The Value of the Humanities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Value of the Humanities write by Helen Small. This book was released on 2013-10-03. The Value of the Humanities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Humanities World Report 2015
Humanities World Report 2015 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanities World Report 2015 write by P. Holm. This book was released on 2014-11-24. Humanities World Report 2015 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Value and the Humanities
Value and the Humanities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Value and the Humanities write by Zoe Hope Bulaitis. This book was released on 2020-06-19. Value and the Humanities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Not for Profit
Not for Profit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not for Profit write by Martha C. Nussbaum. This book was released on 2016-11-08. Not for Profit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world. In a new preface, Nussbaum explores the current state of humanistic education globally and shows why the crisis of the humanities has far from abated. Translated into over twenty languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troubling—and hopeful—global educational developments. Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education.
What Are We Doing Here?
What Are We Doing Here? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Are We Doing Here? write by Marilynne Robinson. This book was released on 2018-02-20. What Are We Doing Here? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”
