Internationalising the University: The Chinese Context

ISBN-13: 9780230203518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 250 str.

Tricia Coverdale-Jones; Paul Rastall

Opis

The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing developments in the fields of institutional, social, management, curriculum and student concerns and changes.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cooperation with Chinese Universities – Issues and Trends; P.Rastall Conceptions of Internationalisation and their Implications for Academic Engagement and Institutional Action: A Preliminary Case Study; Y.Turner & S.Robson Chinese Universities' Motivations in Transnational Higher Education and their Implications for Higher Education Marketization; L.Zheng The Internationalisation of Higher Education in China: The Case of One University; J.Wang Global Connections – Local Impacts: Trends and Developments for Internationalism and Cross Border Higher Education; D.Olcott Jr. Using Policy Initiatives to Support Both Learning Enhancement and Language Enhancement at a Hong Kong University; C.Mcnaught & A.Curtis Cultivators, Cows and Computers:Chinese Learners' Metaphors of Teachers; M.Cortazzi , L.Jin ,& W.Zhiru The Dissonance Between Insider and Outsider Perspectives of the 'Chinese Problem': Implications for one of the UK's Largest Undergraduate Programmes; P.V.Smith & X.Zhou Decoding Students Value Orientations in Contemporary China; S.Yang Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Integration: An Investigation of Two Models; S.Devlin & N.Peacock Building on Experience: Meeting the Needs of Chinese Students in British Higher Education; V.Edwards & A.Ran Chinese Learners and Interactive Learning; W.Littlewood Afterword: Responses to Internationalisation in the UK and the International Context and a Survey on Responses to Intercultural Communication Teaching; T.Coverdale-Jones Index

O autorze

MARTIN CORTAZZI Visiting Professor in the CAL at Warwick University, UK ANDY CURTIS Director of the English Language Teaching Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) SIOBHAN DEVLIN Principal Lecturer, and Learning, Teaching and Assessment Manager, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, UK VIV EDWARDS Professor of Language in Education, University of Reading, UK LIXIAN JIN Reader in Linguistics& Health Communication, De Montfort University, UK WILLIAM LITTLEWOOD taught languages at secondary schools in the UK before taking up a post in teacher education at the University College of Swansea, UK CARMEL MCNAUGHT Director and Professor of Learning Enhancement, Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research (CLEAR), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong DON OLCOTT, JR. Chief Executive of The Observatory of Borderless Higher Education (OBHE), UK AN RAN Dean of School of International Education, South China University of Technology, China SUE ROBSON Head of the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK YVONNE TURNER Lecturer in Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK PAUL VINCENT SMITH Student Support Officer for the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK JUNJU WANG Professor of Applied Linguistics and Deputy Dean of the School of Foreign Languages of Shandong University, P.R. China SHU YANG Dean of the School of Foreign Studies of China University of Mining and Technology, China LIN ZHENG Business Tutor in English as a second language in the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK WANG ZHIRU Professor in English at Hubei University, China XIAOWEI ZHOU is at the School of Education, University of Manchester, UK.