives (1969-1979)
The spotlight during discussions of general education at the AAHE 1978 National Conference on Higher Education in Chicago (March 19-22) played back and forth upon Harvard's Dean Henry Rosovsky and the Harvard Report on the Core Curriculum. A modest but confident pragmatist, Rosovsky, as a panelist at a major session of the conference, began by reminding us that welcoming college graduates each year to the company of educated men and women makes sense only if we know what an educated person is. He and his committee, after much discussion and deliberation, had decided that an educated person: (1) must be …
Innovative Adult General Education: The Detroit Experiment, David W. Hartman, Richard T. Bohan, Otto Feinstein, Sandra Loehr, Linda Michalowski, F. Richard Place
Innovative Adult General Education: The Detroit Experiment, David W. Hartman, Richard T. Bohan, Otto Feinstein, Sandra Loehr, Linda Michalowski, F. Richard Place
Perspectives (1969-1979)
Increasingly, universities have confronted a changing population of undergraduate students. They find themselves under considerable scrutiny, from legislators, taxpayers and potential students. Concurrently, the impetus to re-appraise the mission of undergraduate education, so as to insure its accommodation in our changing society, is in need of refocusing. The issue of who comes to the university, and for what end, stands foresquare in the face of faculties, administrators and elected guardians of higher education, now more than ever before. Again we are charged with providing curricula and format that are relevant enough to retain the attention of today's new student, that …
Reading And New Ideas, Kenneth Vandermeulen
Reading And New Ideas, Kenneth Vandermeulen
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
A letter from the editor.
The Listening Journal: An Instructional Strategy For A Listening Awareness Program, Andrew D. Wolvin
The Listening Journal: An Instructional Strategy For A Listening Awareness Program, Andrew D. Wolvin
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
The need for training in listening is a problem which has baffled educators for years. Studies demonstrate the tremendous amount of time that we spend in listening within our communication time. Paul T. Rankin's classic study gave us some working percentages, percentages which have held up in other, more recent, research projects. Through his analysis, Rankin discovered that we spend 75% of our time in oral communication. Of that time, approximately 45% is spent in listening and 30% of our time in speaking.
Using Ecri Techniques To Improve Reading Skills In Social Studies, Marie J. Arnold, Murray J. Ingraham
Using Ecri Techniques To Improve Reading Skills In Social Studies, Marie J. Arnold, Murray J. Ingraham
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Improving the reading skills of students is the responsibility of every content area teacher. Since too few secondary teachers are provided the techniques to further students' growth in reading, we looked for ways and programs which dealt with integrating reading in the subject area.
Skill-Referenced Instruction For Disabled Readers: Guidelines And Cautions, Catherine Morsink
Skill-Referenced Instruction For Disabled Readers: Guidelines And Cautions, Catherine Morsink
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Early in the development of learning disability programs, the terms reading disability and dyslexia were widely used to describe the problem of a child who had extreme difficulty in learning to decode printed words (Jastak and Jastak, 1965), despite conventional educational opportunity (Money, 1962) and apparent capacity to learn (Bateman, 1964). Reading disability was further distinguished from simple reading difficulty by its severity and its duration, with resultant need for highly specialized treat ment over a long period of time (Rabinovitch, 1962).
Reading In The Secondary School: How To Add To Your Vocabulary, Part Ii, Kenneth Vandermeulen
Reading In The Secondary School: How To Add To Your Vocabulary, Part Ii, Kenneth Vandermeulen
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
No abstract available.
We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke
We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Lucas, Christopher J . Challenge and Choice in Contemporary Education New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Pp. viii + 455.
Ten Second Reviews
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
No abstract available.
New Materials, Ron Crowell
New Materials, Ron Crowell
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
No abstract available.
Reading Horizons Vol. 17, No. 2
Reading Horizons Vol. 17, No. 2
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 17, issue 2.
Let's Leave No Stone Unturned, Patricia Thomas, Lee Mountain
Let's Leave No Stone Unturned, Patricia Thomas, Lee Mountain
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
What does a good remedial reading teacher do? Everything the teacher of a regular classroom does, only more in depth. Consider, for example, all that happens during a three-step lesson for a remedial reading group of nine-year-olds.