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

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Dennis Ahlburg (Trinity University, USA)

The Changing Face of Higher Education

Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities?

Dennis Ahlburg (Trinity University, USA)

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Routledge
09 July 2018

Higher & further education, tertiary education; Teaching skills & techniques

Series: International Studies in Higher Education

Over the last decade, a heated debate has raged in the US and the UK over whether the humanities are in crisis, and, if there is one, what form this crisis takes and what the response should be. Questioning how there can be such disagreement over a fundamental point, The Changing Face of Higher Education explores this debate, asking whether the humanities are in crisis after all by objectively evaluating the evidence at hand, and opening the debate up to a global scale by applying the questions to twelve countries from different continents.

Each carefully chosen contributor considers the debate from the perspective of a different country. The chapters present data on funding, student enrolment in the humanities, whether the share of total enrolment in this area is falling, and answer the following questions:

What does each country mean by the 'humanities'?

Is there a 'crisis' in the humanities in this country?

What are the causes for the crisis?

What are the implications for the humanities disciplines?

Uniquely offering an objective evaluation of whether this crisis exists, the book will appeal to international humanities and higher education communities and policy-makers, including postgraduate students and academics.

Edited by: Dennis Ahlburg (Trinity University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9781138244832
ISBN 10: 113824483X
Series: International Studies in Higher Education
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 09 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.