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

在澳大利亚，人文‘生态’从未被全面绘制过。就当前的优势和劣势以及未来可能的趋势而言，学术界和学生群体都相对缺乏了解。清楚地了解澳大利亚的人文研究活动和潜力，对于制定一种知情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。人文学科教与学的详细知识也同样重要。该社区依赖人文部门培养出各种领域的优秀毕业生：遗产管理；对外国语言和文化的理解；澳大利亚历史、文学和艺术；以及媒体和传播。目前的统计数据对澳大利亚人文学科的配置提供了一种零散和不一致的看法：我们无法非常准确地说出人文学科在最近过去是如何排列的；而且很难对该部门在不久的将来的状况和能力做出有信心的预测。该项目将分析现有数据并提供补充数据，以完成这一图景，并对包括学生和学者在内的整个高等教育人文科学群体进行详细的概括性审查。其结果将是对澳大利亚人文能力的当前和未来发挥状况的全面了解，这将为政府、行业和社区提供信息，以应对当前和新兴的国家优先领域的劳动力需求和知识需求。

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.