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The humanities, the natural and social sciences all represent advanced and systematic knowledge production-and they all receive public funding for doing so. However, although the field of public understanding of science has been well established for decades, similar research attention has not been directed at the humanities. The purpose of this study is to argue the case for further research of public understanding of the humanities and to take a first step in that direction by presenting a study of the framing of the humanities in Danish print news media. Different framings of the humanities are analyzed. Despite the differences in the issue-specific frames, the generic framing of the humanities shared by most articles is as follows: 75% explicitly frame the humanities as deficit, while the remaining 25% are more neutral. Consequently, if newspapers constitute the only source of information concerning the humanities, newsreaders may not be much wiser in understanding what the humanities might be-but they will know that whatever the humanities is, it is broken and useless.

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De fleste universitetsstuderende vil i større eller mindre grad opleve at skulle arbejde problemorienteret eller med andre former for selvstændig konstruktion af vidensproblemer, omikke andet så når de skal skrive speciale. På trods af at den problemorienterede tilgang kan forstås og udspilles på mange forskellige måder, findes der ikke megen viden om, hvad deregentlig tæller som et sådant problemorienteret problem – og vi ved endnu mindre om, hvordan de studerende forstår, hvad et problemorienteret problem er eller kan være. I denne artikel vil jeg derfor præsentere en undersøgelse af, hvordan universitetsstuderende giver liv til dette abstrakte problem i praksis, og hvordan disse forståelser udvikler sig. Anslag til universitetspædagogiske indsatsområder foreslås til slut.

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