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- Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times
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- 2015
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Digital Humanities
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After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform.
Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.
Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.
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- Title Page
- pp. i-iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Dedication, Acknowledgments
- pp. v-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- Part I: The Times Are Good Enough
- Realities on the Ground
- pp. 7-15
- What Is to Be Done?
- pp. 16-32
- Part II: The Everyday Life of the Humanities Now
- The Distributed University
- pp. 35-42
- Knowledge Environments
- pp. 43-54
- Going Open
- pp. 67-84
- The Possibly Posthuman Humanities Scholar
- pp. 103-107
- Manifesto for a Sustainable Humanities
- pp. 108-110
- Part III: Toward a 21st-Century Doctoral Education
- A Time of Troubles, a Time of Opportunity
- pp. 113-128
- Breathing Life into the Dissertation
- pp. 129-143
- Responding to Counterarguments
- pp. 144-154
- A 21st-Century Doctoral Education
- pp. 155-164
- The Upside of Change
- pp. 165-172
- Bibliography
- pp. 201-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472900060
Related ISBN(s)
9780472053049, 9780472073047, 9780472121717
MARC Record
OCLC
933516689
Pages
238
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND