Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education

by Chapman, David W.; Cummings, William K.; Postiglione, Gerard A.

• ISBN13: 9789628093984
• ISBN10: 9628093983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate.

Author Biography

David W. Chapman is the Birkmaier Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Organisational Leadership, Policy, and Development in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He has worked, in more than 45 developing countries, assisting national governments and international organizations in the areas of educational policy, and planning, program design and evaluation. The author of over 125 journal articles and book chapters, he was awarded a Fulbright New Century Scholars grant for the 2007-08; academic year. William K. Cummings is Professor of International Education and International Affairs at George Washington University. He has been involved, in development work for over 25 years, focusing on evaluation and monitoring, policy analysis,, sector assessment, management analysis, and teacher training. He has written extensively on the challenges of development and on models of successful development strategies, and has written or edited over 100 articles and 20 books or monographs. He is a past president of the Comparative and International Education Society. Gerard A. Postiglione is Professor and Head of the Division of Policy, Administration and Social Sciences Education, and Director of the Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He has published 10 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He has worked on higher education projects for the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Ford Foundation, and the Institute of International Education.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. vii
List of Tables	p. x
List of Figures	p. xii
Foreword	p. xiii
Transformations in Higher Education: Crossing Borders and Bridging Minds	p. 1
Issues and Perspectives
East Asian Knowledge Systems: Driving Ahead Amid Borderless Higher Education	p. 25
Is the Academic Center Shifting to Asia?	p. 47
China's Universities, Cross-Border Education, and Dialogue among Civilizations	p. 77
China's Global Adaptations
Adaptation of Globally Held Ideas about Research in China's Universities	p. 103
Educational Exchanges: What China Should Not Adopt from United States Higher Education	p. 127
China's Scholarship Program as a Form of Foreign Assistance	p. 145
Attitudes and Motivation in Second-Language Acquisition: A Study of International Students in China from a Cultural Perspective	p. 167
National Experiences
Japan's Internationalization of Higher Education: A Response to the Pressures of Globalization	p. 195
Korea's Internationalization of Higher Education: Process, Challenge and Strategy	p. 211
Borders Bridging Degrees: Harbin and Vladivostok's Dual-Degree Programs	p. 231
Comparative National Experiences
Transnational Higher Education in Japan and China: A Comparative Study	p. 265
Internationalizing Universities: Comparing China's Hong Kong and Singapore (1996-2006)	p. 283
The Hong Kong Crossing
Border Crossing and Market Integration: Mainland Consumers Meet Hong Kong Suppliers	p. 319
Adaptation of Mainland Postgraduate Students to Hong Kong's Universities	p. 343
Conclusion
East Asia's Experience of Border Crossing: Assessing Future Prospects	p. 377
Notes on the Authors	p. 383
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