East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education

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ISBN: 9781563248337 | 1563248336
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Copyright: 5/31/1996

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About the Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction the Context of the Dialogue	p. 3
References	p. 14
Cultural Interchange and the Construction of Knowledge	p. 15
Cultural Differences and the Reception of University Disciplines	p. 17
References	p. 24
Chinese Mathematics and the West	p. 26
Note	p. 41
References	p. 41
Cultural Graft and Higher Education	p. 50
Sinic Science, Postmodernism, and Knowledge: Rethinking Knowledge in the Social Sciences	p. 62
English, Universities, and Struggles Over Culture and Knowledge	p. 79
The Media and Higher Education	p. 81
Higher Education and the Western Media: Allies or Adversaries in Third World Coverage?	p. 83
References	p. 88
Media's Challenge to Higher Education	p. 101
The Shifting World: a New Role for Media in Higher Education	p. 102
Notes	p. 112
References	p. 112
Higher Education Evaluation	p. 115
Evaluation as Construction of Knowledge	p. 117
References	p. 139
Quality and Local Knowledge: Evaluating Higher Education in Culturally Meaningful Ways	p. 155
Chinese Higher-Education Evaluation: Status Quo, Problems, and Future Tendencies	p. 156
Notes	p. 175
References	p. 176
Evaluation Issues in Contemporary Japanese Universities	p. 191
Hitorical Challenges to the University	p. 193
Sun Cosmology: an Indigenous Oral Tradition	p. 195
Notes	p. 204
Reference	p. 205
The Sirhak Scholarship of the Yi Dynasty and Its Importance for Contemporary Higher Education in South Korea	p. 206
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 217
The Shuyuan and the Development of Chinese Universities in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 218
Notes	p. 241
References	p. 243
A Difficult Choice: Breaking Away from Soviet Educational Patterns	p. 255
Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Higher Education	p. 257
The Integration of Modern and Indigenous Knowledge Through Nonformal Education	p. 259
References	p. 264
Enhancing Students' Overall Quality and Promoting Society's All-Around Development	p. 278
Lao B's Thought and Contemporary Chinese Higher Education	p. 280
Note	p. 294
References	p. 294
The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge and Contending Ideals of the University	p. 296
Selected References	p. 306
Notes	p. 306
Index	p. 309
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East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education

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