Humanities Education As Place for Cultural-Historical Memory

for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Historical and cultural background of education in China

In order to know the learning beliefs and behaviours of Chinese students, it is perhaps useful to look from a longer perspective; namely, from the historical development of education in China from the imperial days, to early republican years because men are following the customs of the cultural environment rather than creating the new rules out of nothing. To a certain extent, the change of Chi...

Need humanities be so useless? Justifying the place and role of humanities as a critical resource for performance and practice.

Justifying the existence, position, and relevance of academic humanities scholarship may be difficult in the face of chronic practical needs in health care. Such scholarship may seem parasitic on human activity and performance that directly contributes to human wellbeing and health care. Here, a possible and partial justification for the importance of scholarship in the humanities as a critical...

Memory and Nostalgia as Music-Historical Categories

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Education and debate: Developing the place of medical humanities in medical education from school to the consulting room.

In this issue’s Education and debate section Evans and Greaves describe two educational developments in medical humanities. These initiatives appear to raise two important issues in the context of developing the humanities in medical education. Evans and Greaves describe their master’s programme as being “philosophy looking at humanities disciplines looking at medicine”. This acknowledgement of...