Digital Humanities for Sustainability, Social Development and Knowledge Transfer

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

This module will have a theoretical part and a practical approach, through online meetings/lectures that will explore and analyze cases and platforms for knowledge transfer. The students will be required to identify a research idea with potential for engaging in knowledge transfer. The ideas will be discussed and analyzed in the class. Evaluation will be performed through a final assignment compounding two parts:a) A short essay discussing the theoretical background of the project plan.b) a project plan considering the methods/strategies to be adopted by an institution.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this module students should be able to:

- grasp sustainability and development from the standpoint of ethics and social justice.

- understand the role of the digital humanities in tackling inequality in education.

- get acquainted with knowledge transfer strategies, such as open-source tools, platforms of dissemination and institutional cooperation, among others.

- relate knowledge transfer’s process to knowledge Management within public and private institutions.

- develop an analytic and constructive perspective regarding Digital Humanities potential for constructing bridges between knowledge production and social impact.

- learn some milestones for creating a project plan of R&D.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1) Sustainability and social development. Here we present how the Humanities can contribute to enrich the debates on sustainability and social development. We give an introduction to social ethics and the theories of justice (Rawls, Sen), emphasizing the need to tackle poverty and inequality, and discussing models such as the circular economy and degrowth. Afterwards, we discuss how this problem extends to education and argue that we need interdisciplinary integration and knowledge sharing to tackle it.2) Digital Humanities, knowledge transfer and project plan canvas. We present more fully the advantages of the digital humanities to foster high quality education and to tackle the challenges of inequality of access to research and education (formal and informal), discussing several solutions such as open access platforms and other knowledge transfer strategies, such as dissemination and collaboration platforms.

Head Lecturer(s)

Nelson Henrique Silva Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Evaluation will be performed through a final assignment compounding two parts:a) A short essay discussing the theoretical background of the project plan.b) a project plan considering the methods/strategies to be adopted by an institution: 100.0%

Bibliography

Azeiteiro, U., Davim, J.P., 2020. Higher education and sustainability: opportunities and challenges for achieving sustainable development goals. FL: Taylor & Francis Group.

D’Alisa, Giacomo  et al. (eds.), 2015. Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era. London: Routledge.

Howlett, R.J., Gabrys, B., Musial-Gabrys, K., Roach, J. (Eds.), 2013. Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2012, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Berlin: Springer.

Liu, L., Ramakrishna, S. (eds.) 2021. An Introduction to Circular Economy. Singapore: Springer.

Martins, N. O., 2009. “Ética, Economia e Sustentabilidade” in Prima Facie – Revista de Ética, n.º 3 (2009).

Mooney Smith, L., 2012. Knowledge transfer in higher education: collaboration in the arts and humanities. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rawls, R. 1971. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge. MA.: Harvard University Press.

Sen, A., 1999. Development as Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sen, A. 1987. On Ethics and Economics. London: Blackwell.