Teaching the Humanities in a Fractious World
A Reply to Sceptics
$108.58
- Hardcover
126 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2025
Summary
This book confronts an ever more popular suspicion – that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is an ‘elitist’ indoctrination into ‘leftist’ or ‘liberal’ views. Having taught them for nearly 40 years, Gavin Kitching shows that, on the contrary, studying these subjects leads one to question all political and social views (left-wing, right-wing, ‘elite’, ‘popular’, religious, secular) and to be sceptical of all the beliefs about human identity (whether racial, gender, na…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032984018 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032984015 |
| Author: | Gavin Kitching |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 126 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
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About The Author
Gavin Kitching
Gavin Kitching is an internationally distinguished scholar and researcher in the fields of Third World development, agrarian and rural development, and the philosophy and methodology of social science. He is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Social Sciences Academy.
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