Dumbing Down or Reaching Out? Facebook in Kurdistan and Nasser Razazi

The UK and Ireland have long held an international reputation for producing good quality surgical research. However, the climate in which clinical research is undertaken has changed considerably over the last few years. Healthcare has become heavily target driven and the pressures of service provision leave less time and fewer resources available to devote to research. Changes in postgraduate training mean that less emphasis is placed on the importance of research and current working patterns are less conducive to undertaking research.

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'You've been NERFed!' Dumbing down the academy: National Educational Research Forum: 'a national strategy ? consultation paper': a brief and bilious response

Journal of Education Policy ◽

10.1080/02680930110041393 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 265-268 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Stephen J. Ball

Keyword(s):

Educational Research ◽

National Strategy ◽

Consultation Paper ◽

Dumbing Down

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Beyond disciplinarity: humanities and supercomplexity

London Review of Education ◽

10.1080/14748460802489389 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jan R. Parker

Keyword(s):

Ways Of Knowing ◽

First Century ◽

Major Research ◽

European Science Foundation ◽

European Science ◽

Interdisciplinary Collaborations ◽

Interdisciplinary Courses ◽

Humanities Curriculum ◽

Research Funder ◽

Dumbing Down

The 'New Humanities' has called for new ways of engaging with Humanities texts; the European Science Foundation is just one major research funder to demand that the Humanities contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations. Meanwhile, traditionally trained disciplinary academics have resisted bringing traditional texts into interdisciplinary courses as 'dumbing down the curriculum'. This article analyses briefly the different epistemological, narratological and disciplinary genres in one text: Herodotus' Histories or Enquiries . It concludes that Humanities study must include such texts, not only as disciplinary but also as supra-disciplinary exemplary ways of knowing. It sketches a New Humanities curriculum based on such a text that could fit the twenty-first century student to live in a super-complex, multi-paradigmatic and radically interdisciplinary world.

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