The Transformation of Humanities Education

Zusammenfassung

This first comprehensive study of Norwegian humanities education employs systems theory to analyze its transformation from a form of teacher training to its modern status as research-oriented generalist education.Using historical documents and statistical analyses, Vidar Grøtta shows that the expansion of the post-war research system in Norway led to an increase in admissions to humanities education in the 1960s and an ensuing research drift in humanities curricula. Interacting with certain political dynamics and the knowledge economy that has emerged since the 1970s, this research drift resulted in a shift in humanists' career patterns and a transformation of the societal functions of the humanities.The most recent developments in Norwegian humanities education, from 2000 to 2018, are outlined and discussed in the afterword to this volume.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage

1/2019

Copyrightjahr

2019

ISBN-Print

978-3-8376-4307-7

ISBN-Online

978-3-8394-4307-1

Verlag

transcript, Bielefeld

Reihe

Global Studies & Theory of Society

Band

3

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

572

Produkttyp

Monographie