Closeness and distance: Using close reading as a method of educational enquiry in English studies by Helen Brookman &Julia Horn This article draws on a pedagogical case study in order to reflect on the value of using a
New issue of AHHE Academic on Freedom
Academic Freedom Forum http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/15/2.toc.pdf In a previous issue, Nobel prize-winner J.M. Coetzee argued that it was time for humanist academics to take a stand on academic freedom and argue ‘that we need free enquiry because freedom of thought is a
Arts and Humanities in HE New Issue: Meeting the Challenge
Meeting the challenges: This issue http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/current This issue starts with two examples of discipline-boundary-crossing materialculture projects: ‘Ethnography by design: On goals and mediating artefacts’(Fabian Segelstrom and Stefan Holmlid, pp. 134–149) and ‘Toward a pedagogy for faculty and student co-responsibility in
AACU to launch LEAP: Liberal Education and America’s Promise
Our friends at AACU (Association of American Colleges & Universities) are celebrating their centenary this month with a major event in Washington, DC. The Association is taking this opportunity to champion the benefits of liberal education, and are issuing a