Recouping the Value of the Humanities

Autor/in	Dass, Nirmal
Titel	Recouping the Value of the Humanities
Quelle	In: College Quarterly, 11 (2008) 4, (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1195-4353
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Democracy; Human Dignity; Democratic Values; Humanities; Corporations; Freedom; Civil Rights; Job Skills; Outcomes of Education; Social Values; Human Capital; Role of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Menschenwürde; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Unternehmen; Freiheit; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Produktive Fertigkeit; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Sozialer Wert; Humankapital; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	The corporate approach to education is groundless (because a large portion of education in the past, and even still, has always been firmly grounded in the Humanities). So, why this continuous assault on the Humanities? Because educational institutions have bought into the myth that education and the corporate world are hand-in-glove. But by assailing and dismantling the Humanities, have educators not also begun the process of removing the very foundation of liberal democracy--it has not been the corporate world that provided them with ideas which they supposedly cherish--ideas, such as, freedom, personal liberty, human dignity, democracy, and equality. In this article, the author stresses the role and function of Humanities and tries to recoup its value. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10