East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education

by Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563248337
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1996
Series:	East Gate Books
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Scholars from China, Africa, India, Pakistan, Korea, and Japan explore ways in which Eastern and European university structures can learn from each other. Section I lays out the philosophical parameters of the dialogue. Section II looks at the relation between the university and the global media networks. Section III discusses evaluation across cultures and types of institution. Section IV deals with historical challenges to the university within Eastern culture, and Section V examines the university's openness to indigenous knowledge. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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