Full Description
The book discusses the internationalizing of education and what educators need to think about in moving abroad to teach and to do in creating an imaginative and successful cross-cultural classroom.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Internationalizing EducationDevelopment of Chinese Universities in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Lingering Structural Constraints: Financial, Ideological, and Linguistic; Curriculum Reform; American Studies; Interdisciplinary Inquiry and "American-Style" Teaching; The Market Economy and the Flight from Arts and Social Sciences; International Collaboration and Faculty Exchange; Library and Internet Resources; 2. The Individual, the Group, and Pedagogy; The Pedagogy of the East; The Pedagogy of the West; 3. The Classroom Environment: Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual Spaces; Physical Spaces; Three Spaces for Teaching: Lecture, Seminar, and Circle; Emotional and Intellectual Spaces: Ideology, Race, Ethnicity, Class, Family, Gender, Religion, and Age; 4. The Teacher-Oriented Classroom; One Teacher/One Classroom; Team Teaching and Interdisciplinarity: Many Teachers/One Classroom; Classroom Tools for Lecturing; 5. The Student-Oriented Classroom; Problem Solving, Group Work, and Presentations; Shared Responsibilities for Groups and Teams; Extending the Boundaries of the Student-Centered Classroom; 6. Film in the Cross-Cultural Classroom; Film and Cultural Contexts; Film Adaptation as a Cross-Cultural Tool; 7. Assignments and Assessments; Appropriate Kinds and Levels of Assignments; Cultural Considerations in Student Assessments and Marks; Cultural Considerations and Plagiarism; Classroom Assessment; 8. Conclusion: Descent, Consent, and Cross-Cultural Affiliations; Cross-Cultural Affiliated Identities; Affiliated Identity and Cultural Markers in the Classroom; Blending Creative Opposites: The Best of All Possible Worlds?
