Humanities need to get ahead of the curve to benefit from Fourth Industrial Revolution: Humanities cannot remain retrospective, but need to get ahead of emerging technologies, if higher education students are to be prepared to face the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As pure sciences and information technology alone are not able to equip students for the Fourth Industrial … [Read more...] about Humanities need to get ahead of the curve to benefit from Fourth Industrial Revolution
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New ways of thinking on health, arts and humanities are emerging in Africa | The Conversation
New ways of thinking on health, arts and humanities are emerging in Africa: A University of Cape Town medical student doing yoga for a project that draws on ideas from medical and health humanities. Third Year Yoga SSM GroupImagine bringing the best of all academic disciplines, artistic creations, activist experience and health care knowledge to bear on understanding and … [Read more...] about New ways of thinking on health, arts and humanities are emerging in Africa | The Conversation
How the humanities can equip students for the fourth industrial revolution | The Conversation
How the humanities can equip students for the fourth industrial revolution: A humanities degree can open people's minds in the fourth industrial revolution. ShutterstockThe term “fourth industrial revolution” is understood in various ways. Some people are excited about it. Others are cautious. Some assume it means that technology and robots will take over every human … [Read more...] about How the humanities can equip students for the fourth industrial revolution | The Conversation
The humanities: looking the past in the eye | The Conversation
The humanities: looking the past in the eye: Students march at South Africa's Stellenbosch University in 2015. They were seeking a legal right to be taught in English rather than Afrikaans. Mike Hutchings/ReutersGiven the disconcerting present, how can we explain our wretched past and understand our increasingly threatening future? This question continued to drift to the … [Read more...] about The humanities: looking the past in the eye | The Conversation
Creating a new humanities menu without the intellectual junk food of neoliberal thought | The Conversation
Creating a new humanities menu without the intellectual junk food of neoliberal thought: Hungry children stretch out their hands at a Somalian refugee camp in 2011. Sadik Gulec/ShutterstockWhat are the humanities? Loosely speaking, they are academic disciplines that study how people process and document the human experience through history, philosophy, literature and cultural … [Read more...] about Creating a new humanities menu without the intellectual junk food of neoliberal thought | The Conversation
