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2. Navigating Controversial Topics in Required Diversity Courses
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Ryan A. Miller, Laura Struve, Morgan Murray, and Alex Tompkins
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Required undergraduate diversity courses often expose students to topics and worldviews which may push them out of their comfort zones and prompt dissonance and even resistance. This paper reports on interviews with 68 faculty members across 16 humanities and social science disciplines at five predominantly white institutions in the Southern United States, detailing how they navigated discussion of controversial topics in required diversity courses. Most instructors aimed to expose students to critical social issues yet were concerned that resistance could disturb the learning process. We identified 20 unique strategies for handling controversial topics in class that included proactively establishing community and safety and normalizing conflict, and reactively acknowledging and surfacing multiple perspectives, as well as connecting content to students' lived experiences. Some instructors also reported a lack of controversy or conflict in their classrooms, which they variously attributed to student characteristics or their own disinclination to promote heated discussion - which, we argue, calls into question the breadth and criteria of many institutionally defined diversity course requirements. We conclude the paper with implications for faculty, educational developers, administrators, and institutions.
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- 2024
3. From Classroom to Community: Enhancing Undergraduate Research through an Interdisciplinary Cohort Model
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Renato Fakhoury and Emma Peterson
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While scholars have found that undergraduate involvement in research is beneficial, the lack of such experiences in the social sciences and humanities is glaring. This paper analyzes how an emphasis on community through cohort models impacts undergraduate student experience in research, taking from the Emerging Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary research program where cohorts of undergraduates are matched with faculty and attend meetings, workshops, and presentations together. We find that the cohort model created a robust community that fosters positive relationships that develop professional skills and emotional support, allowing students to collaborate and aim more toward their professional goals. The results from this study offer valuable insights into how universities can ensure that students have meaningful research experience beyond the classroom.
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- 2024
4. Academic Disciplines and the Undergraduate Experience: Rethinking Bok's 'Underachieving Colleges' Thesis. SERU Project and Consortium Research Paper. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.6.11
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University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education, Brint, Steven, and Cantwell, Allison M.
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Using data from the 2008 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, we show that study time and academic conscientiousness were lower among students in humanities and social science majors than among students in science and engineering majors. Analytical and critical thinking experiences were no more evident among humanities and social sciences majors than among science and engineering majors. All three academically beneficial experiences were, however, strongly related to participation in class and interaction with instructors, and participation was more common among humanities and social sciences students than among science and engineering students. Bok's (2006) influential discussion of "underachievement" in undergraduate education focused on institutional performance. Our findings indicate that future discussions should take into account differences among disciplinary categories and majors as well. (Contains 4 tables and 13 footnotes.)
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- 2011
5. Can Online Learning Reproduce the Full College Experience? Center for Policy Innovation Discussion Paper. Number 3
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Heritage Foundation and McKeown, Karen D.
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With the tuition cost of traditional colleges and universities soaring and education technology advancing, online courses and degree programs are becoming more common. Some critics argue that an online degree cannot provide all the important features of a traditional college education, from extracurricular activities to new professional networks, but the evidence disputes much of that criticism, especially for certain groups of students. Indeed, some aspects of online education may provide a better experience than a traditional brick-and-mortar college for some students. (Contains 49 footnotes.)
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- 2012
6. Professors on the Production Line, Students on Their Own. Working Paper 2009-01
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Bauerlein, Mark
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In higher education in the United States, teaching and research in the fields of language and literature are in a desperate condition. Laboring on the age-old axiom "publish-or-perish," thousands of professors, lecturers, and graduate students are busy producing dissertations, books, essays, and reviews. Over the past five decades, their collective productivity has risen from 13,000 to 72,000 publications per year. But the audience for language and literature scholarship has diminished, with unit sales for books now hovering around 300. At the same time, the relations between teachers and students have declined. While 43 percent of two-year public college students and 29 percent of four-year public college students require remedial coursework, costing $2 billion annually, one national survey reports that 37 percent of first-year arts/humanities students "never" discuss course readings with teachers outside of class, and 41 percent only do so "sometimes." These trends are not unrelated. Academic engagement on the part of students is a reflection of how much teachers demand it. But with the research mandate hovering over them, teachers have no incentive to push it. If the system favors publication, not mentoring, hours in the office in conversation with sophomores are counter-productive or even damaging to career and livelihood. Universities need to reconsider the relative value placed on research and teaching in the evaluation of professors. This paper offers several recommendations, including limiting the amount of material that tenure committees will review and creating a "teacher track" in which doctoral students are trained and rewarded for generalist knowledge and multiple course facility rather than a highly-specialized expertise. A bibliography is included. (Contains 52 endnotes.)
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- 2009
7. Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship Report and Reader Survey: ACLS Humanities E-Book. White Paper No. 3
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American Council of Learned Societies and Gielen, Nina
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This report describes a conversion experiment and subsequent reader survey conducted by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book (HEB) in late 2009 and early 2010 to assess the viability of using scholarly monographs with handheld e-readers. As sample content, HEB selected six titles from its own online collection, three in a page-image format with existing OCR (optical character recognition)-derived text and three encoded as XML files, and had these converted by an outside vendor with minimal editorial intervention into both MOBI (prc) and ePub files. During its in-house assessment phase, HEB experienced some navigational difficulty with both formats and found that annotation and other interaction with the text was difficult using a number of popular e-readers. HEB also found the XML titles to be of limited functionality in the MOBI format and therefore opted not to further poll readers on this subset. About 88% of the 142 survey participants expressed overall satisfaction with the appearance and functionality of the three remaining handheld samples, although roughly half reported some level of frustration with the search function using either format, and only 26% felt they would have an easy time citing and referencing these editions. Satisfaction with other interactive features, such as adding notes, bookmarking and highlighting, was noticeably higher; however, the "n/a" option was also selected frequently for these categories, and it appears that a large number of participants were unable to perform the tasks in question due to confusing or insufficient instructions from the device manufacturer. As formats evolve, future satisfaction with these features may increase. Irrespective of specific limitations, 75% of participants were interested in potentially downloading additional similar titles for free or if priced below $10. HEB's initial findings in this study indicate that titles formatted for existing handheld devices are not yet adequate for scholarly use in terms of replicating either the benefits of online collections--cross-searchability, archiving, multifarious interactive components--nor certain aspects of print editions that users reported missing, such as being able to mark up and rapidly skim text. A turnaround is underway once a common and more robust format optimized for handheld readers is determined and devices themselves evolve, adding improved display options and better and more intuitive web-access, searching and other interactive use of content. Survey Results is appended. (Contains 30 footnotes.)
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- 2010
8. The Idea and Ideals of the University: A Panel Session of the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies. ACLS Occasional Paper No. 63
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American Council of Learned Societies and American Council of Learned Societies
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In 1918, just one year before the founding of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Thorstein Veblin wrote, "In one shape or another, this problem of adjustment, reconciliation or compromise between the needs of higher learning and the demands of the business enterprise is forever present in the deliberations of the university directorate." In the early twenty-first century, forces in the political economy of higher education may be making that reconciliation even more difficult and straining academic ideals. Many see within the changes in the teaching force a transformed conception of the social role of the university. No longer conceived as a public good, the university is thought of as providing private individual goods to its students. In this view, a private, profit-making university may provide the most efficient service. The essays in this volume began as presentations in a panel session on "The Idea and Ideals of the University" at the 2004 ACLS Annual Meeting. Concern about the corporate culture defining the university invites scholars to reflect about the ideas and values that have traditionally constituted the university, evoking the questions discussed by panel participants: What is the role of the learned societies, of scholars, and of academic leaders in defining and interpreting the ethical components of a shared vision of the twenty-first-century academy? To what degree does the case for the university's autonomy carry a concomitant obligation for it to be self-policing? What will be the role of digital technology? Following an introduction (Rebecca Chopp), four essays are included: (1) Key Issues Currently Facing American Higher Education (Ronald G. Ehrenberg); (2) Humanities in the University: Retrospect and Prospect (Andrew Delbanco); (3) The Humanities: A Technical Profession (Alan Liu); and (4) What Do I Really Think About the Corporate University? (Catharine R. Stimpson). (Essays are noted and figured individually.)
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- 2007
9. Liberal Arts Colleges in American Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities. ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 59
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American Council of Learned Societies
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This American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Occasional Paper presents the proceedings of a conference on "Liberal Arts Colleges in American Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities" convened by ACLS in November 2003 in Williamstown, Massachusetts with the support of the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College and the collaboration of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Eighteen speakers on five panels focused on historical perspectives, fiscal pressures, professional life, student achievement, and the future of liberal arts colleges. The frame of the Williamstown conference encompassed questions of faculty development and scholarly formation, but widened to include also the relationship between intellectual mission and economic constraints of the college-university, the history of these institutions, and their distinctive effectiveness in undergraduate education. The papers delivered were revised following discussion and an additional entry, Michael McPherson's, was solicited for this volume. Including Dr. McPherson, ten current or former college presidents participated in this discussion. The Introduction is presented by Pauline Yu while the Prologue, entitled "The Liberal Arts College: Identity, Variety, Destiny," is provided by Francis Oakley. The volume divides into three sections. Section I, "The Past: The Liberal Arts Mission in Historical Context," contains these papers: (1) Balancing Hopes and Limits in the Liberal Arts College (Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz); and (2) The Problem of Mission: A Brief Survey of the Changing Mission of the Liberal Arts (Christina Elliott Sorum). Section II, "The Present: Economic Pressures/Teaching, Research, and Professional Life/Educational Goals and Student Achievement," contains these papers: (3) The Economic Challenges of Liberal Arts Colleges (Lucie Lapovsky); (4) Discounts and Spending at the Leading Liberal Arts Colleges (Roger T. Kaufman); (5) Scholars and Teachers Revisited: In Continued Defense of College Faculty Who Publish (Robert A. McCaughey); (6) Beyond the Circle: Challenges and Opportunities for the Contemporary Liberal Arts Teacher-Scholar (Kimberly Benston); (7) Built To Engage: Liberal Arts Colleges and Effective Educational Practice (George D. Kuh); and (8) Selective and Non-Selective Alike: An Argument for the Superior Educational Effectiveness of Smaller Liberal Arts Colleges (Richard Ekman). Section III, "The Future: Five Presidents on the Challenge Lying Ahead," contains these papers: (9) The Challenges Facing Public Liberal Arts Colleges (Mary K. Grant); (10) The Importance of Institutional Culture (Stephen R. Lewis); (11) The Future Ain't What It Used to Be (Michele Tolela Myers); (12) A Story Untold and Questions Unasked (David H. Porter); and (13) Liberal Arts Education at Large Research Universities and at Small Liberal Arts Colleges (Morton Owen Schapiro). Responses to articles in sections I and II are presented by Stephen Fix, Michael S. McPherson, Kenneth P. Ruscio, and Mitchell J. Chang. (Contains 23 figures, 3 tables, and 157 notes.)
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- 2005
10. Council of Ontario Universities Working Paper Series, 2001-2002.
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Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto., Forcese, Dennis, Oosthuizen, Patrick, and Aubrey, Jocelyn B.
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Papers in this volume are the first working papers produced by the Council of Ontario Universities. Issue 1, "The Role and State of Ontario Graduate Education" by Dennis Forcese, advocates the reinforcement of graduate education in Ontario institutions to maintain the overall quality of the institutions and to secure the future. The paper outlines the important, and often overlooked, contributions that graduate students make to the university community in terms of teaching and research assistance, original research, and their potential role as faculty. Issue 2, "Increased Integration of Programs in Engineering and the Humanities" by Patrick Oosthuizen, addresses the need to produce graduates who have a sound understanding of the impact of technology on society and presents some practical models for increasing interaction between humanities and engineering graduates. The third issue, "The Liberal Arts and Sciences Baccalaureate Degree: Are 15 Credits Enough?" by Jocelyn B. Aubrey, questions whether a 3-year program can provide graduate with a reasonable knowledge base in the chosen discipline. The discussion outlines some of the key issues in deciding whether to keep the 3-year degree. Guidelines for the university sector under the Ontarians with Disabilities Act is attached to the working papers collection. (SLD)
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- 2002
11. ICCE/ICCAI 2000 Full & Short Papers (Humanities and Learning Technology).
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This document contains the following full and short papers on humanities and learning technology from ICCE/ICCAI 2000 (International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction): (1) "A Web-Based EFL Writing Environment: Integrating Information for Learners, Teachers, and Researchers" (David Wible, Chin-Hwa Kuo, Anne Liu, and Nai-Lung Tsao); (2) "Integrating Web-Based Materials into Course Design" (Lilly Lee Chen); (3) "Is Everyone on Board: Learning Styles and the Internet" (Michelle Hsiang, Ellen Storey Vasu, Marsha Alibrand, Nancy Atkins, and Jane Steelman); (4) "Research on Teaching Da-Yi Chinese Keyboarding by Using Adaptive Input Interface" (Ming-Chung Chen, Hwa-Pey Wang, and Lih-Ching Chen Wang); (5) "Strategies for Searching in the WWW" (Meng-Jung Tsai); (5) "The Internet-Based Educational Resources of the U.S. Federal Government" (Andy Wang and Krishelle Leong-Grotz); and (6) "Which Chinese Input Methods Is More Suitable for Sixth-Grade Pupils? Keyboarding or Non-Keyboarding" (Weichung Wang and Tainshu Ma). (MES)
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- 2000
12. Effects of Graduate Education on Initial Employment: Evidence from New Graduates in the Japanese Labor Market
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Hirao, Tomotaka
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This paper replicates models developed by previous research to study the effects of graduate education on new graduates' initial employment in the Japanese labor market. If education is the best investment for an individual's economic success, then graduate degrees are expected to provide an individual with higher-earning job opportunities. Despite this reasonable economic premise, previous research showed that master's degrees in the humanities or social sciences in Japan have, in fact, a negative impact on obtaining initial employment compared to those with only a bachelor's degree in the humanities or social sciences. This previous research, however, could not overcome omitted variable bias because of data limitations. Omitted variable bias is a key problem for research on education; therefore, this study uses new longitudinal data to overcome omitted variable bias and clearly demonstrate the robustness of these earlier findings. The empirical results of this study corroborate earlier work, showing that master's degrees in the humanities or social sciences do not provide graduate students with an advantage in obtaining initial employment, after controlling for potential bias. At the same time, this study also confirms that natural science majors have a higher probability of obtaining initial employment in comparison with humanities or social science majors. In other words, this paper offers a valid replication of existing research. This shows that the Japanese labor market structure for graduate students has, in essence, remained the same since previous research was completed.
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- 2023
13. Beyond the Academy: A Scholar's Obligations. ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 31.
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American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY. and Garrison, George R.
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Four papers address how individual scholars may see their obligations to the wider public. In the first paper, "The Social Responsibility of the Academy and Its Academicians," George R. Garrison considers the role, purpose, and mission of Liberal Arts Institutions of Higher Education and examines the civic and social responsibilities of researchers and teachers in the Academy. The second paper, "Reflections on the History Wars," by Arnita A. Jones, first identifies four developments creating a favorable climate for public presentation of history including the increasing numbers of historians in public history jobs, a growing public appetite for history, the modern history education reform movement, and recent historical scholarship. She then considers implications of the rejection of the recently formulated National Standards in History. The third paper, "The Dangers of Willful Ignorance," by Robert Pollack examines the two-edged role of science and urges the teaching of science as an integrated part of the culture and a commitment by higher education to study the political implications of science, and greater involvement in and debate about the major ideas of science. The final paper, "On Defiance and Taking Positions" by Edward W. Said stresses that, although the first commitment of scholars must be to their field and students, as intellectuals in the wider society they should oppose consensus and othrodoxy, remind the wider society of context and larger processes, maintain their independence of thought, and involve themselves with an ongoing process or issue. (DB)
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- 1995
14. Boundaries of Empirical Approaches in Educational Research
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Christopher Olusola Omoregie
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This paper critically reviews the research done in education faculties in Nigerian universities. This research, though categorized in postgraduate schools or colleges as mainly in the liberal arts/humanities and the social sciences, depends on the theories and methodologies from other disciplines. The arts and social sciences are disciplines where undergraduates in education take courses in teaching to earn bachelor's degrees, the postgraduate level offers varied opportunities for educational research to maximize the uniqueness of mixed method research for education.
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- 2023
15. Contrasts Between Science and Humanities Majors in Undergraduate Outcomes and Activities. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Pace, C. Robert
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This paper seeks evidence of a culture gulf, first voiced by C.P. Snow in 1959, between science and humanities as reflected in the understanding which undergraduate science and humanities majors have of the other field. The 1995 study evaluated responses of students at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California's Humboldt State University (HSU) to the College Student Experiences Questionnaire, which measures both general cognitive outcomes and personal/social outcomes. The study found some differences between science and humanities majors, although not as great as those reflected in Snow's study of eminent physical scientists and literary intellectuals. The study did find that science majors reported greater progress in analytical skills while humanities majors report greater progress in interpersonal skills. These differences were consistently greater at UCLA than at HSU. The data examining these differences, using Holland's (1959) theory of vocational choice, suggest that they may be the result of institutional environment and context. (Contains 8 references.) (CH)
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- 1996
16. Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges. The United States Focus. ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37.
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American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY. and Pavliscak, Pamela
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This report surveys the various applications of information technology to research in the humanities and examines challenges that need to be overcome. The document is divided into five sections. The first section provides a background on changes brought on by technology in the humanities. The second section focuses on information technology and scholarship. Topics include: electronic communication; text; data; images; sound; combined sources/multimedia/World Wide Web; retroconversion projects; original and creative works; electronic publication; and tools. A summary of computer applications in humanities research and future outlook are included at the end of this section. New developments and change are discusses in the third section. The fourth section outlines institutional changes that are necessary to enable effective technology use in humanities scholarship. Topics include: training and support; project management; research infrastructure; digital libraries and archives; information resources; regulatory issues; preservation and access; funding; and humanities support services. The fifth section makes recommendations and lists priorities for humanists, technical experts, librarians, and administrators. Appendices in the final section include acknowledgments, bibliographies, and abbreviations and acronyms. (Contains 37 references.) (AEF)
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- 1997
17. Learning to Learn: Empowering Students to Articulate the Value of Their HASS Degree
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Rahman, Nira and Lakey, Elizabeth
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In an uncertain labour market, the questions around the employability of graduate students take on a new urgency. Fears about the graduate market in the coming years are acute and are compounded by a sense that there is a large disconnect between a university education and what is expected in the workplace. Australian labour market trends clearly demonstrate that the skills most in demand by Australian graduate employers are precisely the transferrable skills which are honed by doing a HASS degree at the university. However, HASS academics do not usually talk about the skills and attributes students are gaining during their university studies and how this is useful in the workplace. Creating this awareness in both staff and students is immensely important for future graduates to survive and excel beyond university. Based on focus groups, interviews, and student-led projects over the last three years, this paper explores how to balance the need to engage with deep disciplinary knowledge with the understanding that this knowledge is only useful in the real world if accompanied by explicit skills. By using a case study, this paper showcases how to articulate skills and knowledge to HASS students to prepare for workforce. Furthermore, it focusses on how graduate attributes and learning outcomes can be connected from assessment tasks to classroom teaching.
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- 2023
18. The Bologna in the Field of Social Sciences and Humanities: A Precondition for Successful University Education
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Jelena Osmanovic Zajic and Jelena Maksimovic
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The Bologna Process represents the most significant extensive reform of higher education in Europe. The particular aspects of the Bologna Process still incite critical evaluations as regards the successfulness of its implementation. The theoretical part of the paper analyzes the fundamental principles defined in the Bologna Declaration, requirements and critical views of the Bologna Process, as well as the relevant research conducted on this issue used for the comparative analysis. The introduction of the Bologna Process into the Serbian university education has initiated numerous changes, the increase of the student mobility being the most striking one. The empirical part of the paper focuses on the study of the following problem: the manner in which students of social sciences and humanities perceive the Bologna Process fifteen years after its implementation into the Serbian university education. Consequently, the subject matter of the research is the observation and description of students' attitudes to this phenomenon with the purpose of acquiring relevant information "firsthand." The achievable objective of the presented research reviews the context and condition of the Bologna Process during 2019/2020 academic year and its feasible improvements, which can contribute to comparative study of similar researches in the time of the pandemics. The specific research tasks include the study of the Bologna requirements, attitudes to the Bologna Process, benefits and restrictions of this reform, and particularly the attempt to suggest the improvement of the Bologna Process realization from the perspective of students of social sciences and humanities. The research sample consisted of the Bachelor students of social sciences and humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš (N=150). The survey technique and the scaling technique with a rating scale questionnaire were used (BOL-JM-JOZ). The questionnaire had five closed-ended questions, while the Likert scale was comprised of 23 items. The test of the instrument consistency proved its reliability. The obtained results were shown by the chi square test, which proved a statistically significant difference in the respondents' answers as regards the year of study, p<0.05. The main factors were extracted from the assessment scale by the application of the factor analysis. These factors examined the students' perceptions of the Bologna Process, comparing the answers provided by the students of the first, second, third and fourth year of study of social sciences and humanities, p<0.05.
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- 2023
19. Impact of Cultural Competence in Graduate School Settings
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Rita DiLeo
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The range of challenges for educators in the graduate school setting includes students' differences associated with age, language barriers, learning styles, disability, and culture. The literature also demonstrates student populations in higher education differ in academic ability, gender, socioeconomic factors, religion, and life experiences. Thus, the integration of cultural competence in the graduate school settings is imperative as the student populations becomes increasingly more diverse. The educators must demonstrate an understanding to the student to engage and motivate them to learn. Higher education faculty and administrators must determine the strategy they will employ to meet the student demands and simultaneously compete with other colleges. The strategy should address arenas where the curriculum engages the diverse student population in humanities, liberal arts, professional activities, and conveys the career opportunities. The purpose of this research is to understand the types of learning barriers in higher education, assess the importance of cultural competence, and evaluate the correlation between cultural competence and learning outcomes. [For the full proceedings, see ED656038.]
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- 2023
20. Culture's New Frontier: Staking a Common Ground. ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 15.
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American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY. and Collins, Naomi F.
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This document examines the notion of the "public humanities," the humanities as they exist outside the university. The work seeks to provide an intellectual rationale for the public humanities through a bibliographic essay, reflections on readings, and a bibliography for further reference. In a separate appendix, a sample "User's Guide" attempts to address the question heard from curious audiences at public programs: what are the humanities, anyway? The booklet attempts to capture the complexity and ambiguity of the humanities, identifies reasons why defining the humanities is so difficult, and addresses how it might be possible to talk about the humanities. The ideal outcome of a discussion of the public humanities would be a general realization among people that they have been using the humanities all along and that the humanities can provide the foundation for a thoughtful and informed life. (LBG)
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- 1990
21. From the Generalist Courses to Work: An Annotated Bibliography on Generic Skills. Centre for the Study of Higher Education Research Working Papers, 93.5.
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Melbourne Univ. (Australia). Centre for the Study of Higher Education., Marginson, Simon, and O'Hanlon, Seamus
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This annotated bibliography of 70 items was developed as part of a larger research project on the possible application of competency-based approaches to generalist courses (arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences) in higher education. The project also looked at other ways, aside from the use of competency-based approaches, of improving the relationship between higher education and research. The bibliography's main focus is on academic and policy-related literature from Australia and Great Britain, with some material from the United States, Japan, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Extensive abstracts are provided for most citations which are listed alphabetically by author. The literature abstracts cover research, mainly from the 1990s, on the transition from generalist courses to work; academic understandings of generic skills; employer selection practices and requirements of graduates; employer understandings of skills; the debate about competency-based reform; and material in related areas such as the debate about the university, the humanities, and the role of careers advisers. The bibliography provides a summary of the field in Australia as of early 1993. (Author/GLR)
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- 1993
22. The Entangled Becoming in Humanities Doctoral Education
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Hatice Nuriler and Søren S. E. Bengtsen
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Purpose: Institutional framings of doctoral education mostly do not recognize the existential dimension of doctoral experience. This paper aims to offer an expanded understanding of experiences of doctoral researchers in the humanities with the concept of entangled becoming. This concept is developed through an existential lens by using Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy -- particularly his emphasis on emotions such as passion, anxiety and despair -- and Denise Batchelor's derived concept of vulnerable voices. Design/methodology/approach: The conceptual framing is used for an empirical study based on ethnographic interviews with 10 doctoral researchers and supplementary observational notes from fieldwork at a university in Denmark. Two of the interview cases were selected to showcase variation across lived experiences and how doctoral researchers voice their entangled becoming. Findings: Common experiences such as loneliness, insecurity(ies), vulnerability(ies) or passion for one's research were identified across the interviews. On the other hand, this study shows that each doctoral journey in the humanities envelops a distinct web of entanglements, entailing distinct navigation, that makes each case a unique story and each doctoral voice a specific one. Originality/value: Combining an existential philosophical perspective with a qualitative study, the paper offers an alternative perspective for doctoral education. It connects the humanities doctoral experience to the broader condition of human existence and the sophisticated uniqueness of each researcher's becoming.
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- 2024
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23. Living with the Impact Agenda -- Humanities Academics Negotiating and Resisting the Impact Agenda as Researchers and Doctoral Supervisors
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Signe Skov and Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen
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Purpose: In Denmark, there has been, over decades, an intensified political focus on how humanities research and doctoral education contribute to society. In this vein, the notion of impact has become a central part of the academic language, often associated with terms like use, effects and outputs, stemming from neoliberal ideologies. The purpose of this paper is to explore how humanities academics are living with the impact agenda, as both experienced researchers and as doctoral supervisors educating the next generation of researchers in this post-pandemic era. Specifically, the authors are interested in the supervisor-researcher relationship, that is, the relationship between how the supervisors navigate the impact agenda as researchers and then the way they tell their doctoral students to do likewise. Design/methodology/approach: The authors have studied how the impact agenda is accommodated by humanities academics through a series of qualitative interviews with humanities researchers and humanities PhD supervisors, encompassing questions of how they are living with the expectation of impact and how it is embedded in their university and departmental context. Findings: The study shows that there is no link between how the supervisors navigate the impact agenda in relation to their own research work and then the way they tell their doctoral students to approach it. Within the space of their own research, the supervisors engage in resistance practices towards the impact agenda in terms of minimal compliance, rejection or resignation, whereas in the space of supervision, the impact agenda is re-inscribed to embody other understandings. The supervisors want to protect their students from this agenda, especially in the knowledge that many of them are not going to stay in academia due to limited researcher career possibilities. Furthermore, the paper reveals a new understanding of the impact agenda as having a relational quality, and in two ways. One is through a positional struggle, the reshaping of power relations, between universities (or academics) and society (or the state and the market); the other is as a phenomenon very much lived among academics themselves, including between supervisors and their doctoral students within the institutional context. Originality/value: This study opens up the impact agenda, showing what it means to be a humanities academic living with the effects of the impact agenda and trying to navigate this. The study is mapping and tracking out the many different meanings and variations of impact in all its volatility for academics concerned about it. In current, post-pandemic times, when manifold expectations are directed towards research and doctoral education, it is important to know more about how these expectations affect and are dealt with by those who are expected to commit to them.
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- 2024
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24. Cultivating Criticality in a Neoliberal System: A Case Study of an English Literature Curriculum at a Mega Distance University
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Retha Knoetze
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Neoliberal practices such as managerialism and academic casualisation impact higher education systems globally. While these practices can constrain any curriculum aimed at enabling transformative learning, this paper shows that they place particular limitations on arts and humanities curricula intent on cultivating criticality and a sense of social responsibility. I draw on data from an English literature curriculum study at a mega distance education institution in South Africa and use Legitimation Code Theory to take a close-up look at how two neoliberal practices: managerialism and academic casualisation cause misalignments between the underpinning values of the curriculum and the kinds of pedagogic and formative assessment practices that are employed. I conclude that decisions regarding administration, enrolments and staffing based on neoliberal values can frustrate students' epistemological and ontological access to humanities disciplines and limit the potential of humanities curricula to offer a higher education in service of the social good.
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- 2024
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25. A Systematic Literature Review of Cognitive Exchange in Higher Degree Visual Art Education
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Heaton, Rebecca and Chan Lai Kuan, Shannon
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This literature review paper presents ways cognitive exchange occurs in higher degree visual art education. It also attempts to demystify concerns regarding the value and presence of cognitive exchange in art education, this is because cognitive exchange is not considered in art education with the same breadth or depth as in higher education. Cognitive exchange research in higher degree visual art education is limited but there has been a surge in interest about cognitive functioning in higher education. It is therefore timely to consider how cognitive exchange is understood across visual art practices at this level. This paper presents a two phased systematic review, where cognitive exchange literature in the higher degree context is considered alongside such literature in art education. Four spaces: the individual, social, pedagogic, and policy orientated are discussed to present cognitive exchange practices in higher degree visual art education. The spaces and forms of cognitive exchange profiled, provide a knowledge contribution to disciplines that intersect with the arts and humanities. This is because they mobilize where and how cognitive exchange forms, they present opportunities and uses for cognitive exchange and help suggest ways to support its growth.
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26. The Discourse Structure and Linguistic Features of Research Article Abstracts in English by Indonesian Academics
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Arsyad, Safnil
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To effectively teach university lecturers or students to write a good research article (RA) abstract for publication in international journals, instructors need to know the present characteristics of abstracts written published in such journals. This study examines the discourse structure and linguistic features of RA abstracts written in English by Indonesian academics published in national journals. The corpus for this study consists of 30 selected RA abstracts published mainly in university-based journals in Indonesia in social science and humanities disciplines. Analyses were conducted using genre-based procedures with a clause or a simple sentence as the smallest unit of analysis. The results show 1) unlike the common discourse structure of English abstracts found in RAs published in international journals, the majority English RA abstracts written by Indonesian speakers have only three moves (i.e. purpose, method and results); 2) the abstracts are mostly written in active sentence using present tense except for Move 3 (methods) in which a half of them are written in past tense and that-complement sentences are mostly found in Move 4 (results or findings); and 3) the use of interactional metadiscourse devices are dominated by hedges found in Move 4 while the use of attitudinal stance markers of the writers and self-reference words is rarely found in the abstracts.
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27. Demonstrating 'Impact': Insights from the Work of Preservice Teachers Completing a Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment
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Brett, Peter and Parks, Michelle
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Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reform in Australia has mandated that graduating teachers demonstrate their practice and 'impact' through the completion of a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) prior to graduation. The requirement to analyse 'impact' in teaching, requires a nuanced understanding of what 'impact' is and how it manifests in varied contemporary classrooms. This paper reports on how a sample of high-performing pre-service teachers from one Australian ITE institution, within a framework devised by Australia's largest TPA consortium, appraised the impact of their teaching in the context of the disciplinary area of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS). How 'impact' was articulated through GTPA submissions revealed data-informed and holistic interpretations layered to include opportunistic teaching moments and relational and affective impact as well as analysis of cognitive progress. The paper also identifies ways in which analysis of impact might be further finessed with greater attention to pedagogical content knowledge and discipline-specific progression.
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- 2022
28. Preparing Students to Write a Professional Philosophy of Recreation Paper
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Stevens, Cheryl, Schneider, Paige P., and Johnson, Corey W.
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This paper describes a process for guiding students through the writing of a Professional Philosophy of Recreation Paper and a one-page philosophy statement suitable for use in students' professional portfolios. The authors describe how the review of recreation education literature, scholarship on teaching and learning, and assessment of student learning were used over a 12-year period to arrive at the present design for course content, delivery methods, and the Professional Philosophy of Recreation Paper assignment. Over time it was discovered that exposing students to the humanities (e.g., philosophy, literature, film) as a complement to science (e.g., positive psychology, social cognitive theory, evidence-based benefits) was more effective for meeting learning outcomes than merely philosophy and theory alone. The authors also describe how assessment of The Professional Philosophy of Recreation Paper provides evidence that students are meeting standard 7.01 for accreditation under the 2013 COAPRT Learning Outcomes Standards. (Contains 1 table.)
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- 2012
29. The Role of Educational Technologists in the Provision of Language Courses in Higher Education: A Case Study
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Allen, Christopher and Richardson, David
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In recent years, schools, municipalities, and universities have made increasing use of educational technologists (edtechs) to support teaching staff in the delivery of technology-based courses in face-to-face, blended, or purely online formats. This paper is a case study focusing on the types of training and support provision provided by three edtechs within the arts and humanities faculty of a large provincial university in southern Sweden. The edtechs also identify a number of obstacles in the way of developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and computer assisted language learning expertise among teaching staff. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
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- 2019
30. Future Priorities of the Humanities in Europe. What Have the Humanities to Offer?: Report of a Round Table Conference Held to Draft a Manifesto for the European Commissioner and Working Papers for the EC Working Party on Future Priorities for Humanities Research
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Parker, Jan
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Humanities-based speakers and delegates to the European Commission conference on "Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: New Challenges, New Opportunities" gathered at the end of the meeting to develop a proactive Humanities special interest group. The result was a round-table conference organized by the Humanities Higher Education Research Group, the international group based in and supported by the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology, to which senior humanities scholars and members of the European Community (EC) Working Party on Future Priorities for the Humanities were invited. This article provides a brief overview of these discussions, which developed around two issues: (1) What should be said to Europe about the Humanities and what they can offer?; and (2) What "are" the distinguishing features of the Humanities? A major conclusion of the conference was to propose to the EC that the question of what distinguishes the Humanities should itself be a research strand earmarked for support. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2007
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31. Education for Justice. Occasional Papers on Catholic Higher Education. Volume V, Number 1. Summer 1979.
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Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC.
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The role of Catholicism in American higher education is addressed in this collection of papers. The historical tradition of the Catholic university is discussed as well as the problems they must face. Issues examined include: political and financial concerns of church-related colleges and universities, the role of the university in higher education, and the role of the Catholic colleges and universities. The governance of Catholic institutions, their relationship to the church hierarchy, and planning for the future are also considered. Included are: Toward a True University, Truly Catholic (Edmund D. Pellegrino); Toward a Theology of Learning (Thomas Trotter); The University and Change in the Catholic World (Sargent Shriver); Homily for a Baccalaureate Ceremony (John Tracy Ellis); The Catholic College: A Question of Identity (Xavier G. Colavechio); The Emerging Guardianship of American Catholic Higher Education (Martin J. Stamm); Institutional Vitality, Up Against the Eighties (James A. Ebben); and The NEH Christian Humanism Project at Saint John's Collegeville (R. W. Franklin). (SF)
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- 1979
32. Experiential Learning and the University's Host Community: Rapid Growth, Contested Mission and Policy Challenge
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Buzzelli, Michael and Asafo-Adjei, Emmanuel
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This paper examines the recent growth of experiential learning (EL) and the university-community (or so-called town-gown, TG) connections created as a result of this expansion. The research is framed by critical scholarship on the nature and role of the university and the place of liberal education specifically, as well as policy drivers aimed at social and economic impacts from EL. Two subthemes are also examined: first, the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences disciplines in EL expansion and, second, the extent to which TG connections focus on the university's local host community as opposed to more distant and even international arrangements. Mixed research methods including public document analysis and key informant interviews are used to document and interpret EL developments across nine varied universities in Ontario, Canada. The results underline broad sector commitment to EL that in turn creates new and different TG connections for the university. Rapid expansion has brought a variety of challenges identified both by universities and community EL partners. The paper concludes with discussion of policy implications and consideration of the future of EL in light of the 'digital pivot' of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- 2023
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33. Arts and Humanities Research Infrastructure. Report to the HEFCE by JM Consulting. Issues Paper.
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Higher Education Funding Council for England, Bristol.
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This report reviews the requirements for infrastructure for research in the arts and humanities in United Kingdom universities and colleges. It assesses the extent of remedial investment required and sets out the conditions needed to manage this research infrastructure on a sustainable basis. The requirements for arts and humanities research that are the focus of this report are only part of a broader picture. The report is primarily concerned with current needs, but looks at trends and developments and their implications for the infrastructure required to support them. The sections are: (1) Introduction; (2) Research in the Arts and Humanities; (3) The Funding and Management of this Research; and (4) Findings on Infrastructure Needs. Appendixes contain terms of reference and a list of members of the advisory group and a report on responses to consultation. A glossary is also attached. (SLD)
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- 2002
34. The Useful Humanists: Alternative Careers for Ph.D.'s in the Humanities. Working Papers.
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Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY., Jacobs, Rita D., Jacobs, Rita D., and Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.
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Addressing the current employment crisis in the humanities fields, this paper examines employment opportunities for Ph.D. graduates outside the university environment. The report notes that humanities graduates have learned skills of research, problem solving, and writing, and that graduate training emphasizes the ability to penetrate underlying assumptions beyond the immediate situation. These skills may be easily transferred to non-academic pursuits. Hypothetical projects are outlined for humanities specialists and the American Studies Internship Program designed to place its graduates in business and government. Suggested areas in which Ph.D. graduates would make effective contributions include organizational development, human resource programs, career development, and public affairs. Recommendations are that humanists realize that non-academic jobs are not second rate and that interdisciplinary studies, career counseling services, and internships be established. Sections of the paper discuss the current crisis, provide unemployment statistics, and examine academic and institutional stereotypes. A list of associations and a bibliography relevant to humanists seeking non-academic jobs are provided. (KC)
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- 1977
35. Social Science, Philosophy and Education
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Barrow, Robin
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This essay argues for the urgent need for philosophy as the necessary first step in any educational undertaking. Philosophy is involved with making fine distinctions which are necessary to clarify concepts and terms. The paper focuses primarily on the problems with an overreliance on scientific research in the social sciences, with special emphasis on the dangers posed in educational research. Three specific problems are identified. First, the emphasis on scientific research downgrades non-scientific research, which may be more appropriate as modes of inquiry in many aspects of education. Second, the emphasis on scientific research distorts research in areas such as the arts and humanities because individual success as a scholar is largely measured by criteria that make sense in the natural sciences but not necessarily in the arts. Third, and most significantly, the paper questions whether social action and interaction can be investigated in a truly scientific manner. [This paper was presented at "Philosophical Issues in Education: A Symposium in Honour" of Dr. Robin Barrow, held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. on November 2, 2018.]
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- 2019
36. 'Go to Oxbridge, Get an Education, Start a Career. 'Do All the Right Things'': The 'Low Value' Arts Degree and the Neoliberal University
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Orlaith Darling and Áine Mahon
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Departments of Arts and Humanities globally face increasing financial threat from falling enrolment, rising costs, and 'strategic realignment' at university level. In the UK, in particular, cuts to the Arts and Humanities sector are becoming endemic, with complex ramifications for prospective students as well as academic and professional staff. In light of these structural and ideological challenges, this paper proposes a revisiting of the philosophical work of Richard Rorty. Rorty has argued compellingly for the morally educative importance of the arts as well as the distinct gift of a liberal education more generally. Ultimately, however, we argue that Rorty's liberal ideals are radically threatened in the present context of neoliberalism and that they have been particularly problematised in philosophical and literary work since Rorty's death in 2007. The theoretical writings of Lauren Berlant as well as the literary fiction of Nicole Flattery and Natasha Brown are our key exemplars here. Through our analysis of these texts, we interrogate what we might desire of education "beyond" the liberal paradigm underpinning Rorty's thought; and we sketch a framework for the Arts and Humanities perhaps more responsive to the crises of our contemporary age.
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37. Narratives of 'Delayed Success': A Life Course Perspective on Understanding Vietnamese International Students' Decisions to Drop out of PhD Programmes
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Hao Phuong Phan
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PhD (non-)completion rates have been considered important criteria with which to evaluate the effectiveness of doctoral programmes and of universities' performance. To date, there has been a lack of qualitative studies on the voices and experiences of funded international students who discontinue doctoral research degrees. This paper uses qualitative methods and six themes of a life course perspective to uncover the 'hidden' experience of international Vietnamese students who dropped out of funded doctoral programmes in social sciences and humanities. Its findings suggest that linked/independent lives and the timing of live themes helped to understand reasons for international doctoral students to drop out, which underline their engagement with research networks, academic identity and familial responsibilities. Meanwhile, the consequences of dropout illustrate the intersections of five themes: linked/independent lives, development risk and projects, the timing of lives/interplay of human lives and historical times, and diversity in life courses. The five themes capture diverse life trajectories and forms of agency developed by PhD non-completers while negotiating social pressures and institutional politics in their home institution as well as their perceptions of well-being and life priorities. Their life trajectories and forms of agency are gendered and culturally specific, with female non-completers being more active in searching for and building back their 'agentic orientations' through learning new skills, entering motherhood or leaving academic institutions. These findings are useful for reflecting on the current supporting structures, especially mental health support, for international doctoral students and supervisor training.
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- 2024
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38. Quantitative Analysis of the Use of Virtual Reality Environments among Higher Education Professors
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Álvaro Antón-Sancho, Diego Vergara, and Pablo Fernández-Arias
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Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer-generated environment with noteworthy didactic applications in different educational levels and areas of knowledge. The study of the perceptions of the agents involved about the use of VR in lectures is a fruitful line of research because it has implications in terms of the measures to be taken to improve the training and competence of professors in its use. In this paper, a quantitative, descriptive, and correlational research is carried out on the assessments of a sample of 1638 Latin American university professors on both (i) the didactic use of VR and (ii) the influence of the professors' area of knowledge on these assessments. For this purpose, a validated questionnaire was used, the responses to which were subjected to statistical analysis. As a result, it was found that the ratings of VR are very high, but professors believe that their digital skills for its use are insufficient. In addition, the professors' area of knowledge significantly influences their ratings, being higher in the areas of knowledge in which professors have a better self-concept of their digital skills. Furthermore, gender gaps have also been identified in the answers given, which behave differently according to the area of knowledge. Finally, some conclusions, implications, and recommendations are drawn from the results obtained.
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39. A Foucauldian Analysis of Research Assessment in a Postcolonial Context: The Example of Hong Kong
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Charlene Tan
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This article analyses performance-based research evaluation for the higher education sector in a postcolonial context through a Foucauldian lens. Using Hong Kong as an example, this paper examines the formulation of and receptions towards the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). It is argued that Hong Kong academics, especially those working in the humanities and social sciences, associate the key concepts of 'world-leading' and 'internationally excellent' research in the RAE framework with Western knowledge that undermines local and regional research. They respond to RAE in four main ways: pragmatic compliance; refusal to conform to the demands of RAE; adoption of a dualistic strategy by publishing internationally and locally; and re-imagining of research assessment coupled with the promotion of indigenous knowledge. Two significant implications are highlighted in this article. First, the preservation of a research evaluation mechanism inherited from a colonial government perpetuates and entrenches external control and dominance in the former colony. Secondly, there is a need to re-construct the research appraisal apparatus as well as advance indigenous and hybrid knowledge in a postcolonial educational landscape.
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40. Becoming a Teacher in Higher Education: Creating an Academic Development Program to Catalyse Doctoral Students' Professionalization
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Misic, Gorana, Rymarenko, Margaryta, and Dorner, Helga
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This paper focuses on exploring the intellectual basis for establishing an academic development program for international doctoral students in social sciences and humanities in Central Europe so as to cultivate a reflective scholarly approach to teaching early on in their academic career. The program conceptions and practices are embedded in the notion that a scholarly approach to teaching integrates the understanding and demonstration of knowledge about teaching and necessitates a continuous learning process about teaching through reflection and through conducting research on teaching in the various disciplines. In particular, taking on board the domains of teaching knowledge which derived from the kinds of reflections on teaching (cf. Kreber & Cranton, 2000; Mezirow, 1991), instructional, pedagogical and curricular knowledge and continuous reflection at the level of content, process as well as premise, are represented in an integrative manner in our overarching program principles and pedagogical strategies. As we see, professionalization of doctoral students' teaching practice in higher education (cf. Lueddeke, 2003) is particularly important in the context of enhanced faculty mobility and internationalization. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to the literature and practice on establishing academic development programs, especially in academic environments with low institutional support for teaching and lack of formal requirements for professional development.
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- 2021
41. Individual-Intellectual Integrations on the Commonality Criterion in Russian Undergraduates
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Dorfman, Leonid, Kalugin, Alexey, and Mishkevich, Arina
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The commonality is one of underlying conditions that provide the individual-intellectual integrations. Three forms identify the commonality. The first is the causal commonality, the second is the generalizing commonality, third is the intertwining commonality. Confirmatory one- and two- factor analysis (CFA) and path analysis (PA) specified the operationalization of the commonality. 235 undergraduates at universities in Perm city (Russia) involved in this study. Participants were 178 women and 57 men, age 17 to 22 years (M = 18.61, SD = 0.88). The set of variables entered individuality traits (nervous system, temperament, and personality), fluid and crystallized intelligence, and creativity. The main results were as follows: (1) The variables of individuality provide individual-intellectual integrations and function as the causal commonality; (2) Variables of individuality and creativity provide individual-intellectual integrations and function as two forms of causal commonality; (3) The generalizing commonality did not arise by means of one- or two- factor CFA; (4) The intertwining commonality of the variables of individuality and the variables of intelligence and creativity has not found empirical support by means of PA. The recommendation proposes that although constructs of individuality and intelligence with creativity differ, researchers may apply to the commonality criterion. [For the complete proceedings, see ED626149.]
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42. Tell Us the Truth: A Collaborative Project
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Cirillo, Nancy R.
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"Tell Us the Truth" is a collaborative article by a professor of English and her freshmen students in a core humanities course from the Fall 2016 entitled Readings in Atlantic Slavery. The students read novels, slave narratives, memoirs, and history. The essay follows the growing interest of the students as they read against the presidential campaign taking place during that period. The students were given the option of writing a final paper on the topic of why they should have been given evidence-based, unpoliticized history during high school. They all chose this option. The professor provides a narrative and cites passages from the papers submitted in support of their reasonable plea for learning what they came to call "real history"--history that is factual and unsanitized. [This article was co-written by the students of HON 124, Fall 2016.]
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- 2017
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43. Graduate Education in the Humanities: The Need for Reaffirmation, Connection, and Justification. An Occasional Paper.
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Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S., Washington, DC. and Pellegrino, Edmund D.
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A human society that aspires to more than survival must search continuously for new knowledge; we are all the beneficiaries of the scholar's insatiable desire to know. Graduate study must be nurtured, and cannot ever be the sole preoccupation of academe. Today the crucial balance of things and humans is threatened by the erosion of support for and interest in graduate study of the humanities. The professions, such as medicine, are turning more and more to the humanities as part of professional study, seeking three things the humanities can uniquely contribute to human endeavor: (1) to serve as preferred vehicles for teaching the liberal arts; (2) to provide sources of knowledge not susceptible to scientific method; and (3) to enrich the lives of humans as humans. It is important to reassert these seemingly obvious uses of the humanities, even for the humanists. The liberal arts are indispensable to the survival of democratic societies, which survive on the strength of their citizens who possess a critical intelligence. As a result of changes external and internal to the humanities, humanists have retreated too swiftly before the popularity and successes of the sciences and the professions. Scholarship and research do not exhaust the value of the humanities to society, and it is the university's responsibility to prepare humanists who can cultivate the closer engagement of the humanities with practical affairs. (MSE)
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- 1981
44. What Portion in the World: New Essays on Public Uses of the Humanities. Papers Presented at the National Conference of State Humanities Councils, 1981.
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National Federation of State Humanities Councils, Minneapolis, MN. and Buckingham, Cynthia
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Five essays on public uses of the humanities from the 1981 National Conference of State Humanities Councils are presented. After a foreword by Donald Gibson and an introduction by Steven Weiland, "The Uses and Status of Literature" by Catherine Stimpson is presented. She recommends that public programs in the humanities address the quarrels about literature itself. In "Quality in History Programs: From Celebration to Exploration of Values," Michael H. Frisch considers the "quality gap" in contemporary public history programming. As illustration, some issues and opportunities in community-based oral history projects are addressed. In "Scholarly Standards and Public Humanities Programs," William C. Havard discusses problems of inducing humanities scholars to participate in National Endowment for the Humanities' public programs, and the universities' role. In "Applied Humanities: Utility as Standard of Value in Public Programs" Barbara Hillyer Davis examines humanist in residence programs, while in "The Humanities and the State Councils: Retooling in the 1980s," Abraham Edel discusses the needs and values of programs of state humanities councils, self-assessment, and criticisms of the programs. (SW)
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- 1982
45. Technology and the Nature of Man: A View from the Humanities. An Occasional Paper on Man/Society/Technology.
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West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Coll. of Human Resources and Education., Stasny, John F., Stasny, John F., and West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Coll. of Human Resources and Education.
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The author reflects on the declining appreciation of the humanities in light of the major role which technology plays in our lives today. Three issues related to this problem are identified: what educators should do about the loss of our literary heritage, what values operate in our technological society, and whether faith in man's unconquerable spirit is an adequate source of hope. Answers, or "a little good news," are sought in three 19th-century poems which present solutions to despair and pessimism. The author concludes that technology provides a means of transmitting traditional values, but in formats other than traditional literary style. He finds characteristics of wisdom and rationality in the Graeco-Roman humanist tradition and sees them as being more useful today than private selfish provision. The spirit of Don Quixote's quest illustrates that faith in man's spirit can triumph over despair. (AV)
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- 1976
46. Conservation and Preservation of Humanities Research Collections. Essays on Treatment and Care of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Photography, and Art on Paper and Canvas.
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Texas Univ., Austin. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center., Oliphant, Dave, Oliphant, Dave, and Texas Univ., Austin. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
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The 10 essays in this collection describe conservation and preservation projects conducted at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Eight of the 10 essays, each of which is written by a member of the Center's staff, address conservation treatments and issues. Two essays deal with preserving materials by housing and handling them appropriately. The essays are introduced by James Stroud, the Center's Chief Conservator, and all them are accompanied by photographs relating to the problems or processes described. The essays are entitled: (1) "Conservation Treatment of a Bound Manuscript in the Byron Collection" (Karen Pavelka); (2) "'D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterly': Conservation Treatment of a Twentieth-Century Bound Manuscript" (Carol Sue Whitehouse); (3) "Conservation of the Burned Fragments in the William Faulkner Collection" (Ellen Weir) (4) "A Summer Internship in Paintings Conservation" (Jill Whitten); (5) "Treatments of Five Nineteenth-Century Cloth Case-Bound Books" (Mary C. Baughman); (6) "Conserving Art for Traveling Exhibition: Treatment of a Storyboard" (Sue Murphy); (7) "The K-118' Binding Structure: A 500-Year-Old Experiment for Modern-Day Book Conservation" (Bruce Levy); (8) "Henry Peach Robinson's 'Bringing Home the May': Conservation Treatment of a Nineteenth-Century Albumen Print" (Barbara Brown) (9) "Housing, When and Why" (Frank Yezer); and (10) "The General Libraries Preservation Program: A Preliminary Report" (Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa). Notes on the contributors and a list of recent publications of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center are included. (KRN)
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- 1989
47. The Humanities in the Schools. ACLS Occasion Paper, No. 20.
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American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY.
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Designed to serve as a record of the initial public activity of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Program in Humanities Curriculum Development, this collection of three articles offers different perspectives on the humanities in the schools. In the first article, "The Humanities and Public Education," Stanley N. Katz discusses the need to determine how the humanities can increase the range of knowledge necessary to the intellectual development and social acculturation of young people from elementary through university education and how some of the new humanities research and teaching techniques can be made to work for school teachers. In the second article, "Cultural Equity," Henry Louis Gates, Jr. conveys the message that an equilibrium needs to be established between an untenable celebration of diversity and monochrome homogeneity. Although no guarantee exists, Gates proposes that the mistake would be not to try. A question and answer segment follows his paper. The final article, "The Women's Studies Movement," by Catherine R. Stimpson, describes women's studies as a pioneer in multicultural research, teaching, and governance in its exploration of divisive differences. A question and answer segment appears after the article. The agenda for the August 31-September 2, 1992 American Council of Learned Societies Conference as well as lists of speakers and advisory board members conclude the document. Attached to the main document is "ACLS Education Newsletter, volume 1, number 2, Summer 1993." It contains program site news from Cambridge-Brookline (Massachusetts), San Diego (California), Los Angeles (California), and Minneapolis (Minnesota) for the ACLS Program in Humanities Curriculum Development. (CK)
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48. Reinvigorating the Humanities: Enhancing Research and Education on Campus and Beyond
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Association of American Universities, Washington, DC., Mathae, Katherine Bailey, and Birzer, Catherine Langrehr
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From Socrates' time on, liberal arts education has been understood to produce a general learned competence that allows a student to be both a better human being and a better citizen. The breadth of this liberal arts curriculum stands in contrast to the much narrower vocational curriculum. More recently, the humanities have been caught in a conflict between over-simplified aristocratic and democratic notions of liberal arts education. Under the former, the liberal arts are viewed as being distinctly not useful; under the latter, they are seen as providing ideas of value to all citizens. Indeed, scholars and university administrators need to bear in mind the value of the humanities in the education of all of a university's students, the usefulness of this knowledge in the professional lives of those students, and society's need for a common base of understanding and an educated citizenry. Recently, those closely involved with the humanities--scholars, university administrators, academic society officials, and others--have begun separate reexaminations of established traditions and expectations, leading perhaps to defining a new role for the humanities in the university and in society. This report is intended to further prompt that reexamination of the humanities on university campuses, to identify steps that some institutions already have taken, and to propose future action. The report contains 3 parts: (1) The Role and Status of the Humanities at AAU Universities; (2) Recommendations and Ongoing Activities at AAU Universities; and (3) Appendices. (Five appendices are included: (1) Additional Examples; (2) The Humanities Support Infrastructure; (3) University of Toronto's Humanities Campaign; (4) AAM Position Statement on University Museums and Collections; and (5) References. Endnotes are presented following each part of the report. Statistical Information is presented in 5 graphs, and 8 tables.)
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49. Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services. Papers presented at the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 10-12, 1994).
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Illinois Univ., Urbana. Graduate School of Library and Information Science. and Sutton, Brett
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The 12 papers in this volume explore the development of electronic texts in the humanities and describe the possible roles for libraries as electronic books take the place of printed ones. The diverse perspectives of librarians, publishers, system administrators, scholars, readers, and writers are brought into conjunction, and a number of significant themes emerge. The papers are: "Authors and Readers in an Age of Electronic Texts" (Jay David Bolter); "Electronic Texts in the Humanities: A Coming of Age" (Susan Hockey); "The Text Encoding Initiative: Electronic Text Markup for Research" (C.M. Sperberg-McQueen); "Electronic Texts and Multimedia in the Academic Library: A View from the Front Line" (Anita K. Lowry); "Humanizing Information Technology: Cultural Evolution and the Institutionalization of Electronic Text Processing" (Mark Tyler Day); "Cohabiting with Copyright on the Nets" (Mary Brandt Jensen); "The Role of the Scholarly Publisher in an Electronic Environment" (Lorrie LeJeune); "The Feasibility of Wide-Area Textual Analysis Systems in Libraries: A Practical Analysis" (John Price-Wilkin); "The Scholar and His Library in the Computer Age" (James W. Marchand); "The Challenges of Electronic Texts in the Library: Bibliographic Control and Access" (Rebecca S. Guenther); "Durkheim's Imperative: The Role of Humanities Faculty in the Information Technologies Revolution" (Robert Alun Jones); and "The Materiality of the Book: Another Turn of the Screw" (Terry Belanger). (MAS)
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- 1994
50. The PhD by Publication in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Cross Country Analysis
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Paltridge, Brian and Starfield, Sue
- Abstract
This paper examines the PhD by publication in the humanities and social sciences in US, UK, Canadian and Australian universities. A set of PhDs by publication from each of these countries were collected for the study. The theses were analysed to see to what extent they fitted, or not, with discussions of thesis types described in previous research into the PhD by publication. Interviews with students and supervisors were carried out to investigate the choices that students made in their writing. University rules for the submission of PhDs by publication and related policy documents are also examined. The study found that there seems to be a preference for different types of PhD by publication in each of the countries. In the US they were all prospective PhDs with the work being especially written for the thesis. In the UK, by contrast, retrospective PhDs, the PhD by published work, largely dominate. Canada was similar to the US, at least in the area of study where the data were collected for the paper, Education. In Australia, both prospective and retrospective PhDs were found, although it was the former, the prospective PhD, which dominated.
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- 2023
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