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Literary reading as a web of relationships: Implications for pedagogy at a South African university Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Maria Prozesky, Naomi Nkealah
We teach English literature in South Africa, to third- or fourth-language English speakers. Increasingly dissatisfied with the effectiveness of our pedagogy under conditions of massification, we seek to agitate propositions about our students’ reading and what these propositions means for our pedagogy. Drawing on narrative theory we analyse our students’ written responses to a portfolio assessment
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Cultural stories: Curriculum design learnings from an arts-based Australian university project in Timor-Leste Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Rachel A. Mathews, Kym Stevens, George Meijer
This paper investigates the preparation of Australian undergraduate university arts students for a life challenging arts-teaching and creative experience in Timor-Leste. It explores university teac...
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A systematic literature review of cognitive exchange in higher degree visual art education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Rebecca Heaton, Shannon Chan Lai Kuan
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 exch...
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For what it’s worth: European Arts & humanities graduates’ employability and their engagement in society Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Roberta Comunian, Sarah Jewell, Adesola Sunmoni, Tamsyn Dent
How do European Arts and Humanities (A&H) graduates contribute to their economies and societies? This paper aims to answer this challenging research question by analysing data from the 2018 pilot E...
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The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Silvia McCormack, Paula Baron
In Australia, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties are under pressure to demonstrate that their degrees result in employable graduates. Employability has become a key strategic goa...
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Cutting the STEM of future skills: beyond the STEM vs art dichotomy in England Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Heidi Ashton
For the last decade education policy in England has been underpinned by a dichotomisation of education into STEM versus Arts. The rationale is that STEM graduates gain more lucrative employment via...
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A mismatch: Why non-tenured teachers are ill-prepared to deal with the perceived job insecurity of students in the humanities Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Vincent CA Crone
Most of the instructional workforce within the humanities in countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and The Netherlands comprises non-tenure track appointments. This commentar...
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Skills as stepping stones for employability: Perception research into the skills of Humanities students Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Melina De Dijn, Catho Jacobs, Eline Zenner, Laura Ihalainen, Minna Palander-Collin, Elizabeth Peterson, Sanne Arens, Mirjam De Baar, Jeroen Touwen, Liesbet Heyvaert
OECD reports a mismatch between field of study and job content for Humanities students, while at the same time signalling labour market shortages for skills that seem clearly linked with the Humani...
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Mapping Eve: A new materialist approach to concept maps as “working objects” in the humanities classroom Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Ingie Hovland
This article presents a SoTL study of students’ use of concept maps in my undergraduate class “Women in Christian History,” in a mid-semester module called “the Eve project.” I present three studen...
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In the name of employability: Faculties and futures for the arts and humanities in higher education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Daniel Ashton, Dawn Bennett, Zoe Hope Bulaitis, Michael Tomlinson
This introductory overview sets out the scope and aims of the special issue, which is concerned with establishing more meaningful understandings and discourses on the relationship between arts and ...
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Art and/as open education: A collaborative action with refugee artists Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Anna Apostolidou
The article illustrates the potential of engaged arts-based pedagogies in higher education with respect to integration interventions for young refugees in Europe. It discusses the conception and im...
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‘Still not scraping the bottom of the barrel’: ‘Rich points’, feedback, disadvantaged students, and solutions Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Adrian Hale
This article builds on research, previously published in this journal, which tracked student outcomes in a first year core course in an Australian university over the space of 6 years. That researc...
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Crafting professionals: Logics of professional development in craft higher education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Lauren England
This article explores how the presence of competing logics in craft higher education (HE) influences educational provision and student experience. Findings are presented from four craft HE case stu...
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Undergraduate language programmes in England: A widening participation crisis Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Becky Muradás-Taylor
England has a language education crisis: fewer people are studying languages at school and university language programmes are closing. This study analyses data from the Universities and Colleges Ad...
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Identifying the phases of learning in an Australasian undergraduate architecture design studio model Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Naima Iftikhar, Philip Crowther, Lindy Osborne Burton
An understanding of the theoretical basis of the design learning process, and the resulting partnership between students and teachers in contemporary design studios, is required to optimise learnin...
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Poems and pedagogic frailty: uncovering the affective within teacher development through collective biography Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Ian Kinchin, Kieran Balloo, Laura Barnett, Karen Gravett, Marion Heron, Anesa Hosein, Simon Lygo-Baker, Emma Medland, Naomi Winstone, Nadya Yakovchuk
To explore the affective domains embedded in academic development and teacher practice, a team of academic developers was invited to consider a poem and how it reflects the emotions and feelings un...
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Artists as tricksters: Exploring boundary crossing between theory and practice in a new doctor of creative arts program Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Beata Batorowicz, Margaret Baguley, Martin Kerby
This article explores how artist-researchers navigate the “uncertain” space between theory and practice in a new Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) program in an Australian regional university. The tric...
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O tempora: The current presence of classics and ancient history in Australian and New Zealand public universities Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Michael B Charles, Marcus Harmes
The study of classics has been part of Australian and New Zealand higher education from the beginnings of tertiary education in these countries, followed shortly after by the study of ancient histo...
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‘Lacking’ subjects: Challenging the construction of the ‘empowered’ graduate in museum, gallery and heritage studies Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Emma Coffield, Katie Markham, Jessica Crosby, Maria Athanassiou, Cecilia Stenbom
This article challenges what is now a common assumption in Higher Education; that teaching for employability will result in enabled and empowered graduates. Drawing upon empirical data, and Foucaul...
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Benefits, co-operation and development—The relationship between a music academy and four amateur symphony orchestras Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Lia Lonnert
The focus in this study is the relationships between one tertiary music academy and four amateur orchestras. In this study the kinds of cooperation that exist, how students benefit from participati...
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Sparking the academic curriculum with creativity: Students’ discourse on what matters in research dissemination practice Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Chloé Dierckx, Bieke Zaman, Karin Hannes
Despite the growing interest of academia in public outreach, little is known about what university students, among who are future researchers, take away from their academic education in terms of re...
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“A new way of asking why”: The transformative promise of integrative global learning Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Cathy Marie Ouellette
The question of how to engage undergraduate students in global learning is even more imperative given recent shifts in the global landscape and in higher education. Utilizing the value rubrics esta...
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Music teachers’ self-reported views of creativity in the context of their work Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Andrea Schiavio, Dylan van der Schyff, Roberta Antonini Philippe, Michele Biasutti
What are the main views and perceptions of creativity of a music teacher? By administering an open-ended questionnaire to 11 music teachers, we sought to elicit responses to clarify what are their ...
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Employability ecosystems in music: (Re)navigating a life in music (in precarious times) Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Karen Burland, Liz Mellor, Christine Bates
Preparing students to navigate a life in music involves understanding how they develop awareness of their personal and professional identities, build networks, and reflect on practice in order to s...
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Understanding doctoral progress assessment in the arts and humanities Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Matthew Sillence
This study examines the early-stage progress assessment for doctoral candidates at a British university through the perceptions of academic staff who acted as assessors. It was conducted in respons...
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Student engagement, pedagogical imaginaries and the future of arts and humanities teaching and learning in higher education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Neil Hughes
This article sets out a methodology for integrating a focus on the student voice in deliberations about the future of teaching and learning in the Arts and Humanities. Qualitative data gleaned from...
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Humanities at the center: Insights from building a public humanities program Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Molly Hiro, Jen McDaneld
This essay uses the experience of building a new public humanities program to explore approaches for revitalizing the field. While public humanities scholars have recently focused much of their att...
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Novel, original, and business as usual: Contributing in the humanities Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Tomas Hellström
This paper focuses on how contributions are argued in research proposals in the humanities. Due to standardizing tendencies in research funding towards formats characteristic of science, technology...
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Epistemic decoloniality of westernised higher education: A discourse on curriculum justice and knowledge integration at historically white universities in South Africa Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Wilson B Asea
This article seeks to delve deeper into the discourse about the epistemic decoloniality of Westernised higher education in South Africa. Discrete academic studies have indicated that African Knowle...
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Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Ana Mendes, Lisa Lau
Contributing to the debate on decolonising the curriculum, this reflective article questions: What does a safe space in a decolonised classroom mean? For whom is it safe? And at what cost? Must we ...
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There and (not quite) back again: A theatre and performance instructional team’s journey through COVID-19 in Australia Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Hannah Joyce Banks, Carl Walling, Jo Loth
This article details the journey of a Theatre and Performance team working in Australian higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using reflective practice informed by Social Constructivism, ...
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Modeling the art historical canon Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Laura M F Bertens
Although the art historical canon has been the subject of fierce debate, it remains an essential construct, shaping textbooks and survey courses. Visual representations of the canon often illustrat...
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The staff–student co-design of an online resource for pre-arrival arts and humanities students Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Kathryn Woods, Damien Homer
Successful induction has been evidenced to strengthen students’ learning, engagement and feelings of belonging. Technology offers opportunities for enhancing the student induction experience, especially pre-arrival, but has been under-utilised. This article provides an evaluation of an online induction learning resource for pre-arrival students in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick in
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Playful approaches to learning as a realm for the humanities in the culture of higher education: A hermeneutical literature review Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Julie Borup Jensen, Oline Pedersen, Ole Lund, Helle Marie Skovbjerg
This article presents playfulness as an emerging approach to learning in higher education that emphasises the arts and humanities across disciplines. The article is based on a qualitative, hermeneutical literature review in light of educational culture in higher education. The literature review indicates that playful approaches to learning stand in opposition to educational cultures that focus on rapidness
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Speculating on the liberal arts: Exploring possible futures for humanities education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Sean Steele
The article draws on concepts from speculative design to explore an alternative educational group existing outside the boundaries of an accredited university. Inspired by the imaginative approach of speculative design, I propose a small-scale reading and discussion group as a pathway to explore possible futures open to aspects of humanities education. The concept aims to reposition elements of the
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Teaching historical literacies to digital learners via popular culture Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Rhiannon Evans, Sarah Midford
We argue that students can understand an historical period by building on the foundations of their existing knowledge. Specifically, popular media can be used to develop students’ historical literacies – that is their ability to engage with past societies vastly different from their own. Our methodology takes inspiration from the ancient Romans’ own partial literacies and utilises pedagogy drawn from
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A critical appraisal of interdisciplinary research and education in British Higher Education Institutions: A path forward? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Laura H Evis
This article examines the development, impact and integration of interdisciplinary approaches in British Higher Education Institutions. It evaluates how the concept of interdisciplinarity has become popularised over time and embraced by disciplines such as archaeology. It then explores the extent to which interdisciplinary approaches have impacted research agendas, first, by evaluating the interdisciplinary
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Developing student capacity to produce digital scholarship in the humanities Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Kelly Schrum
Despite the increased use of technology in higher education classrooms, we need a better understanding of pedagogical strategies that improve student ability to produce quality scholarly digital content in the humanities. This research was designed to examine student learning through scholarly digital storytelling, a technology-enhanced assessment. The researcher collected data during and after an
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Student and tutor perceptions of the pedagogical potential and challenges of design jury as an assessment method Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Derya Yorgancıoğlu, Sevinç Tunalı, Meltem Çetinel
This article examines the pedagogical potential and challenges of the design jury as an assessment method from the perceptions of the tutor/jury member and the design students. It aims to gain an understanding of the factors that create opportunities for, and barriers to, the promotion of learning in the design jury. It inquires the possible contributions of the jury into formative evaluation processes
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Work placements in the media and creative industries: Discourses of transformation and critique in an era of precarity Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Michelle Phillipov
As graduate labour market conditions have become increasingly challenging, higher education institutions have intensified their focus on ‘employability’ via strategies such as work placements. Focusing on work placements in the media and creative industries, this article identifies and analyses three key discourses that animate the pedagogical literature in these sectors: work placements as facilitating
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Exploring the integration of teaching and research in the contemporary classroom: An autoethnographic inquiry into designing an undergraduate music module on Adele’s 25 album Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-05-26 Christopher Wiley
This study seeks to investigate aspects of the relationship between the core academic activities of teaching and research in higher education, through a theoretically enriched discussion of the design of an innovative popular music module on Adele’s 25 album and its delivery to first-year undergraduates on a general-purpose music degree during the academic years 2015–21. Drawing on autoethnographic
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Reading texts, reading people: Cognitive literary science and pedagogy Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Amanda Tucker
Cognitive literary science has explored the the complex relationship between literary reading and social cognition. However, this insightful work about reading literature is frequently distanced from discussions about teaching literature. This essay discusses the results and ramifications of a pedagogical study conducted in two sections of an introductory literature course that was redesigned around
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Giovanna Fassetta, Nazmi Al-Masri and Alison Phipps (eds), Multilingual online academic collaborations as resistance: Crossing impassable borders Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Toni Mclaughlan
Reviewed by: Toni Mclaughlan, Lancaster University, UK
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Brokering reflective spaces: Experiential learning in a summer opera program Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Kelly Bylica, Sophie Louise Roland, Laura Benjamins
Formal music performance studies within university settings strive to prepare the next generation of performers and pedagogues for musical engagement beyond university. Yet literature suggests that these spaces of study do not always lead to a sense of readiness for potential professional worlds, due in part to a lack of opportunities for guided, in-depth, critical reflection that helps students connect
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(Re)encountering A Thousand Plateaus: Producing 1000 trail(ing)s Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Rebecca C Christ, Candace R Kuby, Sarah B Shear, Amber Ward
We, now colleagues, look to our “first” collective encounter with Deleuze and Guattari that took place in a university course on poststructuralism, where one of us was the teacher and three were students. This encounter still disturbs us. And new and different encounters happen each time we reread A Thousand Plateaus, revisit our previous conversations, and/or rewrite this manuscript. Each encounter
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Philosophy’s rematch: A new conceptualization of the study of higher education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Gabe A Orona
In recent decades, philosophy has been identified as a general approach to enhance the maturity of higher education as a field of study by enriching theory and method. In this article, I offer a new set of philosophical recommendations to spur the disciplinary development of higher education, departing from previous work in several meaningful ways. Due to their deep and useful connections to higher
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Plagiarism of the implicit concept in interior design projects: Does it exist? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Abeer A Alawad, Donia M Bettaieb, Raif B Malek
Design spaces can be read in two complementary structural and compositional dimensions: the implicit dimension, and the formal dimension. This study aimed to answer the following questions: What are the phases of the original idea transformation in the design process? Does taking advantage of the implicit dimension of others’ interior spaces count as inspiration or plagiarism? Participants comprised
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Widening HE participation in the arts: Impacts of an access module on learner preparedness Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-03-25 John Butcher, Anactoria Clarke
Despite the plethora of research on widening participation in the last 20 years, access to the arts and humanities has remained relatively under-explored, especially in relation to the preparedness of adult learners. This article reports a case study investigating the impact of an arts and languages Access module at the UK Open University. Findings from interviews with 37 Access students were analysed
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Protectionism and rapprochement in Turkish higher music education: An analysis of the mission and vision statements of conservatoires and university music departments in the republic of Turkey Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Tom Parkinson, Olcay Muslu Gardner
Music education institutions have played a prominent role in mediating national identity in the Republic of Turkey since its founding in 1923. Initially tasked with suppressing Ottoman heritage, their nature and status changed with the ascendance of political Islam, when interest in Turkey’s Ottoman past grew and the Western aesthetics of the founding elite were increasingly contested. While music
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What if we think of the classroom as a work of art? Performance, collaboration, and social engagement considered as pedagogic practices Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Theron Schmidt
This article brings into relation critical perspectives and practical tactics from a range of different fields—performance studies, visual art practice, pedagogy and educational theory, and activism and community organising—in order to create some space for re-imagining what might be possible within the dynamics of the Higher Education classroom. It proceeds through a series of speculative modes: ‘what
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Chick, Nancy L. (ed.). SoTL in Action: Illuminating Critical Moments of Practice Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Maik Arnold
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Place matters: Thinking about spaces for humanities practices Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
This essay reflects on the role of place for humanities practices and contributes to emerging discussions on infrastructure for the humanities and socio-material conditions of scholarly knowledge production. I provide a theoretical framework for studying venues for humanities work drawing on the phenomenological approach to the concepts of place and space, the pedagogical perspective on learning spaces
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The role of liberal arts in a skills economy: A case study in Oman Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-08-23 Kirsten Hemmy, Sandhya Rao Mehta
This study focuses on the place and role of the humanities, especially the liberal arts in emerging economies which rely vastly on the development of national skills and expertise. It is based on one example of a publicly funded university in Oman where the urgency of creating a skilled workforce has led to an exercise in aligning higher education with the creation of an employable pool of skilled
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Critical thinking and the humanities: A case study of conceptualizations and teaching practices at the Section for Cinema Studies at Stockholm University Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Joel Frykholm
The raison d’être of the humanities is widely held to reside in its unique ability to generate critical thinking and critical thinkers. But what is “critical thinking?” Is it a generalized mode of reasoning or a form of political critique? How does it relate to discipline-specific practices of scholarly pursuit? How does it relate to discourses of “post-truth” and “alternative facts”? How is it best
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Negotiating partnership models in the humanities: The possibility of collaboration within undergraduate English courses Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Eloise Symonds
Recognising the popularity of partnership models, this article questions the current literature on partnership within the humanities and explores the possibility of effectively implementing partnership within the English discipline, through exploration of the traditional modes of learning associated with specific disciplines and the barriers that exist through the traditional teacher-learner dynamic
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Surfacing disciplinarity: Citation as a site for integrative learning Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Emily Russell, Lucy Littler, Nancy Chick
Despite nearly ubiquitous general education requirements for students to take courses across disciplines, disciplinarity itself is often invisible to students and taken for granted by professors. We argue that surfacing these divisions and demystifying academic structures is, paradoxically, a key step in educating students toward the crossing of intellectual borders. In this article, we engage current
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Corrigendum Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-05-06
Clapp J, DeCoursey M, Lee SWS, et al. (2020) “Something fruitful for all of us”: Social annotation as a signature pedagogy for literature education. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1177/1474022220915128
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Creativity is for poets and pop singers, isn’t it? Academic perspectives on creativity in doctoral writing Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-05-06 Steven Thurlow
This paper investigates how eight academic research supervisors working in a Faculty of Arts at a research-intensive Australian university understand the notion of creativity in doctoral writing; both in relation to what it is and where it is found. This question was investigated qualitatively through interviews focusing on reader reception to three, short doctoral texts. A framework of indexicality
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From Sherbrooke to Stratford and back again: Team teaching and experiential learning through “Shakesperience” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-03-12 Jessica Riddell, Shannon Murray, Lisa Dickson
Attempting to teach theater in an English Literature course is a daunting prospect. A far cry from the highly individual experience of reading a novel or poem, theater is both a visual and communal kind of engagement. It is a challenge to capture this medium in a traditional lecture-based classroom and harder still to convey its three-dimensionality to undergraduate students. In this paper, we argue
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Inquiry-based learning in the Humanities: Moving from topics to problems using the “Humanities imagination” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Jakob E Feldt, Eva B Petersen
In this article, we present a new perspective on how to combine inquiry-based, problem-oriented learning with practices in the Humanities. Our particular interest is how the initial phase of finding “the problem” can be undertaken in a conjoint way with students, that is in the form of inquiry-based learning where there are no pre-defined questions set by the teacher. Inspired by C. Wright Mills, we