The Humanities in Australia Today: an appraisal of current activity and likely trends in teaching, learning and research across the humanities in Australia

今日澳大利亚人文学科：对澳大利亚人文学科教学、学习和研究的当前活动和可能趋势的评估

• 批准号: LS0800001
• 负责人: Dr John Byron
• 金额: $ 7.35万
• 依托单位: Australian Academy of the Humanities
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Learned Academies Special Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-06-30 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LS0800001
• 关键词: Humanities; Australia; Today; appraisal; current

The humanities ‘ecology’ has never been mapped comprehensively in Australia. Both the academic workforce and the student cohort are relatively poorly understood in terms of current strengths and weaknesses and likely future trends. A clear understanding of humanities research activity and potential in Australia is crucial to developing an informed approach to managing our national knowledge requirements in a wide range of disciplines, including ethics, history, Asian and European studies, society and culture, religious studies, archaeology and linguistics. Detailed knowledge of humanities teaching and learning is just as important. The community relies upon the humanities sector to produce graduates competent in fields as diverse as: heritage management; understanding of foreign languages and culture; Australian history, literature and arts; and media and communications. Current statistical collections provide a patchy and inconsistent view of the disposition of the humanities in Australia: we are unable to say with much precision how the humanities was arrayed in the recent past; and it is very difficult to make a confident prediction of the sector’s profile and capabilities in the near future. This project will analyse existing data and produce supplemental data to complete the picture, and conduct a detailed synoptic examination of the total humanities community in higher education, including students and academics. The result will be a comprehensive picture of the current and future state of play of Australia’s humanities capability, which will inform Government, industry and community responses to current and emerging national priority areas of workforce need and knowledge requirements.

人文“生态”在澳大利亚从未被全面绘制过。学术界和学生群体对当前的优势和劣势以及未来可能的趋势都知之甚少。清楚地了解澳大利亚的人文研究活动和潜力，对于制定明智的方法来管理我们在广泛学科中的国家知识需求至关重要，这些学科包括伦理学，历史，亚洲和欧洲研究，社会和文化，宗教研究，考古学和语言学。人文学科教学的详细知识也同样重要。社会依赖于人文部门生产毕业生在不同领域的能力：遗产管理;外语和文化的理解;澳大利亚历史，文学和艺术;和媒体和通信。目前的统计数据收集提供了一个不完整的和不一致的看法，在澳大利亚的人文学科的处置：我们无法准确地说，人文学科是如何排列在最近的过去，这是非常困难的部门的形象和能力在不久的将来作出一个有信心的预测。该项目将分析现有数据，并提供补充数据，以完成整个画面，并对高等教育中的整个人文社会，包括学生和学者进行详细的概括性检查。其结果将是澳大利亚人文学科能力的当前和未来状况的全面图景，这将为政府、行业和社区对当前和新出现的劳动力需求和知识要求的国家优先领域的反应提供信息。