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Title Bridging transcultural divides : Asian languages and cultures in global highter education / edited by Xianlin Song and Ket Cadman
Published Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Analysis social studies
cultural studies
pedagogy
language curriculum
chinese
transcultural exchange
indonesian
study skills
plagiarism
asian languages
globalisation
japanese
australian universities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 9, 2020)
Subject Oriental languages -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Education.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
Civilization -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Oriental languages -- Study and teaching (Higher)
SUBJECT Asia -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Australia
Asia -- Civilization -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Subject Asia
Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Song, Xianlin
Cadman, Kate
University of Adelaide Press.
ISBN 9781922064318
1922064319