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Sujung Kim, Editor; Leigh Garrison-Fletcher, Editor; Kaysi Holman, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Collectivism, Social Structure, Class Activities
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Campion, Corey – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2018
Contrary to the narrative of collapse that attends much of the discussion of the humanities today, recent data suggest that for many programs in the United States, at least, stagnation is the real challenge. Committed to teaching models that support faculty rather than student needs, graduate programs, in particular, are struggling to extend their…
Descriptors: Humanities, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Small Colleges
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Mittman, Elizabeth; Santos, Krsna – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
Graduate education in the humanities struggles with weighty traditions, constrained (fiscal) resources, and a legacy of elitism and cultural homogeneity. As the makeup of graduate students becomes ever more diverse in terms of income, ethnicity, sexuality, citizenship, and disability, graduate programs are working through the challenges and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Humanities, Student Diversity, Nontraditional Students
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Tremonte, Colleen M. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This article examines the ways in which the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) can be integrated into graduate education in the humanities to support future faculty preparation in teaching. Drawing on data from a multi-year project at a research-1 institution in the United States, and theories from postmodern geography and postcolonial…
Descriptors: Humanities, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
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Borrego, Maura; Newswander, Lynita K. – Review of Higher Education, 2010
Combining the interdisciplinary studies (primarily humanities) literature with the content analysis of 129 successful National Science Foundation proposals written predominantly by science and engineering faculty members, the authors identify five categories of learning outcomes for interdisciplinary graduate education: disciplinary grounding,…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Outcomes of Education, Teamwork
Moore, Alfred – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
This paper reports on a pilot interdisciplinary graduate Summer School in Theory and Philosophy for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, which aimed to combine research with graduate teaching and learning. The paper will develop reflections on the ways in which interdisciplinary residential learning spaces can promote successful skills…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development, Student Development
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr. – Educational Researcher, 2006
In response to changing federal priorities, much discussion has taken place recently about the need for graduate education programs to firmly embrace interdisciplinary research, or "interdisciplinary integration across related fields" (National Research Council, 2004, p. 6). The related fields usually are understood to be certain social and…
Descriptors: Humanities, Graduate Study, Behavioral Sciences, Interdisciplinary Approach
Stone, James H. – Impr Coll Univ Teaching, 1970
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Humanities, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach
Pellegrino, Edmund D. – 1981
A human society that aspires to more than survival must search continuously for new knowledge; we are all the beneficiaries of the scholar's insatiable desire to know. Graduate study must be nurtured, and cannot ever be the sole preoccupation of academe. Today the crucial balance of things and humans is threatened by the erosion of support for and…
Descriptors: College Role, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Humanistic Education
Neudling, Chester L.; Blessing, James H. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
This study was undertaken as a report on a relatively new kind of graduate program. It is intended to present the characteristics of existing general education programs in the humanities for comparison and appraisal. Since this study deals with a relatively new and still experimental field, it should be regarded as a status report, or perhaps even…
Descriptors: General Education, Graduate Study, Humanities, Program Descriptions
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Adams, Elsie B.; Pugh, Darrell L. – College Teaching, 1994
A San Diego State University (California) graduate course in the School of Public Administration integrates literature study with professional education. Its objectives are to give students vicarious experience with the frustration and alienation felt by potential clients and the dilemmas faced by conscientious administrators and to rekindle…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Descriptions, General Education, Graduate Study
Frazier, Robert Carter – 1973
The purpose of this case study was to examine the origin and development of the Center for the Humanities at Arizona State University in Tempe. An attempt was made to explicate why and how the interdisciplinary humanities program began at Arizona State University, to describe the expansion of and changes in the program as it evolved into the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
Sheridan, Harriet W.; Hill, Barbara Ann – 1981
A report of the 1981 Wingspread Conference, which sought remedies for the current low state of the humanities in American higher education, is presented. Participants included 60 college presidents, deans, faculty members, government officials, and business and foundation officials. Recommendations are as follows: (1) a collaborative effort should…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Faculty, College Programs, College School Cooperation
O'Callaghan, Phyllis, Ed. – 1988
Thirteen essays describe the interdisciplinary approach of the graduate liberal studies program from the point of view of each of the disciplines involved: philosophy, history, art, literature, social science, psychology, science, and theology. The following are included: "Graduate Liberal Studies Programs: Origin and Aims" (Phyllis O'Callaghan);…
Descriptors: Art Education, College Programs, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
An article on graduate liberal studies (GLS) and descriptions of GLS programs are presented. In "The Concept of Graduate Liberal Studies," Allie M. Frazier considers GLS curricular offerings, characteristics of students pursuing these studies, and the future of GLS. GLS degree programs allow adults to pursue a liberal education, which is…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Books, Cultural Education, Degree Requirements
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