New Humanities And Academic Disciplines

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309470641
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725212579
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Humanities and Academic Disciplines written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about social change as it is even now being revealed in the creation of a new field of learning, in an unprecedented setting, and for an as-yet-unknown cultural and intellectual purpose. It is about how a field of learning moves from one kind of institution to another, is practiced by new people (women, not only men, and outsiders as well as insiders), and for new purposes (secular, not only religious) and in new ways. Out of these minute particulars, in our imagination we may reconstruct the whole of modern history -- the universe out of a grain of sand. Perhaps no group in the past two hundred years of revolutionary change has moved so far, so fast, and in so many directions as the Jews.... from the Introduction

Author : J. Gottschall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230615597
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature, Science, and a New Humanities written by J. Gottschall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Humanities and Academic Disciplines written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rens Bod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199665214
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Author : Melissa Bailar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892630370
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Disciplines written by Melissa Bailar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of the September 18, 2009, symposium, "Emerging disciplines," organized by Caroline Levander and Charles Henry, held at Rice University, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Rice University Humanities Research Center."

Author : Zev Garber
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761815525
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Approaches to Teaching Jewish Studies written by Zev Garber and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen scholars and master teachers explore the challenges of teaching Jewish studies at American schools of higher education.

Author : Brett D. Hirsch
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1909254258
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Humanities Pedagogy written by Brett D. Hirsch and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions." (4e de couverture).

Author : Jerry A. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606946X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Disciplines written by Jerry A. Jacobs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief that blurring the boundaries between traditional academic fields promotes more integrated research and effective teaching, Jerry Jacobs contends that the promise of interdisciplinarity is illusory and that critiques of established disciplines are often overstated and misplaced. Drawing on diverse sources of data, Jacobs offers a new theory of liberal arts disciplines such as biology, economics, and history that identifies the organizational sources of their dynamism and breadth. Illustrating his thesis with a wide range of case studies including the diffusion of ideas between fields, the creation of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, and the rise of new fields that spin off from existing ones, Jacobs turns many of the criticisms of disciplines on their heads to mount a powerful defense of the enduring value of liberal arts disciplines. This will become one of the anchors of the case against interdisciplinarity for years to come.

Author : K. K. Ruthven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780909897260
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Disciplines written by K. K. Ruthven and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the recent Theory Wars, the traditional Humanities have taken a battering from radical critiques of their methods and politics. In their place new types of knowledge are emerging as The New Humanities. Beyond the Disciplines is a stimulating and informative introduction to some of the New Humanities by some of the people who are poineering them.