The changing face of higher education : is there an international crisis in the humanities? / edited by Dennis A. Ahlburg.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ahlburg, Dennis A., editor.

Series:

• International studies in higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--Case studies.
• Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--Case studies.
• Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Case studies.
• Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
• Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).
• Social sciences--Study and teaching (Higher).
• Social sciences.
• Humanities.

Genre:

• Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Contents:

• An Australian humanities crisis?
• Is there a crisis in the humanities in Brazil? : ambivalences and fragilities of a late higher education system
• The humanities as the default option in higher education : the case of Egypt
• The crisis of the humanities and social sciences in France today
• To be or not to be? : crisis and the humanities in Germany
• Much ado about very little : the [2015] Japanese government order that Japanese National University abolish their humanities and social science programs
• The humanities in Mexico : no crisis, but no shining future either
• Palestinian and Israeli universities : is there a crisis of the humanities?
• Hopeless entanglement : the short history of the academic humanities in South Africa
• Is there a crisis in the humanities in the UK?
• The "crisis of the humanities" : fact or fiction?

Notes:

• Paperback due to be published: 30 January 2020.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781138244832
• 113824483X

OCLC:

975369114