NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION GRANTS INCLUDING
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college
faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and
learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and
other areas of the humanities. The Education Development and
Demonstration Program offers the following programs:
--Humanities Focus Grants
Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with
colleagues from your school building, school district, college or
university
Work with humanities scholars
Application deadlines: September 16, 1996 and April 18, 1997
Funding available: up to $25,000
--Materials Development Projects
Develop educational materials for national dissemination
Application deadline: October 1, 1996
Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years
--Curricular Development and Demonstration Projects
Design a humanities study project for teachers or college faculty
Join with scholars from nearby colleges, universities, museums, and other
cultural organizations to promote an ongoing academic partnership
Prepare model courses or curricula
Application deadline: October 1, 1996
Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years
--Dissemination and Diffusion Projects
Share information on exemplary projects in humanities education through
national conferences, workshops, and networks
Application deadline: October 1, 1996
Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years
TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY is a special NEH initiative to support projects that
use today's rapidly evolving information technologies to improve
teaching and learning in the humanities. Proposals may be submitted
for all categories and deadlines.
For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about
developing a project, please write or call:
Education Development and Demonstration
Division of Research and Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20506
Phone: 202/606-8380
FAX: 202/606-8394
e-mail: education@neh.fed.us
TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282
Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web
site: http://www.neh.fed.us (under *EDD Guidelines*)
Jennifer Serventi
jserventi@neh.fed.us