Contemporary Themes in Humanities Higher Education

by Chambers, Ellie

• ISBN13: 9780792366942
• ISBN10: 0792366948
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book is dedicated to the teaching and study of the enduringly popular Humanities in our colleges and universities. It aims to help unite humanities educators at a time of profound change in education systems worldwide - offering a modern theory of our particular purposes, teaching methods and styles. Drawing on detailed case studies, it is also designed to make a modernising impact upon practice. The book's themes include Critical Humanism and a new model for the humanities: 'The Other'/tradition and modern consciousness; widening participation in humanities education; globalisation and humanities teaching in Europe; the new technologies, their uses and impact; and the value and conduct of pedagogic research. If you are a teacher of any humanities subject, a researcher into the teaching-learning of the humanities or involved in staff development, if you are a further and higher education policy maker or administrator, this book is for you.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Critical Humanism	1	(20)
Ellie Chambers
Humanities Higher Education: New Models, New Challenges	21	(24)
Jan Parker
Critical Humanism in Action	45	(20)
Lorna Hardwick
Access, Distance Education and the Humanities	65	(22)
Ellie Chambers
Martin Robb
Collaborative Approaches to Humanities Teaching in Europe	87	(20)
Kevin Wilson
The Death of the Book? Textual Computing...	107	(18)
Marilyn Deegan
C&IT in the Humanities	125	(28)
Simon Rae
Research into Teaching and Learning: Beginning Philosophy	153	(28)
Ellie Chambers
Index	181