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The Humanities

A Teacher's Guide to Key Concepts and Enduring Questions

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The Humanities

A Teacher's Guide to Key Concepts and Enduring Questions

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The Humanities: A Guide to Key Concepts and Enduring Questions is written for teachers seeking fresh ways to bring the humanities into their classrooms. Drawing on philosophy, religion, history, languages, literature, music, dance, photography, and film, each chapter explores enduring questions within a discipline while offering insights teachers can adapt into lessons, discussions, and projects. This book equips teachers to help students think critically and creatively about the issues that continue to shape the human experience.

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Table of Contents

The Humanities-A Guide to Key Concepts and Enduring Questions
Preface
Introduction Why the Humanities?
Chapter One Philosophy-Making Sense of Ourselves in the World
Chapter Two Religion-Understanding the Divine and Sacred Writings
Interlude 1 Some Types of Religion
Chapter Three History-Making Sense of the Past in the Present
Interlude 2 Languages and History
Chapter Four Languages-Communicating with Others Around the World
Interlude 3 Invented Languages
Chapter Five Literature-Recreating Experience in Language and Form
Chapter Six Film-Exploring Aspects of Life Through Moving Images
Interlude 4 Some Notes on Photography
Chapter Seven Music-Connecting with Others Through Sound and Rhythm
Interlude 5 Music, Language, and Meaning
Chapter Eight Dance-Expressing the Self Through Movement and Gesture
Appendix How to Read Great Books
References
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Sep 03 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 264
ISBN 9798216443834
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Robert DiYanni

Robert DiYanni is Professor of Humanities at New Y…

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