Special Issue Flyer 14.1 As everyone involved, institutionally or personally, in academic performance evaluation will vouch for, policy-makers are increasingly demanding that academics justify themselves in terms of the ‘return’. This is a timely international forum on and advocacy for the impact
Emotional Bottlenecks to Learning
As professional historians, we are able to do history like professional rock climbers—without ropes, which to students might look something like this: You have to really like it to go for it. But you have to get ready for it,
An arts and cultural education Polylogue: Reflections
Earlier, we published Pat’s reflections on Days 1 & 2 and Days 3 & 4 of AN ARTS AND CULTURAL EDUCATION POLYLOGUE Here we have her post conference reflections – on networking and “reporting back” First posted on May 22, 2015 by pat thomson
A call: Public history and the new academic citizen
From ‘Back to the future? Public history and the new academic citizen’ By Alix Green. Published 05 March 2015 http://bit.ly/1cQb9xV in Public History Weekly BLOGJOURNAL FOR HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION: ‘We want to build bridges between research and application, politics and science, and the school and the
McGann: Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions
McGann on ‘Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions’ 14 May 2015, 17:00 – 18:30, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres, Cambridge Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) will give a Cambrdge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Science
A Response to The Guardian’s article “The War Against the Humanities at Britain’s Universities”
Having now read this article, I have come to realise that *surprise, surprise*, the heading is totally there for inflammatory purposes. This wasn’t simply an article going through the motions of discussing cuts to humanities funding and a governmental prejudice
Just publishedin AHHE-Stories on the Skin:Tattoo Culture at a South Florida university
“Stories on the Skin: Tattoo Culture at FAU” by Karen J Leader a multidisciplinary creative and research project, has explored and presented tattoos as a shared cultural experience, rather than as a symptom, or a fad. http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/16/1474022215575162.full.pdf+html Tattoo emerges from
What is really ‘higher’ about Higher Education?
by Jan McArthur, Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation, Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education, Dept. of Educational Research, Lancaster University What is really ‘higher’ about Higher Education? At a time in
The Interdisciplinary Scholar: Pushing at Boundaries, Feeling Bound
The Interdisciplinary Scholar: Pushing at Boundaries, Feeling Bound by Monica Prendergast, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Victoria I am an interdisciplinary scholar in theatre studies and drama education with interests in aesthetic philosophy, performance studies, curriculum studies and arts-based research. My