Transnational Competence: Rethinking the U.S.-Japan Educational Relationship (SUNY series, Frontiers in Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791446328 ISBN 13: 9780791446324

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Offers the definitive study of United States-Japan educational exchange relationship.

Born out of a bilateral project between distinguished scholars in Japan and the United States, Transnational Competence provides a definitive and comprehensive study of the status of relations between these two countries in an educational context. The book covers a wide-ranging array of themes, from an analysis of the traditions of educational exchange, the role of grassroots organizations, the knowledge network, university exchanges, language competence and scientific and technical exchanges.

Contributors include Yoshiya Abe, Philip G. Altbach, Peggy Blumenthal, William K. Cummings, John N. Hawkins, Kazue Masuyama, Akimasa Mitsuta, Shigeru Nakayama, Tina Yamano Nisida, Yoshiro Tanaka, Toru Umakoshi, Roberta Wollons, and Richard J. Wood.

About this title

About the Author

John N. Hawkins , Professor of Comparative and International Education and former Dean of International Studies and Overseas Programs at UCLA, is coeditor of Development or Deterioration: Work in Rural Asia. William K. Cummings is Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education at the University at Buffalo. He is coeditor (with Philip Altbach) of Challenge of Eastern Asian Education, also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791446328
• ISBN 13: 9780791446324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Hawkins John N., Cummings William K.