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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

There are also growing calls for interdisciplinary and creative approaches prioritising equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to solve wicked global challenges ( AHRC 2022 , WEF 2016 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. I have been cultivating ‘Tentacular Pedagogy’ (TP) for 24 years as a HE teacher and consultant. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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What Museums Can Teach Us About the Emotional Dimensions of Learning

Inside Higher Ed

Today, there are 10 times as many historical museums, historical sites, battlefields, historic homes and living history museums in the United States as there are art museums. Their conclusions were indeed highly critical: Financial and institutional considerations too often resulted in a bland, insipid and wishy-washy portraits of the past.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.

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Educational gag orders are a student rights issue (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2016, the first Virginia “ Beloved Bill” passed; it was later vetoed by then governor Terry McAuliffe. The present is not good … Politically it’s horrible … All the hawks are screaming … —Toni Morrison, from a 2015 interview. We, the people, need to get serious about this. To be urgent, in fact.