Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – The Humanities in Crisis: What Went Wrong and How to Restore Their Centrality in our Daily Lives (pp. 1-24)
Diana Sheets (English and History Departments, iFoundry Fellow University of Illinois, IL, US)
Chapter 2 – Humanities Education and the Gifted (pp. 25-44)
Steven I. Pfeiffer and Jordan Burko (Florida State University, FL, US)
Chapter 3 – Oh, the Humanities!‖: Socrates, Aristotle, Dilbert and Humanistic Education in Engineering at the University of Illinois (pp. 45-66)
Karen K. Hyman (Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, University of Illinois. College of Engineering, IL, US)
Chapter 4 – Music As Part of the General Education Humanities Curriculum (pp. 67-78)
Tracy Carr (Eastern New Mexico University, NM, US)
Chapter 5 – The Fundamental Things Apply (pp. 79-88)
Bruce Gans (Chicago, IL, US)
Chapter 6 – The Best Argument for the Humanities (pp. 89-98)
Mark Bauerlein (Emory University, GA, US)
Chapter 7 – 1066 Isn‘t All That: Determining What Is Necessary to Teach About History and Its Relationship to the Humanities (pp. 99-110)
Donald C. Elder III (Eastern New Mexico University, IL, US)
Chapter 8 – Cultivating Critical and Creative Thinking and Visual Literacy through Contemporary Art Practice (pp. 111-122)
Jeanne Nemeth (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN, US)
Chapter 9 – The Measure of a Man: Science Fiction and the Humanities (pp. 123-132)
Patrice Caldwell and Betty Williamson (Eastern New Mexico University, NM, US)
Chapter 10 – Teaching Mathematics As Religion: Implications for the Humanities (pp. 133-140)
Colin Hannaford (Oxford, England)
Chapter 11 – Multicultural Education and the Humanities (pp. 141-154)
Geni Flores (Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM, US)
Chapter 12 – The High School History Term Paper As an Introduction to the Humanities and Academic Rigor and Excellence (pp. 155-160)
Michael F. Shaughnessy (Eastern New Mexico University, NM, US)
Index
