The place of humanities in our universities
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The place of humanities in our universities
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume examines the critical role of the humanities in universities in India and attempts to redefine its place, meaning and function in education. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the country, it debates the status and predicament of the humanities in the academic programmes within universities. The issues raised here touch upon the entire gamut of problems that a university faces in finding an adequate, rightful and wholesome place for the humanities in its academic curriculum. It discusses the difficulties in the specific identity of disciplines classed under the humanities, the powerful reach of the sciences and technological inroads in the teaching and practice of all disciplines, the relative academic balancing of disciplines in different universities in India, the culture, value and the idea of the university, digitisation of the humanities and online access and their specific impact on research in the concerned disciplines. The volume also presents an instructive debate on the so-called appropriation of traditional social science concerns by other departments.
This book will interest those in education, humanities and social sciences, governance and public policy, and South Asian studies.
Table of Contents
Contributors. Preface. Introduction 1. The Humanities in The English-Speaking West 2. Re-Defining the Humanities: Place, Meaning, Function 3. The Place of Humanities 4. The Predicament of the Humanities: Reading through Bill Reading's The University in Ruins 5. Humanities in the Age of their Digital Operability 6. The Indispensability of Humanities 7. Are We in for Post-Humanist Post-Humanities? 8. Some Stacato Observations on Interactive Studies 9. Imaginaries of Ignorance: Five Ideas of the University and The Place of Humanities Within Them 10. What Humanities/ Sicial Sciences Can Mean: Transmuting 'Two Cultures' Idea 11. MOOCs: Virtual But Not Virtuous 12. The Place of Humanities in University Education. Index
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