Presenting at the Congress of Humanities 2013..sharing a wonderful adventure

Check out Taneem's blog post about our adventure over to Victoria BC!

http://taneemtaneem.blogspot.ca/2013/05/week-91-we-did-it-csshe-conference-in.html

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, happens over the span of a week and 75 societies meet for their conferences and other society business.  Last year it was in Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario and next year it is back to Ontario at Brock University near Niagara.  I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to participate in this event so close to home.  

http://www.ideas-idees.ca/blog/one-last-look-back-congress-2013-my-top-7-highlights

This Washington Post news article addresses a study "The Heart of the Matter" and the importance of including the humanities and social sciences with STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics...

A liberal-arts education combined with STEM disciplines could improve innovation and inventiveness among the American workforce, according to the report, but there has been a diminished focus on, and funding for, humanities and social sciences. Parents are spending less time reading to children, history and humanities teachers aren’t as well trained as STEM teachers, and civic education has declined. In 2010, about 45 percent of high school students had a basic understanding of U.S. history, the report said.
 
Stephen Kidd, executive director of the National Humanities Alliance, said humanities and STEM education should not be mutually exclusive. For example, doctors are studying literature to help them better relate to patients and produce more coherent narratives for medical histories.
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/report-humanities-social-science-education-needed-along-with-stem/2013/06/18/76076df6-d83e-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html

Thanks so much Taneem for capturing our time together so well :)