Program

Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

6/1/1972 - 5/31/1973

Funding Totals

$35,000.00 (approved)
$35,000.00 (awarded)


The Development of Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline in Two-Year Colleges

FAIN: EH-10176-72

St. Louis Community College (St. Louis, MO 63110)
Malkom G. Jackoway (Project Director: June 1972 to present)

A one year study of the actual role of philosophy in the curricula of two-year colleges and of the possibilities for an enhancement of this role. Ten regional and state conferences of philosophers presently teaching in two-year colleges to discuss teaching problems; six meetings of a committere to draw up a position paper on the role of philosophy in two-year institutions, with appendices sketching particularly successful curricula.