Classics and higher education: Challenge and response

Walcot, P.

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“…Other research from the same period noted a consistent decline in student numbers, linked to significant changes in education, including the abolition of the need for the Latin O Level for entry to Oxford and Cambridge and the replacement of many grammar schools with comprehensives (Forrest 2003: 42–66; Department of Education and Science, 1977: 2–3). By 1980, Peter Walcot, also a classicist, thought that in British universities degrees in English and history remained “buoyant”, although institutions were weaker in the provision of languages (Walcot, 1980: 10). By 1989, a volume of scholarly papers by American classicists focused on their particular discipline, once the cornerstone of a liberal arts education, as being in “crisis” (Culham and Edmunds, 1989).…”

Section: From the Beginning: Classics And Ancient History In The Anti...mentioning

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O tempora: The current presence of classics and ancient history in Australian and New Zealand public universities

Charles

Harmes

2022

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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The study of classics has been part of Australian and New Zealand higher education from the beginnings of tertiary education in these countries, followed shortly after by the study of ancient history. This article offers an analysis of current units of study in each Australian and New Zealand public university that continues to teach classics and ancient history. Set in the context of the origins of this field in both countries and contemporary debates on the value of studying not only the humanities in general but also classics and ancient history in particular, this article offers detailed analysis of what is taught and how universities conceptualize the merit and usefulness of this field of study. Analysis reveals some decline in more traditional areas, but also identifies the evolutionary trajectories that classics and ancient history have followed, including departures from the ‘sober’ political history to offerings that have been enabled by methodologies prevalent in social and gender history.

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Section: From the Beginning: Classics And Ancient History In The Anti...mentioning

confidence: 99%