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‘ Making a World that is Worth Living In’

Humanities teaching and the formation of practical reasoning

Melanie Walker

University of Nottingham, UK, melanie.walker{at}nottingham.ac.uk

This article considers humanities teaching as a vital space where students might develop their capability as ‘practical reasoners’. The importance of this for self-development, but also for society and democratic life, is considered, while the economic purposes which currently dominate higher education are critiqued. An example is taken from the teaching of history to show how lecturers teach and students learn secular intellectual practices under pedagogical arrangements of communicative reasoning and ontological becoming.

Key Words: capabilities • democratic life • history education • practical reasoning • teaching and learning

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 8, No. 3, 231-246 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1474022209339960
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