Education and Global Cultural Dialogue A Tribute to Ruth Hayhoe

by Mundy, Karen; Zha, Qiang

• ISBN13: 9780230340107
• ISBN10: 0230340105
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-24
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Cultural and spiritual resources are arguably essential to achievement of educational goals, both as economic and political initiatives and as human rights. Thisbookaddresses questions surrounding education and inter-cultural understanding in a broad global framework.

Author Biography

Karen Mundy is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her award-winning research has focused on the politics of international education assistance in the developing world, educational reform in Africa, the role of civil society advocacy in educational systems, and the issue of global education in North American schools. Her recent research, published in more than two dozen journal articles and chapters and in five co-edited volumes, is concentrated on the evolution of global efforts to ensure 'education for all'; the role of the World Bank in education; and civil society activism in Africa. Mundy has been a consultant for, or carried out sponsored research for, such organizations as UNICEF, UNESCO, Hewlett Foundation, the World Bank, MasterCard Foundation, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Open Society Institute, UNESCO, and USAID. She is also the founder and co-chair of the Canadian Global Campaign for Education, a coalition of NGOs, teachers' unions, and universities committed to advancing education for all. Qiang Zha is an Associate Professor on the Faculty of Education, York University, UK. His research interests include international academic relations, global brain circulation, globalization and education, internationalization of higher education, East Asian and Chinese higher education, differentiation and diversity in higher education, theories of organizational change, and issues with new immigrants' settlement. He has written and published widely on these topics in journals such as Compare, Higher Education, Higher Education in Europe, and Harvard China Review, as well as in book chapters. In 2004, he was a co-recipient of the inaugural IAU/Palgrave Prize on Higher Education Policy Research. His most recent books include Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education (with Ruth Hayhoe, Jun Li, and Jing Lin, 2011), and an edited volume, Education in China: A Handbook of Educational History, Models, and Initiatives (2012).

Table of Contents

PART I: COMPARATIVE EDUCATION, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIALOGUE ACROSS CULTURES
From International Relations in Education to the Study of Global Governance: Ruth Hayhoe's Legacy; K.Mundy
Meaning Making in Cultural Experience: Insights from Ruth Hayhoe for Interpreting Internationalization and Localization in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore; W.O.Lee
And the Boys Took It Up for Themselves: Scouting, Learning and Dialogue Across Cultures; J.P.Farrell
Historicizing Comparative and International Education, and Internationalizing History of Education: A Personal Reflection on Ruth Hayhoe's Call for Cultural Dialogue; Y.T.Chia
Humanizing Globalization: Five Scholars Bridge East and West through Comparative and International Education; H.Ross & Y.Wang
PART II: CHINESE HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE WORLD
Transnational Higher Education in China: Towards a Critical Culturalist Research Agenda; Q.Zha
Education and Global Cultural Dialogue: Analyses of the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora at a Major Canadian University; R.Yang
What are the Implications of a Chinese University Model?; H.Wang
Achieving Balance among Competing Challenges in Chinese Higher Education; R.F.Arnove
One Hundred Years in Pursuit: The Idea of University Autonomy in China; N.Zhong
PART III: INQUIRIES INTO CHINESE EDUCATION INSPIRED BY RUTH HAYHOE
Childhood, Youth, and Globalization: Some Theoretical Perspectives with Reflections on China; I.Epstein
Sustainable International Cross-cultural Collaboration: Transcending 'Brain Drain' and 'Borrowing' Models; V.Seeberg & H.Qiang
Parallel and Diverging Paths: Hong Kong Higher Education and Ruth Hayhoe; D.Post
Hong Kong's Potential for Global Educational Dialogue: Retrospective and Vision; R.Hayhoe