Overview
- Explores future strategies for value articulation in the humanities
- Steps away from the rhetoric of crisis and argues for a critical analysis of the value of the humanities within a broader history
- Engages with higher education policy and provides a constructive report of contemporary higher education
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics (PSLCE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market.
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About the author
Zoe Hope Bulaitis is a literary scholar with expertise in cultural and higher education policy. She is a researcher in the Creative Industries: Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Exeter where she previously taught literature and critical theory within the English Department.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Value and the Humanities
Book Subtitle: The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance
Authors: Zoe Hope Bulaitis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37892-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37891-2Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37894-3Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37892-9Published: 29 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Higher Education, Cultural Economics