The Changing Humanities
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Author | : Dennis Ahlburg |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2018-07-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351996851 |
Over the last decade, a heated debate has raged in the US and the UK over whether the humanities are in crisis, and, if there is one, what form this crisis takes and what the response should be. Questioning how there can be such disagreement over a fundamental point, The Changing Face of Higher Education explores this debate, asking whether the humanities are in crisis after all by objectively evaluating the evidence at hand, and opening the debate up to a global scale by applying the questions to twelve countries from different continents. Each carefully chosen contributor considers the debate from the perspective of a different country. The chapters present data on funding, student enrolment in the humanities, whether the share of total enrolment in this area is falling, and answer the following questions: What does each country mean by the ‘humanities’? Is there a ‘crisis’ in the humanities in this country? What are the causes for the crisis? What are the implications for the humanities disciplines? Uniquely offering an objective evaluation of whether this crisis exists, the book will appeal to international humanities and higher education communities and policy-makers, including postgraduate students and academics.
Author | : Stephen Siperstein |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317423232 |
Climate change is an enormous and increasingly urgent issue. This important book highlights how humanities disciplines can mobilize the creative and critical power of students, teachers, and communities to confront climate change. The book is divided into four clear sections to help readers integrate climate change into the classes and topics they are already teaching as well as engage with interdisciplinary methods and techniques. Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities constitutes a map and toolkit for anyone who wishes to draw upon the strengths of literary and cultural studies to teach valuable lessons that engage with climate change.
Author | : Julie Thompson Klein |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791482677 |
The study of culture in the American academy is not confined to a single field, but is a broad-based set of interests located within and across disciplines. This book investigates the relationship among three major ideas in the American academy—interdisciplinarity, humanities, and culture—and traces the convergence of these ideas from the colonial college to new scholarly developments in the latter half of the twentieth century. Its aim is twofold: to define the changing relationship of these three ideas and, in the course of doing so, to extend present thinking about the concept of "American cultural studies." The book includes two sets of case studies—the first on the implications of interdisciplinarity for literary studies, art history, and music; the second on the shifting trajectories of American studies, African American studies, and women's studies—and concludes by asking what impact new scholarly practices have had on humanities education, particularly on the undergraduate curriculum.
Author | : Ruth Ahnert |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108856691 |
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer science and related scientific fields. But arts and humanities scholars are increasingly using the same kinds of visual and quantitative analysis to shed light on aspects of culture and society hitherto concealed. This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. Moreover, we are at a moment in time when it is crucial that arts and humanities scholars join the critique of how large-scale network data and advanced network analysis are being harnessed for the purposes of power, surveillance, and commercial gain. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : David Harrison Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Carolyn Merchant |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300244231 |
A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene first proposed by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in their foundational 2000 paper. It undertakes a broad investigation into the ways in which science, technology, and the humanities can create a new and compelling awareness of human impacts on the environment. Using history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, and justice as the focal points, Merchant traces key figures and developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era and explores how these disciplines might influence sustainability in the next century. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book from an eminent scholar in environmental history and philosophy argues for replacing the Age of the Anthropocene with a new Age of Sustainability.
Author | : Robin Satterwhite |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781524930318 |
Author | : Robin Satterwhite |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781465296610 |
Humanities, Society and Technology: Living with Change
Author | : Alexander Elliott |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1137551240 |
This volume of essays fills a lacunae in the current climate change debate by bringing new perspectives on the role of humanities scholars within this debate. The humanities have historically played an important role in the various debates on environment, climate and society. The past two decades especially have seen a resurfacing of these environmental concerns across humanities disciplines in the wake of what has been termed climate change. This book argues that these disciplines should be more confident and vocal in responding to climate change while questioning the way in which the climate change debate is currently being conducted in academic, political and social arenas. Addressing climate change through the varied approaches of the humanities means re-thinking and re-evaluating its fundamental assumptions and responses to perceived crisis through the lens of history, philosophy and literature. The volume aims thus to be a catalyst for emerging scholarship in this field and to appeal to an academic and popular readership.
Author | : Rens Bod |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0199665214 |
Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.