University-Community Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Public Benefits Beyond Individual Degrees

ISBN-13: 9783319452210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 126 str.

Christopher Collins

Opis

This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the authors discuss examples of engagement that produce consciousness, partnerships, and services that are broadly available to the public and enhance the progress of society. The authors argue that, unlike an individual degree, these are public benefits that should be focused upon and featured more readily so that the breadth of university benefits come to be better understood.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Defining Academic Public Good

Chapter 2. Post-Secondary Public Health Education: Its Meaning and Value beyond the Walls of the Academic Institution

Chapter 3. Continued Learning in an Aging Society: A University-Community Collaborative Educational Intervention in Taiwan

Chapter 4. Digital Heritage as a Rhetorical Tool for Community and Cultural Preservation

Chapter 5. Creative Tourism and University-Community Engagement: The Case of Trat Province, Thailand 

Chapter 6. The Impact of University-Community Projects: A Case Study at Vietnam National University 

Chapter 7. The Challenges and Benefits of Transnational Higher Education: A Case Study of Sino-foreign Cooperation University in China

Chapter 8. University-Community Connections and the Thai Concept of Sufficiency: The Case of 9 Boworn

O autorze

Christopher S. Collins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA, and Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the function of higher education in society and its role in social and economic progress.

Blurb

This edited volume creates a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the authors discuss examples of engagement that produce consciousness, partnerships, and services that are broadly available to the public and enhance the progress of society.  The authors argue that, unlike an individual degree, these are public benefits that should be focused upon and featured more readily so that the breadth of university benefits come to be better understood. 

Christopher S. Collins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA, and Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the function of higher education in society and its role in social and economic progress.