Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education

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This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate. The book' s focus is on how higher education systems learn from each other and on the ways in which they collaborate to address new challenges. The sub-theme that runs through this volume concerns the changing nature of cross-border sharing. In particular, the provision of technical assistance by more industrialized countries to lower and middle income countries has given way to collaborations that place the latter' s participating institutions on a more equal footing. At the same time, there is a greater number of partnerships that link higher education systems in the East Asian region to one another. Even as boundaries become more porous and permeable, there is growing acceptance of the view that cross border collaboration, if done well, can offer mutually beneficial advantages on multiple levels. There is a new recognition that the intensified international sharing of ideas, strategies of learning, and students is not only of enormous value to systems and institutions but essential to their long term survival. To this end, the chapters in this volume examine various motivations, goals, mechanisms, outcomes and challenges associated with cross-border collaboration in higher education. Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education was awarded 1st place in the Annual Comparative and International Education Society's Higher Education SIG in the category Best in Book for 2009-2010 academic year. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Transformations in Higher Education: Crossing Borders and Bridging Minds....Pages 1-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 East Asian Knowledge Systems: Driving Ahead Amid Borderless Higher Education....Pages 25-46 Is the Academic Center Shifting to Asia?....Pages 47-76 China’s Universities, Cross-Border Education, and Dialogue among Civilizations....Pages 77-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Adaptation of Globally Held Ideas about Research in China’s Universities....Pages 103-126 Educational Exchanges:What China Should Not Adopt from United States Higher Education....Pages 127-144 China’s Scholarship Program as a Form of Foreign Assistance....Pages 145-166 Attitudes and Motivation in Second-Language Acquisition: A Study of International Students in China from a Cultural Perspective 1 ....Pages 167-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 Japan’s Internationalization of Higher Education: A Response to the Pressures of Globalization....Pages 195-210 Korea’s Internationalization of Higher Education: Process, Challenge and Strategy....Pages 211-229 Borders Bridging Degrees: Harbin and Vladivostok’s Dual-Degree Programs....Pages 231-261 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Transnational Higher Education in Japan and China: A Comparative Study....Pages 265-282 Internationalizing Universities:Comparing China’s Hong Kong and Singapore (1996–2006)....Pages 283-315 Front Matter....Pages 317-317 Border Crossing and Market Integration:Mainland Consumers Meet Hong Kong Suppliers....Pages 319-342 Adaptation of Mainland Postgraduate Students to Hong Kong’s Universities....Pages 343-373 Front Matter....Pages 375-375 East Asia’s Experience of Border Crossing: Assessing Future Prospects....Pages 377-382 Back Matter....Pages 383-392