„ჰუმანიტარულ მეცნიერებათა კრიზისი” და თანამედროვე გამოწვევები
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2024-02-14
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა
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Humanities are the foundation of all sciences. Although the term has
been established since the Middle Ages, its meaning was changing over
time. In the era of postmodernism, humanitarian sciences include those
academic disciplines that are focused on the process of giving the meanings
to the world and interpreting it through the research of individual
historical or social phenomena. Humanitarian fields are the foundation
of value systems. However, in the modern world, which is focused on
economic profit, humanities seem to have lost their importance. The loss
of interest to humanities is due to the fact that funding opportunities are
decreasing; the number of young people in the academic space is automatically
declining. Governments also consider it more profitable to direct
funds to those disciplines that develop technologies or provide immediate
material results. Scholars started to discuss the “crisis of
humanities”. The analysis of the issue is multifaceted. Researches (both
qualitative and quantitative) have already been conducted or are underway
in various countries.
At the same time, efforts were made to make humanities interesting
again. On this way, content and technological renewal of the programs is
ongoing. New directions are emerging (digital humanities, public humanities...).
The academic debate is underway. Some scholars consider the
thesis about the crisis to be exaggerated; they are directing their focus
on the methodology of statistical data collection and analysis. Others
consider the crisis as a real process and try to develop new strategies
with the involvement of the wider society and decision-makers, and above
all to justify the great importance of humanities in the way of further
development of humanity. Humanities contribute to the development of critical thinking, the
conscious use of comparative and relativistic approaches, and the accumulation
of fundamental knowledge. These are the components without
which we will get such a consumer society, the members of which can
become “technically good performers” just as the element of the mechanism,
which raises the danger of unconditional establishing of an authoritarian
hierarchy. It is necessary to involve our society in these debates,
because a large number of the current social and political problems are
created precisely because of the lack of analysis of broad contexts and
discourses, simply not seeing and understanding them. In this way, the
education system, proper teaching methodology and the knowledge of
current debates will be given crucial importance.
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თბილისის უნივერსიტეტის დაარსებისადმი მიძღვნილი სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია. თსუ 106, თეზისები, 2024, გვ.: 108-111 / Scientific conference dedicated to the foundation of Tbilisi University. TSU 106, Abstracts, 2024, pp.: 108-111