Value and the Humanities

Value and the Humanities
Author: Zoe Hope Bulaitis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030378926

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market.

The many lives of corruption

The many lives of corruption
Author: Ian Cawood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526150026

How has corruption shaped – and undermined – the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal government during the twentieth century. It offers the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms and the shifting meanings of ‘corruption’. It does so across a range of different sites – electoral, political and administrative, domestic and colonial – presenting new research on neglected areas of reform, while revisiting well known scandals and corrupt practices.

The Academy in Crisis

The Academy in Crisis
Author: John Sommer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351486438

The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities.

Robert Lowe and Education

Robert Lowe and Education
Author: David William Sylvester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521133739

Mr Sylvester assesses Robert Lowe's (1811-1892) career and political importance.

Democracy and Religion

Democracy and Religion
Author: J. P. Parry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1989-03-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521367837

An account of how the various religious and educational issues tackled by politicians led to the fall of Gladstone's first liberal party government in 1874 and to an identity crisis for British Liberalism.