Beyond Disciplinarity: Humanities and Supercomplexity

Autor/in	Parker, Jan
Titel	Beyond Disciplinarity: Humanities and Supercomplexity
Quelle	In: London Review of Education, 6 (2008) 3, S.255-266 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-8460
Schlagwörter	Interdisciplinary Approach; Humanities; Humanities Instruction; Intellectual Disciplines; Curriculum Development; College Curriculum; College Faculty; Instructional Innovation; Resistance to Change; Classical Literature; Greek Civilization; History Instruction; Educational Principles; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Geisteswissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Fakultät; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Classical philology; Literature; Altphilologie; literatur; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Bildungsprinzip; Ausland; Großbritannien
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. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10