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Tiêu đề
The humanities in the vise of the K-20 corporate education reform
Tác giả
Horton P.
Năm xuất bản
2017
Source title
The Humanities: Past, Present and Future
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Those who defend liberal arts colleges and arts and humanities departments at elite colleges and public universities frame most of the current discussion about attacks on the humanities. This paper argues that this discourse is far too narrowly constructed. Corporate and political interests have decided to stop investing in K-20 public education and are pushing data driven performance measures. Because humanities disciplines are difficult to quantify and because these corporate and political interests above all seek to mold all levels of education to their requirements for job and professional training, disciplines that do not produce students with specific job skills are being defunded. Potential investors seek profit by shaping policy discourse to support private charters and colleges that emphasize vocational and professional training. Those concerned with the destruction of the humanities at the college and university levels need to view the crisis of the humanities more holistically to understand that only a K-20 defense of the humanities will have any traction. Investors seek to digitalize learning at all levels and to reduce teaching costs to create profit margins. Leaders of humanities institutions and college and university leaders do not want to alienate foundation support and tend to comply with corporate and foundation mandates. Educators at all levels need to join together to resist the corporate push to standardize education and to insure that the humanities remain at the center of all curricula. K-20 humanities teachers and professors and the public need to work together to push a common humanities agenda that demands higher levels of funding for more humanities teachers, courses, curricula, an end to mandatory standardized tests, greater autonomy for all educators, significantly increased tuition subsidies for public college and university students, and for the preservation of public institutions of learning, K-20. © 2017 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
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Scopus