Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan

East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This work is a dialogue on alternative approaches to knowledge and higher education characteristic of the Western University. Western scholars approach these issues from the viewpoint of the challenges facing the university and Eastern contributors explore parallel issues in their societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315480206
• Artikelnr.: 49351526

Autorenporträt

Hayhoe, Ruth; Pan, Julia

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Context of the Dialogue
I: Cultural Interchange and the Construction of Knowledge
1. Cultural Differences and the Reception of University Disciplines
2. Chinese Mathematics and the West
3. Cultural Graft and Higher Education
4. Sinic Science
Postmodernism
and Knowledge: Rethinking Knowledge in the Social Sciences
5. English
Universities
and Struggles over Culture and Knowledge
II: The Media and Higher Education
6. Higher Education and the Western Media: Allies or Adversaries in Third World Coverage?
7. Media's Challenge to Higher Education
8. The Shifting World: A New Role for Media in Higher Education
III: Higher Education Evaluation
9. Evaluation as Construction of Knowledge
10. Quality and Local Knowledge: Evaluating Higher Education in Culturally Meaningful Ways
11. Chinese Higher-Education Evaluation: Status Quo
Problems
and Future Tendencies
12. Evaluation Issues in Contemporary Japanese Universities
IV: Historical Challenges to the University
13. Sufi Cosmology: An Indigenous Oral Tradition
14. The Sirhak Scholarship of the Yi Dynasty and Its Importance for Contemporary Higher Education in South Korea
15. The Shuyuan and the Development of Chinese Universities in the Early Twentieth Century
16. A Difficult Choice: Breaking Away from Soviet Educational Patterns
V: Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Higher Education
17. The Integration of Modern and Indigenous Knowledge Through Nonformal Education
18. Enhancing Students' Overall Quality and Promoting Society's All-Around Development
19. Lao Zi's Thought and Contemporary Chinese Higher Education
20. The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge and Contending Ideals ofthe University
Index