{"id":18973,"date":"2020-02-01T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=18973"},"modified":"2020-02-01T13:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:47:44","slug":"the-changing-face-of-higher-education-is-there-an-international-crisis-in-the-humanities-edited-by-dennis-a-ahlburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=18973","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Higher Education: Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities? Edited by Dennis A. Ahlburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last decade, a heated debate has raged in the US and the UK over whether the humanities are in crisis, and, if there is one, what form this crisis takes and what the response should be. Questioning how there can be such disagreement over a fundamental point, The Changing Face of Higher Education<\/em> explores this debate, asking whether the humanities are in crisis after all by objectively evaluating the evidence at hand, and opening the debate up to a global scale by applying the questions to twelve countries from different continents.<\/p>\n

Each carefully chosen contributor considers the debate from the perspective of a different country. The chapters present data on funding, student enrolment in the humanities, whether the share of total enrolment in this area is falling, and answer the following questions:<\/p>\n