The main concern of this book on the teaching of literature is the complex dynamics of personal responses to reading. The first part details some of the problems of the teacher and the student in approaching the literary experience. Part 2 takes up the necessary background and setting for spontaneous reactions to literature, the effects of the…

An enumerated, comprehensive 12,087-item bibliography of publications on French language and literature with current prices is offered primarily for school and library use. In each of the eight major divisions the author is listed alphabetically with the exception of the Middle Ages, where literary genre classification is employed. The…

This bibliography, a supplement to the 1967 catalog of 2,400 items of Spanish culture and language, includes 4,165 listings and additional categories in: (1) Spanish and Latin American authors, (2) Spanish translations of international authors, (3) fiction-library selections, (4) anthologies-complete works, (5) individual author collections, (6)…

The main purpose of this paper is to examine recurring themes which emerge from past federal programs in early education and to identify potential areas where critical historical research is necessary. The author, after a brief survey of federal involvement in early education from 1933 to 1973, suggests that the historical perspective might…

Assembled to aid high school literature teachers in exploring the epic with their students, materials in this book approach the epic as a product of a specific culture which presents vivid pictures of earlier societies. Following the introduction and the opening essay, "The Role of the Supernatural in the Epic," chapters are grouped under the…

The papers contained in this volume offer the opinions and evidence of sixteen specialists on matters pertaining to literature for children and adolescents--the writing of literature, the selection of literature, and the role of literature in reading instruction. Taken together, they cover a wide range of grade levels and represent many points of…

This study of English instruction in Great Britain concentrates on the changes in the last seventy years at the junior and secondary school levels. The author states that a long-term perspective on the study of English-teaching methodology is needed so that poor teaching habits will not be perpetuated and good ones will be encouraged. Relying on…

This analysis of aesthetic appreciation provides a theoretical model to help teachers recognize the aesthetic level at which students are operating. The purpose of the study is to explain to art educators how to expand a student's capacity to appreciate works of art. The study is presented in two parts. Part I describes and evaluates theories of…

Expatriate characters in six post-independence African novels are disillusioned by the nasty weather, negative racial attitudes, declining morality, and rigid social structure they find in the Western world. Their loneliness in the West ironically becomes a source of African nationalism. (BJV)

Discusses President Reagan's televised address following the space shuttle tragedy and the unique rhetorical demands of the situation. Examines how generic constraints that establish commonalities among all eulogies are interwoven with the responses to the specific needs of a nation in crisis. (NKA)

Describes the humanities curriculum at the North Carolina Governor's School which focuses on two courses of study: (1) one of ten academic disciplines (art, choral music, dance, drama , English, foreign language, instrumental music, math, natural science, social science), and (2) foundations in epistemology. (SRT)

An American instructor taught a 5-week course on the family in American drama to a group of graduate English majors on the campus of Hebei Teachers' University in the People's Republic of China. The instructor learned as much about Chinese culture as the students learned about American culture. Lecture is the standard pedagogy even in graduate…

This paper critically reviews the book, "My Heart Is On the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, 1800." The review begins with a profile of Captain Richard Henry Pratt who founded the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian Industrial School in 1879. Pratt's philosophy was to "kill the Indian and…

This collection of four essays examines the ways in which biology, as a discipline, reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Natural Sciences: Molecular Biology," Bonnie B. Spanier examines common ideological distortions in biology, including superimposing stereotypical gender attributes…

This essay examines the ways in which psychology, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. Noting that feminist psychologists have challenged the assumption that psychological science is value-free, it cites ways in which values have affected psychological theory and method. The view that men's behavior is…