Digital humanities pedagogy : practices, principles and politics / edited by Brett D. Hirsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirsch, Brett D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching.

Humanities.

Educational technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 426 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual practice of teaching. The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions. Digital Humanities pedagogy broadens the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, ensuring its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability.

Contents:

Introduction

Digital Humanities and the Place of Pedagogy

I. Practices

1. The PhD in Digital Humanities

2. Hands-On Teaching Digital Humanities

3. Teaching Digital Skills in an Archives and Public History Curriculum

4. Digital Humanities and the First-Year Writing Course

5. Teaching Digital Humanities through Digital Cultural Mapping

6. Looking for Whitman: A Multi-Campus Experiment in Digital Pedagogy

7. Acculturation and the Digital Humanities Community

II. Principles

8. Teaching Skills or Teaching Methodology?

9. Programming with Humanists

10. Teaching Computer-Assisted Text Analysis

11. Pedagogical Principles of Digital Historiography

12. Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis

III. Politics

13. On the Digital Future of the Humanities

14. Opening up Digital Humanities Education

15. Multiliteracies in the Undergraduate Digital Humanities Curriculum

16. Wikipedia, Collaboration, and the Politics of Free Knowledge

Select Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 07, 2020).

ISBN:

9781909254282

1909254282

9782821854031

282185403X

9781909254275

1909254274

OCLC:

923317960

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access