Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309470641
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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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.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725212579
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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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
Author: J. Gottschall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230615597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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Author: Rens Bod
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199665214
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.
Author: Melissa Bailar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892630370
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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"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."
Author: Helen Small
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199683867
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities.
Author: Zev Garber
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761815525
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Book Description
Fourteen scholars and master teachers explore the challenges of teaching Jewish studies at American schools of higher education.
Author: K. K. Ruthven
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909897260
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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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.
Author: Brett D. Hirsch
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1909254258
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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"The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions." (4e de couverture).
