Title: The humanities in American life :
Authors: Commission on the Humanities (1978- )
Date: 1980
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC class: A
Abstract: This report of the Commission on the Humanities, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, assesses the state of the humanities at the beginning of the 1980s. 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.