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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Tracing How Arts and Humanities Research Translates, Circulates and Consolidates in Society.. How Have Scholars Been Reacting to Diverse Impact and Public Value Agendas?
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Benneworth, Paul – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
Arts and humanities research appears to have a problem when it comes to making an argument that it matters to society. Despite widespread efforts within and beyond the field to document how arts and humanities research creates social value, these arguments have had little traction within public policy debates. The paper argues that other…
Descriptors: Art, Humanities, Research, Value Judgment
Are Sciences Essential and Humanities Elective? Disentangling Competing Claims for Humanities' Research Public Value
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Olmos-Peñuela, Julia; Benneworth, Paul; Castro-Martínez, Elena – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
Recent policy discourse suggests that arts and humanities research is seen as being less useful to society than other disciplines, notably in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The paper explores how this assumption's construction has been built and whether it is based upon an unfair prejudice: we argue for a prima facie case…
Descriptors: Art, Humanities, Research, Value Judgment