This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate. The book' s focus is on how higher education systems learn from each other and on the ways in which they collaborate to address new challenges. The sub-theme that runs through this volume concerns the changing nature of cross-border sharing. In particular, the provision of technical assistance by more industrialized countries to lower and middle income countries has given way to collaborations that place the latter' s participating institutions on a more equal footing. At the same time, there is a greater number of partnerships that link higher education systems in the East Asian region to one another. Even as boundaries become more porous and permeable, there is growing acceptance of the view that cross border collaboration, if done well, can offer mutually beneficial advantages on multiple levels. There is a new recognition that the intensified international sharing of ideas, strategies of learning, and students is not only of enormous value to systems and institutions but essential to their long term survival. To this end, the chapters in this volume examine various motivations, goals, mechanisms, outcomes and challenges associated with cross-border collaboration in higher education.
Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education was awarded 1st place in the Annual Comparative and International Education Society's Higher Education SIG in the category Best in Book for 2009-2010 academic year.
Author(s): Prof. David W. Chapman, William K. Cummings, Gerard A. Postiglione (auth.), Prof. David W. Chapman, William K. Cummings, Gerard A. Postiglione (eds.)
Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 27
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 388
Tags: International and Comparative Education
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Transformations in Higher Education: Crossing Borders and Bridging Minds....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
East Asian Knowledge Systems: Driving Ahead Amid Borderless Higher Education....Pages 25-46
Is the Academic Center Shifting to Asia?....Pages 47-76
China’s Universities, Cross-Border Education, and Dialogue among Civilizations....Pages 77-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Adaptation of Globally Held Ideas about Research in China’s Universities....Pages 103-126
Educational Exchanges:What China Should Not Adopt from United States Higher Education....Pages 127-144
China’s Scholarship Program as a Form of Foreign Assistance....Pages 145-166
Attitudes and Motivation in Second-Language Acquisition: A Study of International Students in China from a Cultural Perspective 1 ....Pages 167-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Japan’s Internationalization of Higher Education: A Response to the Pressures of Globalization....Pages 195-210
Korea’s Internationalization of Higher Education: Process, Challenge and Strategy....Pages 211-229
Borders Bridging Degrees: Harbin and Vladivostok’s Dual-Degree Programs....Pages 231-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Transnational Higher Education in Japan and China: A Comparative Study....Pages 265-282
Internationalizing Universities:Comparing China’s Hong Kong and Singapore (1996–2006)....Pages 283-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Border Crossing and Market Integration:Mainland Consumers Meet Hong Kong Suppliers....Pages 319-342
Adaptation of Mainland Postgraduate Students to Hong Kong’s Universities....Pages 343-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
East Asia’s Experience of Border Crossing: Assessing Future Prospects....Pages 377-382
Back Matter....Pages 383-392
