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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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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
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Hands-on versus virtual: Reshaping the design classroom with blended learning Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-02-23 Katja Fleischmann
The heart of design studio teaching is traditionally linked to one-on-one teaching activities and to the exchange of feedback prompting many design educators to think it does not lend itself to online delivery. This study explored how design educators can translate the essence of design studio pedagogy into a blended learning environment. The four-year study involving 119 first-year undergraduate design
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The case for the primacy of visualcy within a neoliberal Artschool curriculum Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-02-05 Howard Riley
Whilst the faculties of literacy and numeracy are rightly recognised as worthy of pedagogical nurturing, this article champions a more venerable articulacy – visualcy – crucial to a healthy culture, arguing that the one domain of human inquiry which distinguishes the visual arts from other disciplines is surely that surrounding the faculty of vision. The ascendency within the contemporary artworld
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Teaching intercultural competence through heavy metal music Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Daniel Guberman
What does it mean to teach intercultural competence? Do we need to travel to “other” places? In what way does content need to reflect the traditions of “other” cultures? How can popular musics inform our teaching of these skills? Drawing on the guidelines in the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric, I argue heavy metal music can serve as a model for using music to increase students’
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How argumentative writing stifles open-mindedness Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2020-01-29 James Southworth
A longstanding assumption within higher education is that there is a clear link between argumentative writing and critical thinking. In this paper, I challenge this assumption. I argue that argumentative writing genres of persuasion, inquiry, and consensus fail to target students’ open-mindedness, which is an important aspect of critical thinking. In particular, argumentative writing genres do not
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How do we integrate skills and content in classics? An inquiry into students’ use of sources Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-12-24 Karl A Goodwin, Kathleen M Quinlan
Engagement with primary sources is a key feature of arts and humanities subjects, particularly classics and ancient history. Recent instructional trends emphasise integrating skills with content, particularly in the first year of higher education. We investigate how successfully first-year university students used a variety of sources in an integrated skills and content course, through analysis of
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Critique and post-critique in contemporary art history: Excessive attachment to suspicion in academia and beyond Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-11-14 Sara Callahan
This essay offers a broad look at the way critique as a mode, method, and attitude in post-war art history research and teaching intersects with occurrences of critique in humanities scholarship and teaching generally, but also how distorted forms of critique occur in contexts outside the academic field. The essay outlines concerns raised by humanities scholars with what they consider to be an over-reliance
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Ensemble practices in the arts: A reflective matrix to enhance team work and collaborative learning in higher education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-11-07 Helena Gaunt, Danielle Shannon Treacy
Ensemble practices have been essential to the performing and visual fine arts over centuries. The skills of working in ensembles, including team work and collaborative learning, are increasingly understood to be critical and transferable professional attributes. However, much teaching of ensembles is practical and embodied, relying on tacit knowledge within a focused specialism. This kind of approach
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An inclusive pedagogy in Arts and Humanities university classrooms: What faculty members do Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-10-24 Rafael Carballo, Almudena Cotán, Yolanda Spinola-Elias
This article shows the educational strategies developed by faculty members that their students with disabilities considered as excellent for carrying out an inclusive pedagogy in Higher Education. ...
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HASS PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer: A conduit for enduring, multi-sector networks Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-08-31 Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert, Christine Schmidt, Craig Batty
Rising worldwide scrutiny of the PhD has focused on issues such as return on investment and career outcomes. This article investigates PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer looking at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). Firstly, our extensive literature review of PhD graduate outcomes reveals limited knowledge of HASS careers and a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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A qualitative investigation of stress related to studying architecture at degree level in the UK Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-08-19 Yarong Xie, Anum Yaqoob, Warren Mansell, Sara Tai
Architecture students have been reported to experience significant stress, yet little has been researched. This study aims to examine how architecture students experience and cope with stress. Twel...
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‘Don’t hold me back’: Using poetic inquiry to explore university educators’ experiences of professional development through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-13 Daphne Loads, Hazel Marzetti, Velda McCune
Institutional schemes that offer financial and other support to carry out Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects have a valuable part to play in the personal and professional development of academic staff. We investigated the experiences of 12 recipients of the University of Edinburgh Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scheme awards, drawing on a poetic inquiry approach in order to
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Mapping the emotional journey of the doctoral ‘hero’: Challenges faced and breakthroughs made by creative arts and humanities candidates Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-02 Craig Batty, Elizabeth Ellison, Alison Owens, Donna Brien
This article discusses how doctoral candidates identify and navigate personal learning challenges on their journey to becoming researchers. Our study asked creative arts and humanities candidates to think beyond the research project itself and reflect on emotional hurdles they were facing or had overcome. The findings point to a great deal of ‘invisible’ work that underpins doctoral study, and show
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Urban cultural intermediaries: Reflections on pedagogy and creativity in the urban economy Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Jonathan Vickery
This article is a critical reflection on a creative practice course module that runs each year in the city of Coventry. The module aims to develop student skills appropriate to the creative and cultural industries, while maintaining an emphatic radical dimension in raising the students’ social consciousness on the urban context of their skills development. Between 2016 and 2018 the module attracted
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The university as intermediary for the creative economy: Pedagogues, policy-makers and creative workers in the curriculum Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Dave Harte, Paul Long, Annette Naudin
This article examines the nature and role of courses designed to train creative workers, policy-makers and related actors, in the skills necessary for cultural management, enterprise or intermediation and their relationship in apprehending the sector. The article takes a case study approach, engaging with university policy, student research, reflections from graduates and staff who have participated
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Creative economy, cultural economics and entrepreneurship – Questions for a masters programme in its adolescence. An Interview with Mariangela Lavanga and Ellen Loots Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Jonathan Vickery, Mariangela Lavanga, Ellen Loots
The purpose of this interview is to discuss the aims, objectives and achievements of a pioneering European masters degree – in the context of the politics of higher education and the economics of the creative industries.
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The politics of temporal sovereignty and the subaltern MA Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Jeremy Valentine
This paper explains the emergence of an MA in Culture and Creative Enterprise at a Scottish University by locating it within a policy context characterised by the attempt of the Scottish Government to establish ‘temporal sovereignty’ through ‘fast policy’. The argument of the paper is that the MA is an outcome of the Scottish Government’s attempt to establish the sovereignty of a ‘future present’ over
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Teaching ‘tacit knowledge' in cultural and creative industries to international students Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Xin Gu, Justin O'Connor
Universities in Australia – as in many other Anglophone countries – have benefited from an influx of full fee paying international students. Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) as an increasingly desirable career for these students and associated with rising state investment has given Anglophone universities the privilege in this international educational market. The disembeddedness of these students
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Pedagogy as activist practice: A reflection on the Cultural Policy and Management degree in South Africa Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Avril Joffe
This paper discusses the pedagogical responses of the Wits University Cultural Policy and Management Department to the needs of our students in the postcolonial context of South Africa. It reviews the challenges experienced by our postgraduate students and the resultant innovations in both curriculum design and learning and teaching practice. While in many respects the drivers for this programme are
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Organisational aesthetics and pedagogy: Deframing the creative and cultural labour formation Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Marcin Poprawski
The first objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the curricula offered by Polish higher education institutions aimed at future workers in the culture and creative sectors. Desk research is supplemented by a qualitative analysis of students’ needs on professional education and the perception of cultural labour in Poland, and concluding remarks attempt to provide a preliminary response
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Creating critical mass in cultural management education: Learning from an arts and cultural management programme in Turkey Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Serhan Ada
If today the departments of “cultural management” (in its broadest term) have been in existence for almost four decades, it is in part because of the existence of the “cultural industries”. If this concept’s founder and critical theorist, Theodore Adorno, indeed stigmatised cultural industries as “predominance of profit … over culture”, how can the rise and importance of this academic field be accounted
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Teaching the cultural and creative industries: An international perspective Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-05-01 Justin O’Connor, Xin Gu, Jonathan Vickery
Dedicated to the memory our late colleagues, Dr Anna Upchurch (1957–2016) and Dr Lorraine Lim (1980–2017), both of whom attended the symposium from which this Special Issue emerged (Prato, September 2016), and both of whom were to make valuable contributions.
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In praise of lameness: A response to William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-28 David Hayes
In Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz describes ‘elite’ higher education as one in which students perform excellently, but only in a spirit of compliance with assigned tasks. The depth of this problem – which has a long pedigree in philosophy – is such that an advantage might be found in non-‘elite’ and even manifestly lame education. This advantage is illustrated through the story of a low point
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Fashioning a master’s degree Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-16 Annick Schramme, Ian W King
Fashion has a varied and explosive history. Our responsibility as educators preparing students and therefore careers for this context places us in a very difficult and complex position. Do we prepare students to be successful or do we prepare them to ‘invest’ in their industry? In this paper, we construct our story of developing an ethical, sustainable international master’s degree in Fashion Management
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Students’ views of the architectural design review: The design crit in East Africa Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-12 Mark RO Olweny
The design studio and the associated design review can be regarded as the signature pedagogy of architectural education, where students garner the essence of what it means to be an architect. Here, novices are transformed into architects through the acquisition of architectural cultural capital. This paper investigates the design review in East African schools of architecture from a student’s perspective
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Stories of moving on HASS PhD graduates’ motivations and career trajectories inside and beyond academia Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-11 Cally Guerin
It is widely accepted that the academic job market is very limited and unlikely to expand any time soon, yet enrolments in PhDs continue to rise. If the PhD is no longer preparation for academia, where do these graduates go on completing their degrees? This study of Australian PhD graduates in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) explores motivations to undertake a research degree, their experiences
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“Reflective of my best work”: Promoting inquiry-based learning in a hybrid graduate history course Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-09 Nate Sleeter, Kelly Schrum, Amy Swan, Justin Broubalow
Abstract This article discusses authentic inquiry-based learning in a hybrid graduate course, Teaching Hidden History, taught in 2015 and 2016. Students in this course created online history learning modules based on their own scholarly research. They defined their intended audience and crafted modules tailored specifically for those learners. The authors draw on course assignments, student modules
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Building an authentic cultural curriculum through tertiary cultural dance Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-06 Kym Stevens, Rachel A Pedro, Stephanie J Hanrahan
This study identified a range of pedagogies developed to promote global citizenship within a university Latin American dance unit. It implemented changes to teaching and learning approaches in the unit using the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) 5E Instructional Model, supporting learning that privileges transcultural connections to Latin America. The action research used a range of dance
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Not scraping the bottom of the barrel: Disadvantage, diversity and deficit as rich points Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-03-06 Adrian Hale
First-year students’ literacy deficits are not the problem. They are emblematic of an overall skill set which can be scaffolded from the first year of university study. If we treat literacy deficits as contingent upon other items of motivation, and as an element of Academic Motivational Literacy, we can usually also see these deficits as ‘rich points’ (Agar (2000) Border lessons: linguistic “rich points”
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Listening out and dealing with otherness. A postcolonial approach to higher education teaching Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2019-02-26 Angelika Thielsch
Postcolonial pedagogy invites academic teaching staff to create situations, in which hegemonic modes of knowledge production can be critically reflected and one’s own entanglement as disciplinary socialised member of (western) academia experienced. Such a postcolonial approach has been applied to a seminar in the context of cultural musicology and its impact on teaching and learning analysed. In this
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Defending academic freedom: Arts and Humanities research as constrained writing Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-11-19 Mary Anne Francis
This article notes that while there is a large literature lamenting increasing assaults on academic freedom, there is little literature to address ways in which it might be preserved. Sampling that writing, it finds some concern with protecting academic freedom in extreme scenarios, via discrete programmes, and generalised dissidence, but no discussion of determinate action applicable to all Arts and
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The humanities meet STEM: Five approaches for humanists Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-10-25 Daniel W Gleason
With STEM education garnering an increasing share of educational budgets and press, humanities teachers should consider how to respond to the growing power of math and science. Should humanists read the writing on the wall and tether themselves to the economic engine of STEM? Or should humanists separate themselves, retreating securely into their own disciplinary homes? Middle ground options, including
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Insights from studio teaching practices in a Creative Industries Faculty in Australia Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-09-25 Marianella Chamorro-Koc, Anoma Kurimasuriyar
Studio teaching is a long standing tradition and a signature pedagogy across a broad range of art and creative disciplines, from arts to architecture and design. However, the practice of studio teaching varies across disciplines and practitioners. Do these variances indicate different signature pedagogies in the creative disciplines? An exploratory study was conducted to examine how studio teaching
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Theatricalization of enterprise education: A call for “action” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-08-28 Gospel Onyema Oparaocha, Pokidko Daniil
Changing environment requires not just creativity, but disruptive creativity. The traditional planning paradigm within business organizations heavily relies on long- and short-term forecasting in order to predict the future and plan accordingly. However, a large share of business development is now characterized by rapid changes, inconsistency and unpredictability. Taking that into account a key task
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The topographies of literary study Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-08-27 Christopher Lloyd
Pedagogic criticism, Ben Knights argues in this wide-ranging and thoughtful book, is an attempt to “bring into focus the transactions between the study and interpretation of texts and the social forms and rituals of pedagogy” (1). Knights draws together a historiography of the rise of English Studies in the UK, literary criticism, close readings of writers from Henry James to Annie Proulx, as well
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Shifting paradigms in environmental research methods through the visual arts Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-07-26 Abram W Kaplan
Arts-based research offers a potentially valuable approach for students trained in the positivist tradition of environmental issues to expand their repertoire. This article traces the experience of students in an undergraduate course that examines the US food system through immersive photography, using arts-based research as the core methodological theme of exploration and inquiry. The research approach
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An a/r/tographic exploration of engagement in theatrical performance: What does this mean for the student/teacher relationship? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-07-11 Drew Bird, Katy Tozer
With an emphasis on self-study and the connections between the personal and the professional domain, the authors reflect upon their teaching practice on a postgraduate theatre-based course using the research methodology of a/r/tography. The aim was to develop understanding of teacher/student roles and how these can affect learning. Through researcher reflexivity, focus groups and questionnaires, data
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The Humanities And The University: Craig Calhoun Interviewed Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-04-26 Peter Vale
In this interview Craig Calhoun talks about universities, the Humanities and his own research. Universities reinvent themselves in the face of societal and technological change. In the midst of this change, however, universities are charged with maintaining old ideals, with informing the public and creating opportunities for human development. The Humanities often bemoan these changes but they are
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‘Out in the middle’. Humanities, interdisciplinary and the post-graduate puzzle: An interview with Professor Wiljan van den Akker Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-03-07 Peter Vale
Wiljan van den Akker is a university professor, a respected academic administrator, and a published poet and writer. From a base at the Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, his three-decade long career spans three continents and includes one-on-one associations with Berkeley, UCLA and Oxford. Currently, he is the Vice-Rector for Research at Utrecht but retains the title he was awarded in 2003, Distinguished
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Online design education: Searching for a middle ground Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Katja Fleischmann
At its heart, design is a studio-based discipline, which makes it difficult for design educators to adopt technology-driven changes into an online teaching and learning environment. Globally, few universities offer online undergraduate degree design courses, despite an overall growth in online higher degree curricula. Anecdotal evidence and limited research studies exploring the design educators’ view
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Inquiry-based reading – Towards a conception of reading as a research method Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-02-27 Lina Katan, Charlotte Andreas Baarts
Reading is an activity in which both researchers and students invest immense time and energy. However, reading is disregarded as a research method and generally assigned a marginal position as a mere supplement to empirical hands-on methods. In this article we argue that reading should be recognized as a method of inquiry. Based on qualitative interviews with 20 researchers from a humanities department
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Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-02-23 Joyce Lu
Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College examines the production of an Asian American hip-hop musical, directed by the author, at a private liberal arts college in the US. This article demonstrates how the production process was determined by the complex history of racial formation and relations in America. Those who were extremely attached to standardized Eurocentric
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Aesthetic cognitivism: Towards a concise case for doctoral research through practices in the visual arts Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-02-20 Howard Riley
This article addresses a question still frequently posed in the context of UK universities which offer courses in the visual arts: Does the PhD research model of contributing new knowledge fit art, where there are no definitive answers and the main strength of the research is its ability to question?, answering in the positive by distinguishing between propositional knowledge and understanding. It
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The Roehampton Campus Project: Using campus, collections and memories of the university as a learning and teaching resource for Humanities students Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-02-19 Charlotte Behr, Sonya Nevin
In this article, we present a newly developed undergraduate module that is taught in the Humanities Department of the University of Roehampton. Campus and university themselves are the topics of the module. The module provides an opportunity for the students to engage academically with their environment. They study not only many interesting stories related to the campus, its buildings and artworks
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A narrative approach to interactive information visualization in the digital humanities classroom Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-02-19 Sonia H Stephens
Humanities researchers have expressed concern about the uncritical adoption of information visualization techniques originating in the sciences by digital humanities classrooms. This paper describes an approach to information visualization that encourages students to foreground humanistic concerns by adopting a narrative focus. This approach to visualization development brings interdisciplinary perspectives
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The seeing place: Talking theatre and medicine Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2018-01-12 Deborah Bowman, Joanna Bowman
A Professor of Medical Ethics and a theatre director, also mother and daughter, talk about health, illness, suffering, performance and practice. Using the lenses of ethical and performance theory, they explore what it means to be a patient, a spectator and a practitioner and cover many plays, texts and productions: Samuel Beckett’s Not I and All That Fall, Sarah Kane’s Crave, Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree
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