Historical June 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
One-half to two-thirds of a child’s day is spent at school, five days a week. Have you ever wanted to know more about your child’s intellectual growth there? Are classes helping or hindering the development of values, of self-expression, of a sense of community? Neighborhood School will sponsor an afternoon seminar at Delmar Baptist Church, Saturday, June 7, 2-4 p.m., “BEYOND THE BASICS: The Importance of the Humanities in Neighborhood Elementary Schools,” partially funded by a grant from the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, Inc., the state-based arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Five neighborhood humanists (Otis Bolden, Jim Hitchcock. Michael Lowenstein. Barbara Schmidt, and Dan Shea) will lead a neighborhood forum on the humanities curricula (literature, history, and social studies) of urban primary schools. Building upon the foundation of last spring’s three articles published in The Paper and written by Lowenstein, Schmidt and Shea, the June 7th forum will bring together the academics and the community to discuss such questions as: “How can the humanities educate children for citizenship?” (Dan Shea); “Is the ‘back-to-basics’ movement accelerating the turning of people into robots?” (Barb Schmidt); “How can the humanities be used in the classroom to further the aims of school desegregation?” (Michael Lowenstein); “In order to understand the world of today, do children need to know more about the world of yesterday?” (Jim Hitchcock); “Can the humanities be a way of teaching broadly American values and ideals as well as ethnic or cultural awareness?” (Otis Bolden).
This project promises to further enrich our neighborhood.
The Forum is free and open to all residents.
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Original invitation: Beyond the Basics, June 7, 1980, Delmar Baptist Church. The Paper, June 1980, page 2.
Originally published in The Paper, June 1980.
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