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7 juillet 2013

The Humanities: What Went Right?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/the-conversation-newheader.pngBy Mark Bauerlein. There’s no denying it. The humanities have been through a crisis, a period in which, according to the Humanities Resource Center Online of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, degrees went from 17.7 percent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded to 6.7 percent. The absolute number of degrees awarded in the humanities declined, from 99,280 to 65,423—during a period when total undergraduate enrollments at American colleges, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, increased by over 80 percent. The vice chancellor of a major public-university system boldly proclaimed, in the pages of The New York Times, that “the liberal-arts era is over.” Read more...
7 juillet 2013

The Humanities, Declining? Not According to the Numbers

http://chronicle.com/img/subscribe-footer.pngBy Michael Bérubé. In recent years, enrollments in the humanities have plummeted. The evidence is everywhere: Last month, in The New York Times, Verlyn Klinkenborg noted "the recent shift away from the humanities" in an essay titled "The Decline and Fall of the English Major." In his 2009 American Scholar essay, "The Decline of the English Department," William M. Chace noted that English accounted for 7.6 percent of all bachelor's degrees in 1970-71, but only 3.9 percent in 2003-4. "If nothing is done to put an end to the process of disintegration, the numbers will continue in a steady downward spiral," he warned. A few weeks ago in these pages, Mark Bauerlein cited similar numbers, concluding, "English has gone from a major unit in the university to a minor one." In November 2010, the MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall remarked with alarm that "students wanting to take up majors like art history and literature are now making the jump to more-specialized fields like business and economics, and it's getting worse." A chart appeared on-screen. "Just look at this," she said. "In 2007 just 8 percent of bachelor's degrees were given to disciplines in the humanities." In 1966 that figure had been 17.4 percent. Read more...
4 juillet 2013

The Public Value of the Social Sciences

http://www.srhe.ac.uk/media/images/logo.jpg“The Public Value of the Social Sciences”, Academy of Social Sciences Annual Lecture 2013. London, Thursday 4th July 2013 at 2.30pm.
What is the purpose of social science?
How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century?
The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly–engaged teaching and research into the protective bunker of disciplinarity. In articulating a vision for the public role of social science in the twenty-first century, John Brewer argues that these threats also constitute an opportunity for a new public social science to emerge, confident in its public value and fully engaged with the future of humanity in its teaching, research and civic responsibilities, while also remaining committed to science. Attendance is free and open to any interested person, but spaces are limited. Early booking is highly recommended - visit http://academylecture2013.eventbrite.co.uk/. Read more...
4 juillet 2013

Vicious fallacy or 21st century skill?

http://i1.wp.com/oecdinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Art-for-Arts-Sake.jpg?resize=179%2C240By Patrick Love. Vicious fallacy or 21st century skill? Listen to the Insights podcast on arts education and find out.
A new OECD study, Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education,looks at whether teaching the arts has any benefits other than helping children to become better at drawing, singing, dancing, acting or whatever activity is taught.
The title comes from an article by Théophile Gautier who used the expression “l’art pour l’art” in the Revue des Deux Mondes in 1847.
Baudelaire agreed, and criticised the “heresy of teaching”:  “Une foule de gens se figurent que le but de la poésie est un enseignement quelconque… La poésie (…) n’a pas d’autre but qu’elle-même.” (A crowd of people imagine that the purpose of poetry should be some kind of teaching… Poetry’s only purpose… is itself). Read more...
30 juin 2013

Why art students should go to gallery openings

The Guardian homeBy . Attending private views is a must for building up a network of contacts that will support your artistic career. To get anywhere in the arts you need a following: a crowd of people who support you and your work. These are the people who will eventually, if you are lucky, set you on a path to making a living from your creative talents.Visual artists build up a following by throwing free drinks parties on the opening night of each exhibition they have. These previews – or private views, as they are known in the trade – have a dual benefit of being both highly sociable and incredibly important networking events. Read more...
25 juin 2013

La TGIR Huma-Num

http://www.huma-num.fr/sites/default/files/ressourcesdoc/couleur-cmjn-petit.jpgHuma-Num est une très grande infrastructure (TGIR) visant à faciliter le tournant numérique de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. Pour remplir cette mission, la TGIR Huma-Num est bâti sur une organisation originale consistant à mettre en œuvre un dispositif humain (concertation collective) et technologique (services numériques pérennes) à l’échelle nationale et européenne en s’appuyant sur un important réseau de partenaires et d’opérateurs.
La TGIR Huma-Num favorise ainsi, par l’intermédiaire de consortiums regroupant des acteurs des communautés scientifiques, la coordination de la production raisonnée et collective de corpus de sources (recommandations scientifiques, bonnes pratiques technologiques). Elle développe également un dispositif technologique unique permettant le traitement, la conservation, l'accès et l'interopérabilité des données de la recherche. Ce dispositif est composé d'une grille de services dédiés, d'une plateforme d'accès unifié (ISIDORE) et d'une procédure d'archivage à long terme. La TGIR Huma-Num propose en outre des guides de bonnes pratiques technologiques généralistes à destination des chercheurs. Elle peut mener ponctuellement des actions d'expertise et de formation. Elle porte la participation de la France dans le projet DARIAH en coordonnant les contributions nationales.
Les services de la TGIR

Consortiums
Les consortiums réunissent plusieurs unités et équipes autour de thématiques et d'objets communs pour lesquels ils définissent des procédures et standards numériques partagés. Ils formulent un programme de numérisation ou de documentation pluriannuel pour lequel ils s’engagent à apporter une partie des moyens nécessaires (en particulier en personnel), et pour lequel ils demandent, en outre, un soutien de la part de la TGIR. Afin d’obtenir ce soutien, les consortiums doivent être labellisés. Lire la suite.
ISIDORE

ISIDORE (« Intégration de services, interconnexion de données de la recherche et de l’enseignement ») est un service qui collecte, enrichit et offre un accès unifié aux documents et données numériques des sciences humaines et sociales. ISIDORE « moissonne » - c'est le terme consacré - les notices, les métadonnées et le texte intégral issus des publications électroniques, des corpus, des bases de données et des actualités scientifiques, accessibles sur le web et proposés dans des standards ouverts d'interopérabilité. ISIDORE moissonne principalement des données francophones, mais intègre aussi des données en langues étrangères produites en France ou dans le monde francophones. Enfin ISIDORE valorise les données en libre accès (open access). Lire la suite.
Grille de services

Huma-Num pilote une grille de services dédiés aux projets ou réalisations des sciences humaines et sociales (SHS). L'accueil sur la grille suppose la mise en place d'une coopération avec l'équipe de l'infrastructure numérique de la TGIR.
A qui s'adresse la grille de services?

La grille de services de la TGIR Huma-Num rassemble et développe des services spécialisés de qualité dédiés au traitement, à la valorisation et à la conservation des données de la recherche en SHS. Lire la suite.
Formations

La TGIR soutient ou organise différentes actions de formation ou de structuration des communautés regroupées autour du terme « digital humanities ». Lire la suite.
http://www.huma-num.fr/sites/default/files/ressourcesdoc/couleur-cmjn-petit.jpg Tá Huma-Num bonneagar mór (TGIR) chun éascú a casadh taighde digiteach sna daonnachtaí agus sna heolaíochtaí sóisialta. Chun an misean seo, tá TGIR Huma-Num tógtha ar eagraíocht ar leith ina bhfuil gléas daonna (comhairliúchán comhchoiteanna) agus teicneolaíochta (seirbhísí digiteacha ilbhliantúil) i bhfeidhm ar an leibhéal náisiúnta agus Eorpach, bunaithe ar líonra mór comhpháirtithe agus oibreoirí. Níos mó...
23 juin 2013

Humanities commission co-chaired by Brodhead releases report

http://www.heraldsun.com/!/assets/masthead_heraldsun/0U.S. lawmakers and educators should strengthen their focus on humanities and social sciences for the advancement of U.S. elementary, secondary and higher education, global competitiveness and employable skills, the national Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences said Wednesday. The commission, co-chaired by Duke University President Richard Brodhead, presented their report to a group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hil. The group includeed U.S. Rep. David Price of Chapel Hill, who represents North Carolina’s 4th District, according to the commission.
The commission was created in 2010 as part of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an independent policy research center that studies emerging problems, encourages public engagement and mentors a new generation of scholars, according to its website. The humanities commission’s 53 members include former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court David Souter, as well as musician Yo-Yo Ma and film director George Lucas. Read more...
23 juin 2013

Humanities and Social Sciences Are Central to National Goals, Report Argues

http://chronicle.com/img/subscribe_11_2011.jpgBy Dan Berrett. A new report commissioned by a bipartisan quartet of lawmakers seeks to bolster the sagging fortunes of the humanities and social sciences, arguing that those disciplines are central to the nation's civic, cultural, economic, and diplomatic future. The report, "The Heart of the Matter," was produced by the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, a blue-ribbon panel that was formed by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at the lawmakers' request. The commission's task was to identify what federal and state governments, universities, teachers, foundations, and individual donors can do to "maintain national excellence in humanities and social-scientific scholarship and education" to help achieve national goals.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Sen. Mark R. Warner, Democrat of Virginia, requested the report with Rep. Thomas E. Petri, Republican of Wisconsin, and Rep. David E. Price, Democrat of North Carolina. The commission's 54 members include scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as scientists, engineers, business executives, philanthropists, and artists. The commission's recommendations contain little in the way of grand plans requiring major public support; the report often calls for consortia of government, foundations, and businesses to foot the bill for such programs as graduate fellowships in the humanities and social sciences, the teaching of languages and culture, and increasing study-abroad opportunities. Recommendations include providing more support for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, and passing a "National Competitiveness Act" to support international affairs and transnational studies. Read more...
22 juin 2013

Report: Humanities, social science education needed for innovation along with STEM

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/3897034020806993798By Lynh Bui. A workforce lacking robust a humanities and social science education could be just as detrimental to the country’s future economic competitiveness as one deficient in science and technological expertise, according to an American Academy of Arts and Sciences report released Wednesday.
“The Heart of the Matter” aims to highlight the importance of humanities and social sciences to the country’s economic future and urges Americans to value a well-rounded education. The findings are the social science community’s answer to a 2007 report that pushed the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education into the national spotlight. Read more...
16 juin 2013

Bad Timing for Report on Humanities and Social Sciences

HomeNext week, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is scheduled to release a report -- requested by members of Congress -- on the state of the humanities and social sciences. But as The New York Times noted, the timing is anything but favorable. In the last week, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has seen numerous articles in The Boston Globe and elsewhere noting that the academy had applied for grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities stating that Leslie Berlowitz, the head of the academy, has a doctorate. Read more...
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