Bridging Transcultural Divides
Subtitle: Asian Languages and Cultures in Global Higher Education
By: edited by Xianlin Song, Kate Cafman
Contributors: Kate Cadman (ed.); Xianlin Song (ed.)
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: North Terrace
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Oriental languages; Study and teaching (Highter); Asia; Civilization
Description: 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 MakehamHead, Department of Chinese Studies, The Australian National University
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.283-286).

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