Historical March 1979 report or notice. Dates, prices, programs, contacts and any regulatory statements refer to the original period; current availability or applicability is not established.
The Neighborhood School received a Communications Enrichment grant from the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, Inc., a state based arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to publish three articles in The Paper by university level scholars. The article appearing in this issue by Michael Lowenstein is the first of the series which is entitled, “Beyond the Three R’s: the Role of the Humanities in Neighborhood Schools.” The second article will appear in the April issue and the third will appear in the May issue.
These articles will focus on humanitiesrelated classes, (English, and History, for example) in urban elementary schools such as the many which exist in our neighborhood. Humanities-related classes teach children the tools to make sense of the perpetual bombardment of fragmented information and disordered experience, and form, along with math and writing classes the core of an elementary education. This series will explore some aspects of this first area of learning and will touch on its relationship with the others.
In the first article, Michael Lowenstein, associate professor and chairperson of the literature department Harris-Stowe College, will focus on the formative influence of literature on the development of the child. In the second article Daniel Shae, professor and chairperson of the English Department, Washington University, will discuss the possible effect of the current shift in emphasis towards a supposedly more practide education. In the third article Barbara Schmidt, associate professor in the literature department. SIU Edwardsville, will offer some suggestions for a more affective education in humanities-related subjects.
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or of the Missouri Committee for the Humanities.
Originally published in The Paper, March 1979.
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Archival transcription note: Daniel Shae printed spelling retained; no identity correction inferred.
Original source: SD_Times1979_03.pdf, printed page(s) 5; PDF page(s) 5.
