East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education

Name: East-West Dialogue in Knowledge and Higher Education
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This work is a dialogue on alternative approaches to knowledge and higher education characteristic of the Western University. Western scholars approach these issues from the viewpoint of the challenges facing the university and Eastern contributors explore parallel issues in their societies. > This work is a dialogue on alternative approaches to knowledge and higher education characteristic of the Western University. Western scholars approach these issues from the viewpoint of the challenges facing the university and Eastern contributors explore parallel issues in their societies. > About the Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction: The Context of the Dialogue, I: Cultural Interchange and the Construction of Knowledge, 1. Cultural Differences and the Reception of University Disciplines, 2. Chinese Mathematics and the West, 3. Cultural Graft and Higher Education, 4. Sinic Science, Postmodernism, and Knowledge: Rethinking Knowledge in the Social Sciences, 5. English, Universix