Parker, Jan
(2008).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1080/14748460802489389 |
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Abstract
The 'New Humanities' has called for new ways of engaging with Humanities texts; the European Science Foundation is just one major research funder to demand that the Humanities contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations. Meanwhile, traditionally trained disciplinary academics have resisted bringing traditional texts into interdisciplinary courses as 'dumbing down the curriculum'. This article analyses briefly the different epistemological, narratological and disciplinary genres in one text: Herodotus' Histories or Enquiries. It concludes that Humanities study must include such texts, not only as disciplinary but also as supra-disciplinary exemplary ways of knowing. It sketches a New Humanities curriculum based on such a text that could fit the twenty-first century student to live in a super-complex, multi-paradigmatic and radically interdisciplinary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2008 Institute of Education, University of London |
| ISSN: | 1474-8460 |
| Keywords: | humanities; study and teaching; universities and colleges; curricula; interdisciplinary approach in education; European Science Foundation; Herodotus; complex narrative; disciplinarity; genre; interdisciplinarity; new humanities; supercomplexity |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 16629 |
| Depositing User: | Wendy Hunt |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2009 15:23 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2012 16:59 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/16629 |
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