The Changing Face of Higher Education: Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities?

ISBN-13: 9781138244832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Dennis A. Ahlburg

Opis

The Changing Face of Higher Education explores whether the humanities are in crisis, what form that crisis takes, and what the responses should be. Examinging the state of the humanities in ten countries, this book disectes the claim that there is a worldwide crisis and investigaties the data used to support this claim.

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Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: An Australian Humanities Crisis?  Chapter 3: Is there a Crisis in the Humanities in Brazil? Ambivalences and Fragilities of a Late Higher Education System  Chapter 4: The Humanities as the Default Option in Higher Education: The Case of Egypt  Chapter 5: The Crisis of the Humanities and Social Sciences in France Today?  Chapter 6: To Be or Not To Be? Crisis and the Humanities in Germany  Chapter 7: Much Ado About Very Little: The [2015] Japanese Government Order that Japanese National University Abolish Their Humanities and Social Science Programmes  Chapter 8: The Humanities in Mexico: No Crisis, but No Shining Future Either  Chapter 9: Palestinian and Israeli Universities: Is there a Crisis of the Humanities?  Chapter 10: Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa  Chapter 11: Is there a crisis in the Humanities in the UK?  Chapter 12: The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’: Fact or Fiction?  Chapter 13: Conclusion

O autorze

Dennis A. Ahlburg is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University, Texas, USA. He was President of the University between 2010 and 2014. He has served as Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, USA and Senior Associate Dean and Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, New College, University of Oxford, UK.