
Bridging Transcultural Divides
Asian Languages and Cultures in Global Higher Education
Xianlin Song(Author)
University of Adelaide Press
Published on 1. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
286 pages
978-1-922064-30-1 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Adelaide
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-922064-30-1 (9781922064301)
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