Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical examples and experiences from the classroom, the book contributes with a multiplicity of knowledge to the growing appetite for interdisciplinary initiatives at universities....Lasīt vairāk
In this book the author directly confronts an ever more popular suspicion - that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is actually an elitist indoctrination into leftist or liberal views....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1992, this book was the first to gather together the view of industrialists, teachers and researchers. It focusses on the skills dimension of arts graduates which carry significant implication for all undergraduate programmes...Lasīt vairāk
A survey of the trajectory of research in literature, history, sociology, and economics over the past century, as well as the values, priorities and agendas of the modern research university, this book argues that in spite of its wealth, power and s...Lasīt vairāk
Interdiscipline is not just a defence of literature and the humanities; it offers a clear and inspiring pathway forwards, drawing on all disciplines to show their cultural and social significance. The book is important reading for all scholars of li...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our cultures standards of productivity, busyness, and speed....Lasīt vairāk
As the digital continues to impact and infiltrate the humanities, Doing More Digital Humanities provides practical information on how to do digital humanities work...Lasīt vairāk
Incorporating Foreign Language Content in Humanities Courses introduces innovative ways to integrate aspects of foreign language study into courses containing humanities concepts....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In Challenging Theory , Catherine Burgass warns against the recent trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural st...Lasīt vairāk
The result of an empirical study, this book illuatrates that business schools practicing linking management education to the humanities and social sciences can significantly help management education with meeting the challenges of the 21st century....Lasīt vairāk
The Changing Face of Higher Education explores whether the humanities are in crisis, what form that crisis takes, and what the responses should be. Examinging the state of the humanities in ten countries, this book disectes the claim that there is a...Lasīt vairāk
Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course critiques the problematic reliance on humanism that pervades online education and the MOOC, and explores theoretical frameworks that look beyond these limitations....Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces the elements of TBL and how to apply them in the social sciences and humanities.The core of the book consists of examples of how TBL has been incorporated into the cultures of disciplines as varied as economics, education, liter...Lasīt vairāk
This polemic account provides a fresh perspective on the importance of Creative Writing to the emergence of the new humanities and makes a major contribution to current debates about the role of the writer as public intellectual....Lasīt vairāk
This provocative look inside the ivory tower is required reading for anyone who thinks he or she knows whats at stake in the modern university....Lasīt vairāk
