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Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific
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Hardcover. Identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in an era of globalization, focusing in particular on conceptual issues and implications for pedagogical practice in Asia and the Pacific. This book makes the case for more culturally sensitive and empowering forms of area studies. Editor(s): Wesley-Smith, Terence; Goss, Jon. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MK; GTB; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
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. ""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 path breaking work features original contributions from leading theorists of globalization and critics of area studies as currently practiced in the U.S. Essays in the first ... Read more
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. ""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 path breaking work features original contributions from leading theorists of globalization and critics of area studies as currently practiced in the U.S. Essays in the first ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824833213
SKU
V9780824833213
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About
Terence Wesley-Smith is associate professor and graduate chair at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i. Jon Goss is professor of geography and director of the Honors Program at the University of Hawai'i.
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