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New Humanities and Academic Disciplines

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449530
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book New Humanities and Academic Disciplines written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about social change as it is even now being revealed in the creation of a new field of learning, in an unprecedented setting, and for an as-yet-unknown cultural and intellectual purpose. It is about how a field of learning moves from one kind of institution to another, is practiced by new people (women, not only men, and outsiders as well as insiders), and for new purposes (secular, not only religious) and in new ways. Out of these minute particulars, in our imagination we may reconstruct the whole of modern history -- the universe out of a grain of sand. Perhaps no group in the past two hundred years of revolutionary change has moved so far, so fast, and in so many directions as the Jews.... from the Introduction

The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309470641
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.

New Humanities and Academic Disciplines

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book New Humanities and Academic Disciplines written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emerging Disciplines

Author : Melissa Bailar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892630370
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Disciplines written by Melissa Bailar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of the September 18, 2009, symposium, "Emerging disciplines," organized by Caroline Levander and Charles Henry, held at Rice University, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Rice University Humanities Research Center."

In Defense of Disciplines

Author : Jerry A. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606946X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Disciplines written by Jerry A. Jacobs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research and effective teaching, Jerry Jacobs contends that the promise of interdisciplinarity is illusory and that critiques of established disciplines are often overstated and misplaced. Drawing on diverse sources of data, Jacobs offers a new theory of liberal arts disciplines such as biology, economics, and history that identifies the organizational sources of their dynamism and breadth. Illustrating his thesis with a wide range of case studies including the diffusion of ideas between fields, the creation of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, and the rise of new fields that spin off from existing ones, Jacobs turns many of the criticisms of disciplines on their heads to mount a powerful defense of the enduring value of liberal arts disciplines. This will become one of the anchors of the case against interdisciplinarity for years to come.

Beyond the Disciplines

Author : K. K. Ruthven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780909897260
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Disciplines written by K. K. Ruthven and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the recent Theory Wars, the traditional Humanities have taken a battering from radical critiques of their methods and politics. In their place new types of knowledge are emerging as The New Humanities. Beyond the Disciplines is a stimulating and informative introduction to some of the New Humanities by some of the people who are poineering them.

A New History of the Humanities

Author : Rens Bod
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199665214
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book A New History of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Author : Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567508383
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities written by Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-01-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the flow of information within and among academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities through analyses of the patterns of scholarly book reviewing. An elite sample of scholarly monographs published by university presses between 1971 and 1990 was used. Beginning with Derek de Solla Price, the measurement of communication within the disciplines of science has been ongoing. In the present book that field of inquiry is summarized and provides a basis for examining the flow of information in the social sciences and humanities.

How to Respond in a Pandemic

Author : Joan Ferrante
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071835971
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book How to Respond in a Pandemic written by Joan Ferrante and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can an undergraduate college education prepare learners to cope with the current COVID-19 pandemic? This collection of short essays, written by experts in 25 academic fields of study, addresses this very question. Each chapter brings perspective and insight from that discipline, presenting one useful idea and a recommended course of action. This one-of-a-kind resource is ideal for students, instructors, and administrators, particularly during the 2020-2021-academic year when institutions are challenged to continue their educational missions in the midst of a public health crisis that affects every aspect of college life.

The Betrayal of the Humanities

Author : Bernard M. Levinson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025306080X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Betrayal of the Humanities written by Bernard M. Levinson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities details not only how individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism.

Research Assessment in the Humanities

Author : Michael Ochsner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319290169
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Research Assessment in the Humanities written by Michael Ochsner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for research performance meet strong opposition in the humanities. This volume combines the presentation of state-of-the-art projects on research assessments in the humanities by humanities scholars themselves with a description of the evaluation of humanities research in practice presented by research funders. Bibliometric issues concerning humanities research complete the exhaustive analysis of humanities research assessment. The selection of authors is well-balanced between humanities scholars, research funders, and researchers on higher education. Hence, the edited volume succeeds in painting a comprehensive picture of research evaluation in the humanities. This book is valuable to university and science policy makers, university administrators, research evaluators, bibliometricians as well as humanities scholars who seek expert knowledge in research evaluation in the humanities.

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

Author : Allen F. Repko
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506346901
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies written by Allen F. Repko and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to interdisciplinary studies with an approach that is succinct, conceptual, and practical. Completely updated to reflect advances in the literature on research, learning, and assessment, the book describes the role of both disciplines and interdisciplinarity within the academy, and how these have evolved. Authors Allen F. Repko, Rick Szostak, and Michelle Phillips Buchberger effectively show students how to think like interdisciplinarians in order to facilitate their working with topics, complex problems, or themes that span multiple disciplines.

Higher Education and the American Dream

Author : Marvin Lazerson
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9639776793
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education and the American Dream written by Marvin Lazerson and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvin Lazerson’s new book is exactly what is needed: a readable, cogent explanation of how the U.S. can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.” —Susan Fuhrman, President Teachers College, Columbia University, President of the National Academy of Education "In prose remarkable for its clarity and analysis remarkable for its fair-mindedness, this volume delivers a penetrating, nuanced account of American universities in the twenty-first century. Blessedly without rant or cant, the book tackles topics that range from the rise of the managerial class to the failed attempts to reform practice in the classroom. It’s a smart provocation—a must-read for anyone who cares about where our universities are heading.” —David L. Kirp, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education "Professor Lazerson gives an insightful account of American higher education based on years of study and first-hand experience. He discusses both the problems and the accomplishment of our universities with equal care and thus, succeeds in providing a useful and illuminating analysis.” —Derek Bok, Harvard University, President-emeritus "Marvin Lazerson’s magnificent book is not only comprehensive, but it is written from an all-embracing point of view: seeing higher education in America as an expression of the American Dream. This book should be on the reading list of all who want to understand America’s actions, role and image in the world today, with and equal emphasis on their successes and the discontents they create.” —Yehuda Elkana, Rector and President-emeritus, Central European University

The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

Author : Mrinal Miri
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
ISBN 13 : 9781138106383
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Place of Humanities in Our Universities written by Mrinal Miri and published by Routledge Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 2018 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the critical role of the humanities in universities in India and attempts to redefine its place, meaning and function in education. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the country, it debates the status and predicament of the humanities in the academic programmes within universities. The issues raised here touch upon the entire gamut of problems that a university faces in finding an adequate, rightful and wholesome place for the humanities in its academic curriculum. It discusses the difficulties in the specific identity of disciplines classed under the humanities, the powerful reach of the sciences and technological inroads in the teaching and practice of all disciplines, the relative academic balancing of disciplines in different universities in India, the culture, value and the idea of the university, digitisation of the humanities and online access and their specific impact on research in the concerned disciplines. The volume also presents an instructive debate on the so-called appropriation of traditional social science concerns by other departments. This book will interest those in education, humanities and social sciences, governance and public policy, and South Asian studies.

The Environmental Humanities

Author : Robert S. Emmett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262342308
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Humanities written by Robert S. Emmett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research, concrete examples, and case studies. Robert Emmett and David Nye show how humanists, by offering constructive knowledge as well as negative critique, can improve our understanding of such environmental problems as global warming, species extinction, and over-consumption of the earth's resources. They trace the genealogy of environmental humanities from European, Australian, and American initiatives, also showing its cross-pollination by postcolonial and feminist theories. Emmett and Nye consider a concept of place not synonymous with localism, the risks of ecotourism, and the cultivation of wild areas. They discuss the decoupling of energy use and progress, and point to OECD countries for examples of sustainable development. They explain the potential for science to do both good and harm, examine dark visions of planetary collapse, and describe more positive possibilities—alternative practices, including localization and degrowth. Finally, they examine the theoretical impact of new materialism, feminism, postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and queer ecology on the environmental humanities.

A New Deal for the Humanities

Author : Gordon Hutner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813573254
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book A New Deal for the Humanities written by Gordon Hutner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and where their neglect would be most damaging for the nation. The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. For instance, they deplore the push by administrations to narrow learning into quantifiable outcomes as well as the demands of state governments for more practical, usable training. Indeed, for those who suggest that a college education should be “practical”—that it should lean toward the sciences and engineering, where the high-paying jobs are—this book points out that while a few nations produce as many technicians as the United States does, America is still renowned worldwide for its innovation and creativity, skills taught most effectively in the humanities. Most importantly, the essays in this collection examine ways to make the humanities even more effective, such as offering a broader array of options than the traditional major/minor scheme, options that combine a student’s professional and intellectual interests, like the new medical humanities programs. A democracy can only be as energetic as the minds of its citizens, and the questions fundamental to the humanities are also fundamental to a thoughtful life. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities—and our citizens—even stronger in the future.

Humanities World Report 2015

Author : P. Holm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113750028X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Humanities World Report 2015 written by P. Holm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. The first of its kind, this Open Access 'Report' is a first step in assessing the state of the humanities worldwide. Based on an extensive literature review and enlightening interviews the book discusses the value of the humanities, the nature of humanities research and the relation between humanities and politics, amongst other issues.