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Remaking Area Studies : Teaching and Learning across Asia and the Pacific / ed. by Jon Goss, Terence Wesley-Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824833213
  • 9780824860530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 950.071/1
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Remaking area studies -- Part I: Reshaping Area Studies in an Era of Globalization -- 1. Asia Pacific Studies in an Age of Global Modernity -- 2. Remapping Area Knowledge: Beyond Global/Local -- 3. Locating Asia Pacific -- Part II: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific -- 4. The Evolution of "Area Studies" in Japan -- 5. The Development of Asia Pacific Studies: A Case Study of Internationalization in Japanese Higher Education -- 6. For or Before an Asia Pacific Studies Agenda? -- 7. Institutional Collaborations: People, Politics, Policy -- Part III: Asia Pacific Learning Communities -- 8. Traveling Cultures: Tourism and the Virtual Classroom in Hawai'i and Singapore -- 9. Chinatown and the Virtual Classroom in Singapore and Hawai'i -- 10. Salaam Mānoa, Aloha Mindanao: Creating a Student- Centered, Real-Time, Virtual Classroom -- 11. E-Learning and the Remaking of Pacific Studies: An Evolutionary Tale -- Epilogue: Remaking Asia Pacific Studies -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary: This collection identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in this era of globalization, focusing in particular on conceptual issues and implications for pedagogical practice in Asia and the Pacific. The crisis in area studies is widely acknowledged; various prescriptions for solutions have been forthcoming, but few have also pursued practical applications of critical ideas for both teachers and students. Remaking Area Studies not only makes the case for more culturally sensitive and empowering forms of area studies, but indicates how these ideas can be translated into effective student-centered learning practices through the establishment of interactive regional learning communities.This pathbreaking work features original contributions from leading theorists of globalization and critics of area studies as practiced in the U.S. Essays in the first part of the book problematize the accepted categories of traditional area-making practices. Taken together, they provide an alternative conceptual framework for area studies that informs the subsequent contributions on pedagogical practices. To incorporate critical perspectives from the "areas studied," chapters examine the development of area studies programs in Japan and the Pacific Islands. Not surprisingly, given the lessons learned from critical examinations of area studies in the U.S., there are competing, state, institutional, and intellectual perspectives involved in each of these contexts that need to be taken into account before embarking on an interactive and collaborative area studies across Pacific Asia.Finally, area studies practitioners reflect on their experiences developing and teaching interactive, web-based courses linking classrooms in six universities located in Hawai'i, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji. These collaborative on-line teaching and learning initiatives were designed specifically to address some of the conceptual and theoretical concerns associated with the production and dissemination of contemporary area studies knowledge. Multiauthored chapters draw useful lessons for international collaborative learning in an era of globalization, both in terms of their successes and occasional failures.Uniquely combining theoretical, institutional, and practical perspectives across the Asia Pacific region, Remaking Area Studies contributes to a rethinking and reinvigorating of regional approaches to knowledge formation in higher education.Contributors: Conrado Balabat, Lonny Carlile, T. C. Chang, Hezekiah A. Concepcion, Arif Dirlik, Jeremy Eades, Gerard Finin, Jon Goss, Peter Hempenstall, Lily Kong, Lisa Law, Martin W. Lewis, Robert Nicole, Neil Smith, Teresia Teaiwa, Ricardo Trimillos, Christine Yano, Terence Wesley-Smith.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Remaking area studies -- Part I: Reshaping Area Studies in an Era of Globalization -- 1. Asia Pacific Studies in an Age of Global Modernity -- 2. Remapping Area Knowledge: Beyond Global/Local -- 3. Locating Asia Pacific -- Part II: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific -- 4. The Evolution of "Area Studies" in Japan -- 5. The Development of Asia Pacific Studies: A Case Study of Internationalization in Japanese Higher Education -- 6. For or Before an Asia Pacific Studies Agenda? -- 7. Institutional Collaborations: People, Politics, Policy -- Part III: Asia Pacific Learning Communities -- 8. Traveling Cultures: Tourism and the Virtual Classroom in Hawai'i and Singapore -- 9. Chinatown and the Virtual Classroom in Singapore and Hawai'i -- 10. Salaam Mānoa, Aloha Mindanao: Creating a Student- Centered, Real-Time, Virtual Classroom -- 11. E-Learning and the Remaking of Pacific Studies: An Evolutionary Tale -- Epilogue: Remaking Asia Pacific Studies -- About the Contributors -- Index

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This collection identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in this era of globalization, focusing in particular on conceptual issues and implications for pedagogical practice in Asia and the Pacific. The crisis in area studies is widely acknowledged; various prescriptions for solutions have been forthcoming, but few have also pursued practical applications of critical ideas for both teachers and students. Remaking Area Studies not only makes the case for more culturally sensitive and empowering forms of area studies, but indicates how these ideas can be translated into effective student-centered learning practices through the establishment of interactive regional learning communities.This pathbreaking work features original contributions from leading theorists of globalization and critics of area studies as practiced in the U.S. Essays in the first part of the book problematize the accepted categories of traditional area-making practices. Taken together, they provide an alternative conceptual framework for area studies that informs the subsequent contributions on pedagogical practices. To incorporate critical perspectives from the "areas studied," chapters examine the development of area studies programs in Japan and the Pacific Islands. Not surprisingly, given the lessons learned from critical examinations of area studies in the U.S., there are competing, state, institutional, and intellectual perspectives involved in each of these contexts that need to be taken into account before embarking on an interactive and collaborative area studies across Pacific Asia.Finally, area studies practitioners reflect on their experiences developing and teaching interactive, web-based courses linking classrooms in six universities located in Hawai'i, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji. These collaborative on-line teaching and learning initiatives were designed specifically to address some of the conceptual and theoretical concerns associated with the production and dissemination of contemporary area studies knowledge. Multiauthored chapters draw useful lessons for international collaborative learning in an era of globalization, both in terms of their successes and occasional failures.Uniquely combining theoretical, institutional, and practical perspectives across the Asia Pacific region, Remaking Area Studies contributes to a rethinking and reinvigorating of regional approaches to knowledge formation in higher education.Contributors: Conrado Balabat, Lonny Carlile, T. C. Chang, Hezekiah A. Concepcion, Arif Dirlik, Jeremy Eades, Gerard Finin, Jon Goss, Peter Hempenstall, Lily Kong, Lisa Law, Martin W. Lewis, Robert Nicole, Neil Smith, Teresia Teaiwa, Ricardo Trimillos, Christine Yano, Terence Wesley-Smith.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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