Full Description
This collection of nine Fulbright educators' narrative accounts examines how these scholars navigated their teaching responsibilities with students, time with fellow colleagues, and cultural expectations in China, ranging from experience in teaching arts and government to questions of religion, emotional literacy, and urban infrastructure. With these contributions, authors analyze their own expectations against their actual experiences in order to offer insights for scholars and students of study abroad programming. As a roadmap for negotiating China's higher education network and for taking advantage of any cross-cultural educational environment, this book highlights the type of fruitful educational programming that can come from cultural, historical, economic, and political difference.
Contents
Introduction
. Shin Freedman, Pat Munday, Jeannette W. Cockroft
Lasting Impressions: Memories of a Fulbright Lecturer in China from 1980-1982. Tim Maciel
Transformations in Understanding: Lessons on Self and Culture from Teaching Abroad. Jesse Butler
Teaching Library and Information Science as a Fulbright Scholar: Reflections from a Lecturer's Notebook. Shin Freedman
This too is China: Hui Muslim culture and the Fulbright experience at Ningxia University. Pat Munday
Learning to See: A Fulbright Semester Teaching Painting in Beijing. Amy Cheng
Teaching American Government in the People's Republic of China. Jeannette W. Cockroft
Stoicism Unwound: Teaching About Emotional Literacy in China. Mary Ni
Beijing Musings: On rubbish management, masks, local delicacies and lecturing while living as a Fulbrighter. Michael Fetters
Experiencing Urban Infrastructure in Tianjin. Jonathan Ochshorn
