Bridging transcultural divides : Asian languages and cultures in global highter education /

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Imprint:Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, ©2012.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396962
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Other authors / contributors:Song, Xianlin.
Cadman, Kate.
University of Adelaide Press.
ISBN:9781922064318
1922064319
9781922064301
1922064300
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary:This volume presents the diverse approaches and achievements of scholars of Asian cultures and languages in today's global academy. Recent vast increases in student numbers and ethnic diversity have created pressing challenges for a higher education which engages with contemporary concerns for Asian societies as well as for Asian students involved in Western education. This collection of scholarly analyses demonstrates the centrality and significance of Asian Studies and languages for these globalising academic communities. Significantly, it demands a rethinking of traditional 'intercultural' education. In so doing, it brings empirical knowledge as well as multicultural interpretation and multilingual expertise to throw new light on the challenges in higher education today, and to open up new understandings of the demands of the future. - Professor John Makeham Head, Department of Chinese Studies, The Australian National University.
Other form:Print version: Bridging transcultural divides. Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, ©2012 9781922064301
Standard no.:10.1017/9781922064318
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Another pedagogy is possible
  • Embracing the transcultural in higher education: An epistemological perspective / Kate Cadman and Xianlin Song
  • Part II. Re-locating teaching and learning
  • What are the implications for learning in Australian universities if and when the centre of the world shifts towards Asia? / Mobo Gao
  • (Post) Modern times: Transcultural exchange and the circumstances of postgraduate social science research / Greg McCarthy
  • Part III. Transforming curriculum in Asian language teaching
  • Teaching Asian languages from an intercultural perspective: Building bridges for and with students of Indonesian / Anthony J Liddicoat and Michelle Kohler
  • A Study Skills Action Plan: Integrating self-regulated learning in a diverse higher education context / Kayoko Enomoto
  • The challenge of motivation: Teaching Japanese Kanji characters to students from diverse language backgrounds / Naomi Aoki
  • Personal growth through intercultural communication: Engaging native speakers and reflective learning in Japanese language curriculum / Akiko Tomita
  • Part IV. Capitalising on Asian social and cultural studies in contexts of diversity
  • Increasing cultural flexibility: A psychological perspective on the purpose of intercultural education / Delia Lin
  • Reflections of a 'Korean' teaching about Japan in a globalising Australia / Sejin Pak
  • 1Critiquing critical thinking: Asia's contribution towards sociological conceptualisation / Shoko Yoneyama
  • Part V. Bridging learning gaps
  • Chinese culture and plagiarism: A convenient cause for an inconvenient issue in the academy / Ming Hwa Ting
  • Education with(out) distinction: Beyond graduate attributes for Chinese international students / Xianlin Song and Kate Cadman.