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The humanities in American life : report of the Commission on the Humanities.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Commission on the Humanities (1978- ).
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanities.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 192 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1980]
- Summary:
- This report of the Commission on the Humanities, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, assesses the state of the humanities at the beginning of the 1980's. The commission examines education, cultural instructions, and public and private funding for the humanities, and concludes that the humanities need rethinking as much as financial support.
- Contents:
- The humanities in America : Domains of the humanities
- Priorities and recommendations
- The humanities in schools : Educational policy
- Curriculum beyond the basics
- Teaching
- School and college collaboration
- The humanities and higher education : Undergraduate education
- Graduate education for the professions
- Graduate training in the humanities
- Research and scholarship
- The humanities in community and private life : Educational institutions
- Cultural institutions
- Media
- Support for the humanities : Problems of support
- Sources of support.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780585301693
- 0585301697
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