How To Build A Life In The Humanities
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Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1137428899 |
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A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.
Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1137428899 |
Download How to Build a Life in the Humanities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A follow-up to the popular Graduate Study for the 21st Century , this book seeks to expand professional development to include the personal aspects of daily lives in the humanities. How to Build a Life in the Humanities delves into pressing work-life issues such as post-tenure depression, academic life with children, aging, and adjuncting.
Author | : Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374717788 |
Download What Are We Doing Here? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”
Author | : G. Semenza |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0230105807 |
Download Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In a straightforward manner, Semenza identifies the obstacles along the path of the academic career and offers tangible advice. Fully revised and updated, this edition's new material on advising, electronic publishing, and the post-financial crisis humanities job market will help students negotiate the changing landscape of academia.
Author | : Helen Small |
Publisher | : Academic |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0199683867 |
Download The Value of the Humanities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities.
Author | : Martha C. Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-11-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 069117332X |
Download Not for Profit Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world. In a new preface, Nussbaum explores the current state of humanistic education globally and shows why the crisis of the humanities has far from abated. Translated into over twenty languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troubling—and hopeful—global educational developments. Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education.
Author | : Christine Henseler |
Publisher | : Lever Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2020-05-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 164315009X |
Download Extraordinary Partnerships Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This inspirative and hopeful collection demonstrates that the arts and humanities are entering a renaissance that stands to change the direction of our communities. Community leaders, artists, educators, scholars, and professionals from many fields show how they are creating responsible transformations through partnership in the arts and humanities. The diverse perspectives that come together in this book teach us how to perceive our lives and our disciplines through a broader context. The contributions exemplify how individuals, groups, and organizations use artistic and humanistic principles to explore new structures and novel ways of interacting to reimagine society. They refresh and reinterpret the ways in which we have traditionally assigned space and value to the arts and humanities.
Author | : Jerry G. Gaff |
Publisher | : Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume offers a compAndium of the best ideas, analyses, and practices relating to the undergraduate curriculum as described by leading figures in the field. It contains both conceptual and practical information on effective practices, research, management, and assessment. In thirty-four original chapters, top practitioners and scholars detail a range of philosophies, frameworks, program designs, instructional strategies, and assessment methods being used to strengthen and transform the curriculum. They examine both the current state of knowledge and teaching in the disciplines and the forces that will reshape the curriculum in the coming years. The Handbook of Undergraduate Curriculum will prove valuable both to practitioners—as an operating manual or desk reference—and to faculty as a primary text for graduate courses on the curriculum. In addition, the book will be a useful tool for those serving on a general education curriculum committee or conducting a departmental review of a major program, as well as having numerous other practical applications for anyone with responsibility for or interest in the curriculum.
Author | : John von Heyking |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2016-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0773599290 |
Download Form of Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking’s The Form of Politics interprets the texts of Plato and Aristotle and emphasizes the role that friendship has in enduring philosophical and contemporary political contexts. Beginning with a discussion on virtue-friendship, described by Aristotle and Plato as an agreement on what qualifies as the pursuit of good, The Form of Politics demonstrates that virtue and political friendship form a paradoxical relationship in which political friendships need to be nourished by virtue-friendships that transcend the moral and intellectual horizons of the political society. Von Heyking then examines Aristotle’s ethical and political writings – which are set within the boundaries of political life – and Plato’s dialogues on friendship in Lysis and the Laws, which characterize political friendship as festivity. Ultimately, arguing that friendship is the high point of a virtuous political life, von Heyking presents a fresh interpretation of Aristotle and Plato’s political thought, and a new take on the most essential goals in politics. Inviting reassessment of the relationship between friendship and politics by returning to the origins of Western philosophy, The Form of Politics is a lucid work on the foundations of political cooperation.
Author | : Iain Hay |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2023-11-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 180392943X |
Download How to be an Academic Superhero Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This thoroughly revised second edition draws on the author’s decades of observations and experiences in academia, Written in a clear and concise style, the book provides fully updated, forthright and practical counsel on achieving and maintaining a successful, balanced career from PhD to retirement.